The Poet - Michael Connelly

A fantastic serial murder whodunit. I thought I had this murderer pegged three times and...I was wrong. No, just because the name of the book is "The Poet", the killer was not Robert Frost or T.S. Eliot. Although, "The Poet" does leave evidence in the form of poems from another famous poet.

Connelly jumps away from his every day detective hero, Harry Bosch, in this book and picks up on an (I think) more interesting character. Jack McEvoy is a Denver crime reporter with the stickiest assignment of his career. His twin brother, homicide detective Sean McEvoy, was found dead in his car from a self-inflicted bullet wound to the head--an Edgar Allen Poe quote smeared on the windshield.

That is all I am giving you. It is a fantastic book...if you like this genre.

I am about 1/2 way through the follow up to The Poet called The Narrows. So far it is pretty good but not up to speed with The Poet. Harry Bosch picks up where McEvoy left off. Can't say more here because I want you to read The Poet and not know the ending!

I have read one other by Connelly called City of Bones. Also, ok, but not in line with The Poet. He really pulled The Poet out of thin air and it worked!

Read it, you will not be disappointed.