Perhaps white-collar crime just doesn’t do it for me. Her murder is a long way from the briefs they take on at Fair Warning, but he soon finds similar deaths and a link between the dead women.įor reasons unknown I dislike books with a corporate espionage focus. Jack becomes personally embroiled in a murder because he briefly dated the victim over a year before her death. He seems kinda contented and sufficiently enthused by his job, though realising some of his best work (including his two novels) are long behind him. But his inquiry hits a snag when he himself becomes a suspect.Īs he races to clear his name, McEvoy's findings point to a serial killer working under the radar of law enforcement for years, and using personal data shared by the victims themselves to select and hunt his targets.Īs the book opens Jack’s working for Fair Warning, an online consumer watchdog news site. McEvoy investigates-against the warnings of the police and his own editor-and makes a shocking discovery that connects the crime to other mysterious deaths across the country.
Veteran reporter Jack McEvoy has taken down killers before, but when a woman he had a one-night stand with is murdered in a particularly brutal way, McEvoy realizes he might be facing a criminal mind unlike any he's ever encountered. I’ve actually got very vivid memories of reading The Poet (which is rare given I read a lot of books that are quite similar, AND it was a long time ago) so was keen to be reintroduced to Jack (all of these years later) in Connelly’s new release, Fair Warning. (Though I know there was a crossover or two with Harry Bosch.)
Jack reappeared in The Scarecrow (2009) but he’s been kinda quiet ever since.
We first met journalist Jack McEvoy in The Poet (published in 1996), one of the first books I read by Michael Connelly.
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