To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Magnífica en el desarrollo de los personajes, superlativa en la consecución de una tensión narrativa atrapante que no te deja soltar el libro en ningún momento y, cuando lo haces, estás soñando con volver a cogerlo, brutal en el desarrollo del método policial.

I read this book after Fair Warning and although there was a reference to the The Poet it did not spoil the enjoyment of the book. He says it's for his brother, but really it's for the story and glory of what he is getting involved with.While his investigative skills carry the investigation, the reader is never fully convinced that he is doing it for the right reasons. My review has concentrated on style, which may be important to some readers, rather than content as other reviews of The Poet and The Narrows deal very well with the content. But his professional bravado doesn’t lessen the brutal shock of learning that his only brother is dead, a suicide.

The tech (which was probably top notch back then) is quite laughable but forget about that and get into the story and go with it.In 2002, Clint Eastwood directed and starred in the movie adaptation of Connelly's 1998 novel, Blood Work. The narrator was fine but I associate Buck Schirner with the Monkeewrench series so that was a distraction. A romance will get the ole "heave-ho" from me in a heartbeat and if a romance or emotionally loaded character line takes over a book I'm still prone to "move on". I recently wrote a review of Tess Gerritsen's THE SINNER in which I suggested that she had failed to clear the bar that she had set for herself in her previous novels. If not for that a higher rating would have been worthy, although the climax of The Poet is also a tad far-fetched.

He then learns that her father, a cop, had been suspected of molesting her and committed suicide when she was a teenager. He seemed to be written in a way to fit whatever Connelly was trying to do and not really as a developed character. So I wrote The Poet with the idea that it would be a thrill ride with enough reader fulfillment at the end to overcome the dissatisfaction of having the killer ultimately get away. Jack McEvoy is a reporter in pursuit of not only a story but the killer who murdered his twin brother, Sean.

A copy of the book was read by agent Rachel Walling in April of 2004, and another copy of the book was found in the home of Declan McGinnis during the investigation into the Scarecrow murders.