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Work InformationThe Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Connelly is a fairly new author for me and this Jack McEvoy and Rachel Waling book was a winner. It’s a fast moving action thriller even though the plot required substantial suspension of disbelief. McEvoy is a journalist who is being let go because not only has the delivery of news changed, but he costs more than the new kids in the business. Together with Waling, an FBI agent, they pair work on identifying the murderer responsible for a grisly series of murdered women. McEvoy believes he has the makings of a great story and the paper will beg him to come back. Complex and gripping. ( ) I'm not sure if it's the "reporter pretending to be a detective" theme or the main characters having a job then not having a job then having a job again (maybe) or if it's just the large number of flights to and from different places that I find tiring. It's not a bad story, and the data security piece is interesting enough, but how everything unfolds feels a little tedious. This was a pleasant surprise; I read The Poet a while back, and enjoyed it, but not really as much as some of his other books. This one, however, was outstanding. I had trouble putting it down. Fortunately, it was an audiobook, so I could spend a lot of time with it. Much of what happens in the book is realistic to me, and could conceivably happen. I thought it shows a good understanding of how the web works, especially the way the villain was able to find out when someone was possibly on to him. This villain was pretty scary mainly because he was clever, and was often a step or two ahead of his adversaries, although not quite as ahead as he hoped.
Read this thriller for the thrills, the computerized crime spree. Or read it for the sad reality of what's happening to almost all newspapers. Or read it to take in the work of a writer who can tell a gripping story through characters who live and breathe. A return to form for Mr. Connelly and his sharpest book since “The Lincoln Lawyer”... “The Scarecrow” begins its crime plot routinely, with more emphasis on the press than on the investigation. Then it gets jacked up to a high level of suspense by the Scarecrow’s sinister powers in the Internet’s darker reaches. And then it turns back into something familiar, as Mr. Connelly allows the long-range demands of his career to diminish this particular book’s ending. Belongs to SeriesHarry Bosch Universe (19) Jack McEvoy (2) Rachel Walling (5) Belongs to Publisher SeriesIs abridged inAwardsDistinctions
Newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to use his final days at the LA Times to write the definitive murder story of his career. Focusing on the case of Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder, Jack realizes that Winslow's so-called confession is bogus and that the real killer is operating completely below police radar--and with perfect knowledge of any move against him. No library descriptions found. |
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Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. Hachette Book Group6 editions of this book were published by Hachette Book Group. Editions: 1600245749, 0316043672, 0316166308, 1600245714, 1600248322, 044640120X |