From
the back cover
“Once a
hotshot in the newsroom, crime reporter Jack McEvoy is now about to be laid off
at the Los Angeles Times. Deciding to use his final work days to write the
definitive murder story of his career, he focuses on Alonzo Winslow, an
imprisoned sixteen-year-old drug dealer who confessed to the murder of a young woman
found strangled in the trunk of her car. But as Jack delves into the story, he
realizes that Winslow’s so-called confession is bogus. The kid might actually
be innocent. When Jack connects the L.A. trunk killing to an earlier murder in
Las Vegas, he is on the biggest story he’s had since the Poet crossed his path
years before. But Jack doesn’t know that his investigation has set off a
digital trip wire. The killer knows Jack is coming. . .and he’s ready.”
Review
Scarecrow is a slick, burn-through and dark
thriller, a worthwhile and equally twist-punctuated follow-up to the excellent
beach read novel, The Poet. Be sure to look for the blink-and-miss-it mention of Michael Haller, "the Lincoln lawyer," another Connelly character with his own novel. Scarecrow is
worth picking up for a few bucks or borrowing from the library.
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