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The Poet Audio CD – CD, January 30, 2010

by Michael Connelly (Author), Buck Schirner (Reader)

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FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HARRY BOSCH AND LINCOLN LAWYER SERIES

An electrifying standalone thriller that breaks all the rules!

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.

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English
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Brilliance Audio
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January 30, 2010
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5.25 x 0.25 x 5.75 inches
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9781441808295
ISBN-13

978-1441808295
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"Prepare to be played like a violin. Connelly writes suspense out of every possible aspect of Jack's obsessive hunt for his brother's killer." ―Kirkus Reviews

"TERRIFYINGLY REALISTIC....Connelly's plotting is near flawless....The Poet ranks with Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs." ―Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1441808299
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Brilliance Audio; Abridged edition (January 30, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781441808295
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1441808295
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.25 x 5.75 inches

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Michael Connelly is the bestselling author of more than thirty novels and one work of nonfiction. With over eighty-five million copies of his books sold worldwide and translated into forty-five foreign languages, he is one of the most successful writers working today. A former newspaper reporter who worked the crime beat at the Los Angeles Times and the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Connelly has won numerous awards for his journalism and his fiction. His very first novel, The Black Echo, won the prestigious Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1992. In 2002, Clint Eastwood directed and starred in the movie adaptation of Connelly's 1998 novel, Blood Work. In March 2011, the movie adaptation of his #1 bestselling novel, The Lincoln Lawyer, hit theaters worldwide starring Matthew McConaughey as Mickey Haller. His most recent New York Times bestsellers include Desert Star (2022), The Dark Hours (2021), The Law Of Innocence (2020), Fair Warning (2020), and The Night Fire (2019). Michael is the executive producer of Bosch and Bosch: Legacy, Amazon Studios original drama series based on his bestselling character Harry Bosch, starring Titus Welliver and streaming on Amazon Prime/Amazon Freevee. He is the executive producer of The Lincoln Lawyer, streaming on Netflix, starring Manuel Garcia-Rulfo. He is also the executive producer of the documentary films, "Sound Of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story' and 'Tales Of the American.' He spends his time in California and Florida.

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Edward C. Nielsen, Famous Author

Time for Second Helpings

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2024

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I bought my first Michael Connelly book when "Black Echo" first came out, which was also his first book. I got hooked immediately and have read every subsequent book by Connelly as soon as it became available. There may be no better author. Others knock out a winner now and then, but Connelly hits a home run every time. I can't wait for his next effort, but in the meantime, I've begun rereading the older ones. It's been over 30 years and I'm old enough that I don't remember much about "Black Echo" (except that it was awesome), so rereading it and some of his other efforts is like reading it for the first time. "The Poet" is one of the few Connelly books my local library doesn't have available. If you like sharp dialogue and tight plotting, "The Poet" and any of Connelly's other efforts should please you.

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Cameron Wiggins

Excellent novel and a welcome departure from Harry Bosch ...

Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2015

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This is an excellent novel by Connelly and a welcome departure from his Harry Bosch character. I am a firm believer of not posting spoilers in a review and I will holdfast to this belief for the sake of future readers. However, I am simply amazed at how skillfully Connelly combines detailed characterization with a progressively forwarding plot structure. And, Connelly continues to cover all of the bases.
Jack McEvoy, reporter for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, is our main protagonist (?) in this novel. His twin brother, a member of the police force, commits suicide after a case gets the better of him. Jack works out a deal with his editor to write the story of his brother’s suicide, more for the therapy than the story itself.
Jack’s family and his sister-in-law are not too pleased about all of this, but Jack feels that he must, at least, for the sake of his mind and for his dead brother’s reputation. Maybe, Jack is just going through the motions, but he makes a few inquires into the ruled suicide and with law enforcement. Questions arise and let it be said that at this point his agreement with his editor to write the story, which the editor really pushed Jack for, becomes compromised in complicated ways.
At this point “The Poet” gets harder and harder to put down. Things are constantly happening and things are constantly changing. Jack doesn’t know what he is getting himself into. I revert back to the first paragraph and repeat that detailed characterization combined with a progressively forwarding plot structure really keep this book moving.
Anyone that enjoys reading police procedurals, suspense, thrillers, and murder mysteries will really like Michael Connelly ’s “The Poet.” This book will appeal to a very broad reading audience. It is basically a stand-alone, so it can be read at anytime. There is a second Jack McEvoy novel, “The Scarecrow”, which is written later. I only hope that others enjoy this book as much as I did.

