- Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories, Serial murders, Fiction
FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded for years, the one that tells her the Poet has surfaced. She has never forgotten the serial killer who wove lines of poetry in his hideous crimes--and apparently he has not forgotten her. Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call, too--from the widow of an old friend. Her husband's death seems natural, but his ties to the hunt for the Poet make Bosch dig deep. Arriving at a derelict spot in the California desert where the feds are unearthing bodies, Bosch joins forces with Rachel. Now the two are at odds with the FBI... and squarely in the path of the Poet, who will lead them on a wicked ride out of the heat, through the narrows of evil, and into a darkness all his own...
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Classical in form, contemporary, grave and earnest.
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- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Michael Connelly
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 404
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & co., Orion mass market paperback, Little, Brown
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9785971345299
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“SHE WAS IN DARKNESS, floating on a black sea, a starless sky above.”
Michael Connelly is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. His books, which have been translated into 39 languages, have garnered him many awards. Connelly was the President of the Mystery Writers of America from 2003 to 2004.
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