![]() ![]() Connelly would later write another Jack McEvoy novel, The Scarecrow, and still later a third McEvoy novel, Fair Warning. The two stories converge when the FBI zeroes in on Gladden as the killer and sets up a trap.Įight years later Connelly returned to the Poet story in a sequel, The Narrows. The FBI takes over the investigation, and brings Jack along, which leads to romance when Jack meets attractive FBI agent Rachel Walling.Ī parallel story follows William Gladden, a murderous pedophile who makes his living selling child pornography on the dark Internet. ![]() The killer makes a habit of quoting Edgar Allan Poe works, which earns him the nickname of "The Poet". It turns out that there is a serial killer going around the country targeting homicide cops. He is skeptical of the suicide theory and eventually discovers that sure enough, Sean's death was a carefully planned murder. Jack resolves to write about his brother's death. His world is rocked when his twin brother Sean, a homicide cop, kills himself by a bullet to the head. Instead, the main character is Jack McEvoy, a newspaper reporter who specializes in the crime beat and, specifically, murder. ![]() It was Connelly's fifth novel and the first that didn't feature his most frequent protagonist, LAPD detective Harry Bosch. ![]() The Poet is a 1996 mystery novel by Michael Connelly. ![]()
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