Newspaper Reporter Jack McEvoy is having a hard time coping with the suicide of his twin brother, Detective Sean McEvoy. Sean was found in his police vehicle, dead from a gunshot wound. A short note was scrawled on the windshield. Jack tries to deal with the situations by writing his brother's story. But research into police suicides leads Jack to believe that his brother may have been murdered. Jack begins to see a pattern between a series of homicide detective deaths. They were all working on unsolved homicides involving children. All were declared suicides, and all left a short note that contained a line of poetry written by Edgar Allen Poe.
When Jack gives the FBI the information he has dug up, he makes a deal that he will be part of their investigation and write the exclusive story when they arrest the Poet. This gives the reader first-hand information about the case from a character who is not a cop. I thought that gave the mystery a very different feel. Michael Connelly has written an excellent mystery. I latched onto the person I thought was the killer early in the book, but I was wrong. I highly recommend this story. My rating: 4.5 Stars.
When Jack gives the FBI the information he has dug up, he makes a deal that he will be part of their investigation and write the exclusive story when they arrest the Poet. This gives the reader first-hand information about the case from a character who is not a cop. I thought that gave the mystery a very different feel. Michael Connelly has written an excellent mystery. I latched onto the person I thought was the killer early in the book, but I was wrong. I highly recommend this story. My rating: 4.5 Stars.
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