Reporter who just received two weeks' notice stumbles onto a serial killer. Except the serial killer has enough resources to be aware of the reporter before the reporter even knows what he's up against. Fortunately, he has an old friend in the FBI from the last time he got tangled up with a serial killer, so maybe he has a chance.
I haven't read a Connelly book since The Lincoln Lawyer, probably. That was like 10 years ago. This is pretty much what I remember stylistically, although Connelly doesn't make it a mystery who is committing these awful murders. We're privy to the information early on in the book, and just waiting to see if McEvoy and Agent Walling can figure it out in time. I can't remember if that's the approach he took with The Poet (the previous book that starred these two character, which I read sometime years ago.) It wasn't typical with his Harry Bosch books, back when I was reading those.
Connelly did surprise me, because I expected The Scarecrow to put McEvoy in more danger by tampering with his life electronically. Early in the book someone tries to steal information under the Scarecrow's protection, and he goes out of his way to plant child pornography on that guy's computer and completely destroy his life. I expected him to try that with McEvoy, to entirely discredit and isolate him, rather than kill him. Put him in so much trouble he doesn't have time to pursue leads about a killer. The killer had a different plan, though, and I guess once that falls apart, the feds are involved and it's too late to worry about a single reporter.
'The media and the police have never been on comfortable terms. The media views itself as the public watchdog. And nobody, the police included, likes having someone looking over their shoulder.'
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