Denver Post crime-beat reporter Jack McEvoy specializes in violent death. So when his homicide-detective brother kills himself, McEvoy copes in the only way he knows how: he starts work on an investigative report about police suicides. But soon his research reveals a sinister pattern-"suicides" by detectives in other cities that are strikingly similar to his brother's. McEvoy suspects a serial murderer is at work-a devious cop killer who's left a trail of poetic clues. It's the news story of a lifetime-except that "the Poet" already seems to know that McEvoy is trailing him....
In the tradition of Thomas Harris and Patricia Cornwell, this bone-chilling tale from Edgar-Award winner Michael Connelly is a masterful psychological thriller in which a journalist uncovers the trail of a serial killer with an unlikely choice of victims - homicide detectives.
About the Author
Michael Connelly is a veteran journalist who was a police reporter for The Los Angeles Times. THE POET is his fifth novel.