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Jana L.Perskie

A Well Written, Unnervingly Chilling Psychological Thriller!

Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2005

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The level of suspense in Edgar Award-winning Michael Connelly's riveting whodunit, "The Poet," is so intense that even though I read the thriller's sequel, "The Narrows," first and therefore knew some of the more important aspects of the plot, including the identity of the serial murderer, I was still caught off guard and surprised throughout the novel. I do suggest, however, that one read the books in order for maximum enjoyment - although both are easily 5 Star reads.

The opening lines, from the mouth, (or mind), of protagonist Jack McEvoy, are knock-outs. And the quality of prose only gets better. "Death is my beat. I make my living from it. I forge my professional reputation on it. I treat it with the passion and precision of an undertaker - somber and sympathetic about it when I'm with the bereaved, a skilled craftsman with it when I am alone. I've always thought the secret of dealing with death was to keep it at arm's length. That's the rule." McEvoy is the Denver Rocky Mountain News' crime reporter. Author Connelly was a crime reporter himself, and his obvious expertise when describing the investigation, along with his knowledge of police procedures and the newspaper business, lends enormous credibility to his narrative.

When Jack is informed of the suicide of his twin brother, Sean, a homicide detective who was obsessed with a particularly heinous murder case, he has serious doubts that his brother was capable of taking his own life. Jack breaks his own rule. How can he keep his twin's death at arm's length? He begins to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death on his own, and discovers that Sean was murdered - a murder ingeniously disguised as a suicide. His research also brings to light several similar "apparent" suicides by homicide detectives, in various US cities. All of the dead cops were deeply disturbed by exceptionally grisly cases they were working on. Also common to all the deaths are brief and cryptic suicide notes, quoting lines from some of the more obscure writings of Edgar Allen Poe. Cases in Chicago, Baltimore, Dallas, New Mexico and Florida are eventually reopened. Jack continues to follow his leads, and to protect his sources, until the FBI discovers what he has uncovered and puts an end to his detecting. Obviously, they want to take over - these are federal crimes, after all, and Jack is a journalist. McEvoy threatens to print the story, which is his right - but would give the killer a heads-up. However an agreement is struck that Jack will temporarily sit on the scoop if the feds allow him to sit-in on the case. Thus, an unlikely team is forged. Several members of the FBI's Behavioral Science Section, and one Denver reporter, race against the clock to track the killer(s) and prevent the next murder(s).

This is one scary, chilling thriller. Add Poe's writing to this unnerving mix, and I'd advise you to read during daylight hours, or keep all the lights on in the evening. If you are squeamish, this may not be the book for you, as it deals with mutilation, child molestation and pedophilia.

Connelly is an excellent writer and his characters are every bit as compelling, complex and convincing as his narrative. The psychological aspects behind the motivations of many of these personages are just plain fascinating. To me Thomas Harris' "Silence of the Lambs" and "Red Dragon" are the best books I have every read in this particular category/genre. I have yet to read anything which induces the terror evoked by these two novels. This one comes close.

JANA

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Clay Yearsley

A departure, but a good one

Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2024

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Michael Connelly’s fifth book is his first without Harry Bosch as the main character. Instead, The Poet centers on Jack McEvoy, a crime reporter for the Rocky Mountain News. Another departure is that this is told (mostly) in first-person, as opposed to the third-person Bosch novels. What’s not a departure is that it’s a hard-boiled detective novel with some action, thrills, and twists. Also not a departure, it’s a really good read with believable and fleshed out primary and secondary characters.
Highly recommended.

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