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The Poet (1996) Home » Novels » The Poet (1996) Death is my beat… Jack McEvoy specializes in death. As a crime reporter for the Rocky Mountain News, he has seen every kind of murder. But his professional bravado doesn’t lessen the brutal shock of learning that his only brother is dead, a suicide.
The Poet Excerpt. Home » The Poet (1996) » The Poet Excerpt. Death is my beat. I make my living from it. I forge my professional relationship on it. I treat it with the passion and precision of an undertaker — somber and sympathetic about it when I’m with the bereaved, a skilled craftsman with it when I’m alone.
“An intriguing new protagonist…. Connelly doesn’t just talk about poets, he writes like one, with a spare, elegiac tone that is the perfect voice for the haunting tale he has to tell.” — People Magazine “On the fright level, “The Poet” ranks with Thomas Harris’ ‘The Silence of the Lambs’.”
WARNING: SPOILERS for The Poet. After Robert Backus headed off into the darkness in the last pages of The Poet my full intention was for him to remain in the darkness, to never return, to always be out there like a killer ghost haunting my fictional world.
FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she’s dreaded for years: the one that tells her the Poet has returned. Years earlier she worked on the famous case tracking down the serial killer who wove lines of poetry into his hideous crimes.
The Poet (1996) The Scarecrow (2009) Fair Warning (2020) Small appearance in the following novels: A Darkness More Than Night (2001) and The Brass Verdict (2008). Other Main Characters. Rachel Walling Appearances: The Poet (1996) The Narrows (2004) (sequel to The Poet) Echo Park (2006) The Overlook (2007) The Scarecrow (2009) Fair Warning (2020)
The Poet Audiobook. Home » The Poet (1996) » The Poet Audiobook. The Poet audiobook is read by Buck Schirner. It is available in CD and in downloadable formats. Listen to an excerpt:
The Poet (1996)* Gordon Thorson. The Poet (1996)* Torborg. The Night Fire (2019)* Dark Sacred Night (2018)* Gloria Torres. Blood Work (1998)* Raymond Torres. Blood Work (1998)* Lisa Trammel. The Law of Innocence (2020)* The Fifth Witness (2011)* Nicholas Trent. City Of Bones (2002)* Captain Trevino.
Q: In The Scarecrow, you bring FBI agent Rachel Walling and journalist Jack McEvoy back together for the first time since The Poet. In recent years we’ve seen Rachel working closely with LAPD detective Harry Bosch and falling in and out of a romantic relationship with him.
Robert “Bob” Backus, Jr is the Special Agent in Charge of the Behavioral Science Section of the FBI. He is Rachel Walling’s supervisor.
