- Journalists, Fiction, Serial murder investigation, Computer industry
Forced out of the Los Angeles Times amid the latest budget cuts, newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to go out with a bang, using his final days at the paperto write the definitive murder story of his career.
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Contemporary, grave, classical in form and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Michael Connelly
- First published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company, Little, Brown and Co.
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780316073455
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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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