Jack McEvoy es un periodista especializado en crímenes. Su hermano, policía de homicidios, aparentemente se ha suicidado. Cuando se decide a escribir sobre el asunto, descubre el rastro de El Poeta, un asesino en serie que ha dejado junto a sus ocho víctimas, todas ellas policías, falsas notas de suicidio con versos de Edgar Allan Poe.
Su descubrimiento hace que intervenga el FBI. Una de las agentes, Rachel Walling, desempeña un papel fundamental en la investigación, aunque finalmente el asesino consiga escapar.

Omläsning. En mästerlig berättelse som är spännande från första till sista sidan. Har tappat lite pga sin ålder då det känns mossigt att läsa om uppringda datamodem, faxsignaler och digitalkameror. Men det är nog det enda som felar i denna bok. Snubblande nära högsta betyg. ( )

It is so easy to compare a book to others by the same author, and when I do this for The Poet against the Bosch series, I find it doesn't give me the same enjoyment. You see this a lot in people's reviews of books or music, for that matter for authors/musicians ..... this isn't really the right thing to do, but it is hard to avoid.

That being said, this is a very good book. Some nice twists and turns .... my initial rating would have been 3 stars based on the blurb above, but I think it is really a solid 4 star book . ( )

3.5 ( )

This one was a little too twisty and too slow for my taste. The characters rely a little too much on cliche to be very interesting. It is interesting, though, to read back to how things were in the 90s when cellphones weren't ubiquitous and internet was dial-up. Looking back it's almost funny how the characters are like, "Wow, people can use the internet to network and share pictures?" ( )