In another book written by many authors, it could have been a 'no-no' for me but this author pulls it off.

The book opens with the apparent suicide of McEvoy's twin brother, Sean, a Denver homicide detective. The most common is third person, multiple points of view and this applies to movies, TV drama's and novels. The pattern tells Jack that there were actually two different types of murders: the sex killings of children, and the murders made to look like suicides; and always of police officers that were lead investigators of a case. Cuando su hermano policía es hallado muerto, supuestamente suicidado, decide investigar por su cuenta al darse cuenta que no es el único policía muerto de esa forma. The book was published in June of 1996, and won the 1997 Dilys Award (for Connelly's second consecutive Dilys win, after 1996's The Last Coyote), the 1997 Anthony Award, and the 1997 Nero Award.As Backus prepares to sodomize and then kill Jack, Rachel appears and knocks Backus out the window and down a long hill. Alternately exciting and absurd, full of outrageous plot holes, with a protagonist who seems lost much of the time. The narrator was fine but I associate Buck Schirner with the Monkeewrench series so that was a distraction. Also: I was nodding off over the trifling details in the conversations among the various characters; the book easily could have been pared back by a third, or so. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Out of time" He begins to investigate the possible meaning in that message and in the process uncovers other deaths and other quotes, left by a suicidal hand. So six years after Robert Backus disappeared into the dark I made the decision to go back into that darkness to find him.Sean had been investigating the homicide of an attractive young woman and it was assumed by all the failure to track down the 'doer' had contributed to Sean taking his own life. I missed out on Jack McEvoy when I discovered Michael Connelly a few years ago; concentrating on the excellent Harry Bosch series (rather than the "Harry Bosch Universe"). A skilled and resourceful investigative reporter, Jack uncovers a series of puzzling contradictions. I also didn't like the relationship with Rachel, probably because Jack was questioning it and her almost immediately about what did it mean and were they together.

In “The Poet”, one of Connelly’s characters, a seasoned FBI agent named Rachel Walling, expresses similar views to the protagonist, Jack McEvoy.He is going to go out with a bang: a final story that will win the newspaper journalism’s highest honour – a Pulitzer Prize. From an objective standpoint, the killer’s life is a sad one, and he appears (like almost all pedophiles) to have been a victim of gross sexual abuse as a child himself. But when he’s told his twin brother, a homicide cop, is dead, an apparent suicide, Jack isn’t ready to accept that and begins to look into other police officer deaths deemed to be suicides. Prior to having my child, I was, perhaps, somewhat of a “bleeding heart” liberal and a Christian in my views toward pedophiles: maybe they CAN be rehabilitated and cured of their sickness, and it is the judicial system’s and the church’s duty to try.