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|  | Author: Michael Connelly
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Rating:  214 reviews
Sales Rank: 1648
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 448
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.6
ISBN: 0316166308
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780316166300
ASIN: 0316166308
Publication Date: May 26, 2009
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 Awful . . . just awful . . . where's the real Michael? September 3, 2009
B. H. Taylor (Texas, United States)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Very disappointed. I've read virtually all of MC's stuff -- love Harry Bosch -- but had to flog myself to finish Scarecrow. Kept hoping it would turn the corner and get better. Sadly, it didn't. Thankfully, a couple of reads right after by Peter Temple perked me up.
 Couldn't get into it September 3, 2009
H. Mayer (Rock Hall, MD)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I read a lot of best seller fiction action/mystery books, but found it difficult to get into the Scarecrow. I would read a few pages and just lose interest. Part of it was possibly the unfamiliar newspaper jargon. I have a different understanding of the word "budget".
 Too wierd and stinted dialogue September 1, 2009
Sarason D. Liebler (Liberty, Maine USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I reach for all of Michael Connelly's work and anticipate a good tight story. Sometimes I am disappointed and this is one of those times. Connelly shifts between the genre of believable or at least really conceivable stories to the realm of improbable (but possible) horror.
His Bosch books are the well balanced and The Lincoln Lawyer and The Brass Verdict were terrific. In the Scarecrow he has used his excellent procedural talents (police work and journalism) to pad a plodding story that leaves his characters with no depth. Dialogue between Jack McEvoy and Agent Rachel Walling, people with a long history is stilted and unrealistic. He never gets inside them and if two such obviously bright and talented people ever chose their counterparts based upon their communication as expressed in this book they would likely run to meet someone on line.
And it is "on line" where this book does offer some sparkle. Connelly's description of just how vulnerable all of are when using our computers is well done. Certainly there has been much crime generated by our on line vulnerability and it is well woven into this plot.
Still, overall, this effort sags.
Are Most Authors only In it For the Money? September 1, 2009
Joyce B. (Farmington Hills, MI)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Unfortunately I have been trying to read a string of really poorly written novels by authors who have generally had excellently written books. Suddenly we are getting novels that seem thrown together for only one reason - make money for the author, publisher etc. While Scarecrow is not quite as poor as some, it has a predictable set up and the plot is often forced, especially the one that names the book. The main character who has been a journalist for many years, as well as a famed author, apparently has never heard of the term "unsub"! Watching tv would have filled him in. Once he learns the definition he uses it every chance he gets like a two year old who has just learned MAMA. I wish someone would count the number of times he uses that term!!! Talk about making your lead character unbelievably stupid and naive on so many levels! And let's not talk about the lead female FBI agent - who must surely be made to appear to be a "dumb blonde" with a badge...(my term not his). I did read the story to the end, with some skimming as it was too long and too winded...editor, please! Where are the authors who would never allow such a poorly constructed book to be published? Coming to mind is Ed McBain who never let us down no matter under what name he wrote. Please no more notes for a good book! Let the author fully develop it! Disappointing.
 Tension Galore, Connelly Really Delivers September 1, 2009
Katie Osborne (Portland, Oregon and the sunny Caribbean)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Los Angeles Times reporter Jack McEvoy has been given the pink slip. A lot of that is going around in the newspaper business these days. McEvoy is a veteran crime reporter and to add insult to injury he's been asked to spend his last two weeks with the paper training his replacement. McEvoy decides to go out with a story that will make them sorry they let him go.
A young woman has been murdered and stuffed into the trunk of her stolen car. The killer is a sixteen-year-old drug dealer and he's confessed, but his grandmother is convinced he is innocent and she prevails upon McEvoy to investigate. McEvoy sees a story that will make everybody sit up and take notice, maybe even Pulitzer material. But his story about how a kid became a killer morphs into something else when he sees a similarity to another crime.
Wacko, nut job Wesley Carver is the genius behind Western Data Consultants. He uses the data to find his victims. Wesley is a killer. But the data he retrieves not only helps him find his victims, it also warns him about McEnoy's investigation. Wesley wants to remain anonymous. Can you guess where this is going?
There is tension galore in this delicious thriller that brings back Jack McEvoy from the The Poet and reunites him with Rachel Walling from so many of Connelly's novels. You know there is going to be a whopping good climax and Connelly really delivers.
Review submitted by Captain Katie Osborne
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