The Poet

By Michael Connelly

Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

The Poet is a 1996 thriller by Michael Connelly, the author of the Harry Bosch novels. It introduced the reporter Jack McEvoy, who returned in later books. Jack McEvoy, a crime reporter at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, cannot accept that his twin brother, a homicide detective, killed himself. Investigating, he finds a pattern of police suicides across the country, each leaving a note quoting Edgar Allan Poe, and joins the FBI in hunting a serial killer.

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