Michael Connelly: The Poet

Michael Connelly: The Poet (USA 2020)

From the Publisher:
From the #1 bestselling author of the Harry Bosch and Lincoln Lawyer series -- an electrifying standalone thriller that breaks all the rules! With an introduction by Stephen King.

Death is reporter Jack McEvoy's beat: his calling, his obsession. But this time, death brings McEvoy the story he never wanted to write–and the mystery he desperately needs to solve. A serial killer of unprecedented savagery and cunning is at large. His targets: homicide cops, each haunted by a murder case he couldn't crack. The killer's calling card: a quotation from the works of Edgar Allan Poe. His latest victim is McEvoy's own brother. And his last may be McEvoy himself.

Michael Connelly: The Poet. With an Introduction by Stephen King. Grand Central Publishing, ISBN: 9781538718667 (March, 2020), 656 p., $9.99.

Michael Connelly: The Poet (USA 2017)

From the Publisher:
From Michael Connelly, the #1 bestselling author of the Harry Bosch series and Lincoln Lawyer series
An electrifying standalone thriller that breaks all the rules! With an introduction by Stephen King.

Death is reporter Jack McEvoy's beat: his calling, his obsession. But this time, death brings McEvoy the story he never wanted to write -- and the mystery he desperately needs to solve. A serial killer of unprecedented savagery and cunning is at large. His targets: homicide cops, each haunted by a murder case he couldn't crack. The killer's calling card: a quotation from the works of Edgar Allan Poe. His latest victim is McEvoy's own brother. And his last... may be McEvoy himself.

Michael Connelly: The Poet. With an Introduction by Stephen King. Grand Central Publishing, ISBN: 9781478948315 (September, 2017), 528 p., $9.99.

Michael Connelly: The Poet (USA 2017)

Michael Connelly: The Poet. With an Introduction by Stephen King. Grand Central Publishing, ISBN: 9781478948308 (September, 2017), 608 p., $15.99.

Michael Connelly: The Poet (UK 2009)

From the Publisher:
A cunning, poet-quoting serial killer of unprecedented savagery executes one homicide cop after another... An unputdownable thriller from the award-winning No.1 bestselling author

The apparent suicide of his policeman brother sets Denver crime reporter Jack McEvoy on edge. Surprise at the circumstances of his brother's death prompts Jack to look into a whole series of police suicides and puts him on the trail of a cop-killer whose victims are selected all too carefully. Not only that, but they all leave suicide notes drawn from the poems of writer Edgar Allan Poe in their wake.

More frightening still the killer appears to know that Jack is getting nearer and nearer. An investigation that looks like being the story of a lifetime, might also be Jack's ticket to a lonely end.

Michael Connelly: The Poet. Orion Books, ISBN: 9781409116936 (April, 2009), 512 p., £7.99.

Michael Connelly: The Poet (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
With his four Harry Bosch novels, Michael Connelly joined "the top rank of a new generation of crime writers" (Los Angeles Times). Now Connelly returns with his most searing thriller yet - a major new departure that recalls the best work of Thomas Harris (Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs) and James Patterson (Along Came a Spider).

Our hero is Jack McEvoy, a Rocky Mountain News crime-beat reporter. As the novel opens, Jack's twin brother, a Denver homicide detective, has just killed himself. Or so it seems. But when Jack begins to investigate the phenomenon of police suicides, a disturbing pattern emerges, and soon suspects that a serial murderer is at work - a devious cop killer who's left a coast-to-coast trail of "suicide notes" drawn from the poems of Edgar Allan Poe. It's the story of a lifetime - except that "the Poet" already seems to know that Jack is trailing him...

Here is definitive proof that Michael Connelly is among the best suspense novelist working today.

Michael Connelly: The Poet. With an Introduction by Stephen King. Warner Books, ISBN: 0446690457 (July, 2002), 608 p., $14.95.

Michael Connelly: The Poet (UK 1997)

From the Publisher:
An unputadownable thriller from a top rank bestselling author - this will become a classic. The apparent suicide of his policeman brother sets Denver crime reporter Jack McEvoy on edge. Surprise at the circumstance of his brothers death prompts Jack to look into a whole series of Police suicides and puts him on the trail of a cop killer whose victimsare selected all too carefully. Not only that, but they all leave suicide notes drawn from the poems of writer Edgar Allan Poe in their wake. More frightening still the killer appears to know that Jack is getting nearer and nearer. An investigation that looks like being the story of a lifetime, might also be Jack's ticket to a lonely end.

Michael Connelly: The Poet. Orion, ISBN: 0752809261 (May, 1997), 481 p., £6.99.

Michael Connelly: The Poet (USA 1997)

From the Publisher:
From The Black Echo to The Concrete Blonde to The Last Coyote, Michael Connelly has written one explosive thriller after another featuring Detective Harry Bosch. Now, in an electrifying departure, he presents a novel that breaks all the rules and will keep your heart racing and your mind guessing until the very last page.

Death is reporter Jack McEvoy's beat: his calling, his obsession. But this time, death brings McEvoy the story he never wanted to write-and the mystery he desperately needs to solve. A serial killer of unprecedented savagery and cunning is at large. His targets: homicide cops, each haunted by a murder case he couldn't crack. The killer's calling card: a quotation from the works of Edgar Allan Poe. His latest victim is McEvoy's own brother. And his last... may be McEvoy himself.

Michael Connelly: The Poet. Warner Books, ISBN: 0446602612 (January, 1997), 512 p., $7.99.

Michael Connelly: The Poet (USA 1996)

From the Publisher:
Jack McEvoy specializes in death. As a crime reporter for the Rocky Mountain News, he has seen every kind of murder. But his professional bravado doesn't lessen the brutal shock of learning that his only brother is dead, a suicide.

Jack's brother was a homicide detective, and he had been depressed about a recent murder case, a hideously grisly one, that he'd been unable to solve.

McEvoy decides that the best way to exorcise his grief is by writing a feature on police suicides. But when he begins his research, he quickly arrives at a stunning revelation. Following his leads, protecting his sources, muscling his way inside a federal investigation, Jack grabs hold of what is clearly the story of a lifetime. He also knows that in taking on the story, he's making himself the most visible target for a murderer who has eluded the greatest investigators alive.

Michael Connelly: The Poet. Little, Brown, & Co., ISBN: 0316153982 (January, 1996), 434 p., $22.00.