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. ( )

A good example of Connelly's writing style. You are in the story form the first page, no mucking around. ( )

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. ( )

Newspaper reporter Jack McEvoy works on his final story for the New York times. In an attempt to prove the innocence of a young drug dealer for a recent murder, he discovers a connection to a serial killer.