The Scarecrow - Michael Connelly • BookLikes (ISBN:1741756782)

The Scarecrow

by: Michael Connelly (author)

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ISBN: 9781741756784 (1741756782)

Publish date: 2009

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Edition language: English

Category:

Crime

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Abandoned by Booklikes rated it

4 years ago

http://oblue.booklikes.com Abandoned by Booklikes 4.0 The Scarecrow

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The main reason why I am not giving this five stars is that it's a bit much that Jack keeps facing off against killers. It's okay that he's a reporter and that's it. Also the story gets a little lost at times I thought. It picks up when Jack meets Rachel again, but I wish that Connelly actually spen...

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XOX rated it

7 years ago

http://XOX.booklikes.com XOX 5.0 Jack and Rachel team-up again to catch killer

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Jack was being downsided. He got a pink slip. A 12 days notice before clearing his desk. He also needed to train his replacement Angela Cook, a very green journalist. A woman was found in car trunk, dead and naked. Jack reported it and was harassed by a caller who claimed the guy was innocent...

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bookaneer rated it

10 years ago

http://pagefault.booklikes.com bookaneer 3.5 "Like the paper and ink newspaper itself, my time was over."

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Book Reaction (not a full review) The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly As always, Michael Connelly can spin a story. My attention was captured from beginning to end. Connelly brings all of his personal experiences to bear in The Scarecrow, which opens with a bitter portrait of modern reporting. Jack ...

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The Book Frog rated it

11 years ago

http://TheBookFrog.booklikes.com The Book Frog 4.0 The Scarecrow

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This is what a serial killer thriller should be: taut, scary, fast-moving, making good use of the usual tropes (for the killer: childhood trauma, cool/goofy nickname, grotesque fetish, high intelligence; for the hero: personal life in a shambles, likeability issues, high intelligence) while building...

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