The Poet

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To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Within the continuity of Connelly's fictional Los Angeles, the book was a nonfiction account of the investigation that was ostensibly written by McEvoy.

Sean had been severely depressed, agonizing over his failure to solve a particularly brutal homicide. I admire the fact that he was not afraid to be graphic when necessary because turning a blind eye to this kind of inhumanity is, in my opinion, just as dangerous as those who perpetrate this type of inhumanity. He meets Special Agent Rachel Walling and her boss/supervisor Robert Backus along with some other FBI agents. Jack McEvoy has a cameo appearances in the novels A Darkness More Than Night (2001) and The Brass Verdict (2008), and later features in his own sequels The Scarecrow (2009) and Fair Warning (2020). Además de un tema que a mi me da mucho asco y es una de las poca cosas que su lectura no me agrada, todo lo contrario, no me gusta leer sobre ello.En esta entrega (1995), vemos al personal ya con portátiles y móviles, tirando de internet vía módem y conexión telefónica. It’s understandable why pedophilia is a taboo subject, but it’s also important to note that it’s an issue that needs to be addressed. Oh, mid-‘90s, how quaint you seem in this book published in ‘96 with your dial-up internet connections, faxes, pagers, landline phones, and new-fangled digital cameras.

Was anyone else bothered that McEvoy's character felt inconsistent and underdeveloped, that his astute insights didn't match his seeming passivity? It should appeal to large numbers of crime fiction readers, and even if it is not quite as good as several of Connelly's other novels, that's only because Connelly himself has set the bar so high. If not for that a higher rating would have been worthy, although the climax of The Poet is also a tad far-fetched. He even, against all odds, manages an inside role in the investigations, only to find himself shut out of both the cases and his own story. Quizá demasiado canónica en el esquema de la trama y los principales giros, pero se perdona sobradamente por lo excelso del resultado final.

This was one of the earlier Connelly books and he ended up inserting these characters into the larger Bosch world novels later on.