The Scarecrow
About this audiobook
Jack McEvoy is at the end of the line as a crime reporter. Forced to take a buy-out from the Los Angeles Times, he's got 30 days left on the job. His last assignment? Training his replacement, a low-cost reporter just out of J-school. But Jack has other plans for his exit. He is going to go out with a bang: a final story that will win the newspaper journalism's highest honour - a Pulitzer Prize.
Jack focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a sixteen-year-old drug dealer from the projects who has confessed to police that he brutally raped and strangled one of his crack clients. But as Jack delves into the story he soon realises that Alonzo's so-called confession is bogus. The investigation leads him to a serial killer known as The Scarecrow, who has worked completely below the police and FBI radar.
Jack is soon off on the crime beat and running on the biggest story he's had since The Poet crossed his path twelve years before - but The Scarecrow knows he's coming . . .
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About the author
MICHAEL CONNELLY is the author of thirty-eight novels, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers Dark Sacred Night, Two Kinds of Truth, and The Late Show. His books, which include the Harry Bosch series and the Lincoln Lawyer series, have sold more than eighty million copies worldwide. Connelly is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels. He is the executive producer of Bosch, starring Titus Welliver, and the creator and host of the podcast Murder Book. He spends his time in California and Florida. To find out more, visit Michael's website or follow him on X or Facebook. www.michaelconnelly.com f/MichaelConnellyBooks X@Connellybooks
Michael Brandon is a distinguished stage, television, and film actor. A Laurence Olivier Award nominee for his portrayal of Jerry Springer, in the award winning Jerry Springer the Opera, he most recently appeared in the West End critics choice,Wet Weather Cover. Michael appeared on Broadway in Does a Tiger Wear a Nick Tie? and has just completed filming Captain America - The First Avenger. Some other film credits include Four Flies on Grey Velvet, Me and Orson Wells, and The Contaminated Man. He has appeared in dozens of TV films such as Queen of the Stardust Ballroom, James Dean and appeared as Dempsey in the TV series classic Dempsey and Makepeace. Other TV credits include This September, Hustle, Alley McBeal, The Practice, Bones, The Catherine Tate Show and Trial and Retribution. Michael is the U.S. Narrator of Thomas the Tank Engine and has read seven Michael Connelly audiobooks for Orion.
