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Title: The Poet by Michael Connelly, Buck Schirner ISBN: 1-59086-300-3 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Pub. Date: December, 2002 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 10 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.07 (167 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Good Read!
Comment: A reporter, Jack McEvoy, looks into the death of his twin brother, a homicide detective who is found dead in his vehicle, an apparent suicide. Doubting the facts, he investigates the circumstances of his brother's death and uncovers cases of assumed suicides of other officers, with one commonality, a suicide note that apparently is a line from a poem. This opens an official investigation for a serial killer dubbed "The Poet." This book may not grab you right off the bat, but after you get into it, you keep turning those pages longer than you intended to. If you like details of crime investigations you will like this book. The main character, Jack, is not a super-hero, but a believable and likeable good guy, who's persistence and determination one has to admire. The pedophile personality in the book is very disturbing, and the murders descriptive, so it is not for the squeamish reader. I liked the fact that the book keeps you wondering as to who the real cop-killer is. The only disappointment was in the killers motivation - when the real killer is revealed, it is unclear what caused the individual to go wrong and created such an evil, warped personality... it is also open to a sequel, but since this was written in 1996 I should think Connelly would have had one out by now if he is going to do one.
Rating: 3
Summary: Ehhh ...
Comment: Out of the three Michael Connolly novels I've read (the other two being "Angels Flight" and "Trunk Music"), "The Poet" was, at least in my mind, the most readable. Connelly sets up an excellent premise--after his twin brother, a Denver PD detective, is found dead in what looks to be a suicide over an unsolvable case, a journalist begins his own investigation, only to find that his brother may be the latest in a line of cop homicides set up to look like suicides. The band that ties them together are quotes from Edgar Allan Poe poems supposedly left as suicide notes.
The book opens with a bang, with Connelly providing expert plotting and pace, but ... as with a great deal of commercial thrillers, the cliches start showing up. First, we have the cop's widow discovering she's pregnant ("and we weren't even trying!"). Then we have the sexy troubled female FBI agent showing up and getting involved with the journalist, then her ex-husband and fellow agent shows up to be a bad..., then the stereotypical superior preening of the supposed murderer ... on and on until the out-of-nowhere and pretty unbelievable ending. Connelly writes well--his particular strength is dialogue--and if push came to shove I would definitely read his work over that of James Patterson or Ridley Pearson. "The Poet" in the end, however, is a fairly typical commercial thriller, albeit with a little more poetry.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Book....
Comment: I recently completed this book about 2 months ago, and thought it was a great book. To many, the book was good throughout until the ending, but that was the part that I thought made it the best. Every time one anticipates who is doing what, or what is going to occur next, Connelly fools you or at least he did me on a couple of occasions. Anyhow, this book is a good "leisure book" and wont totally consume your mind.
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Title: Trunk Music by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0312963297 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0312958455 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 July, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Void Moon by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0446609145 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Angels Flight by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0446607274 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Darkness More Than Night, A by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0446667900 Publisher: Warner Vision Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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