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The Poet

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 The Poet is a 1996 mystery novel by Michael Connelly.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })It was Connelly's fifth novel and the first that didn't feature his most frequent protagonist, LAPD detective Harry Bosch. Instead, the main character is Jack McEvoy, a newspaper reporter who specializes in the crime beat and, specifically, murder. His world is rocked when his twin brother Sean, a homicide cop, kills himself by a bullet to the head.Jack resolves to write about his brother's death. He is skeptical of the suicide theory and eventually discovers that sure enough, Sean's death was a carefully planned murder. It turns out that there is a serial killer going around the country targeting homicide cops. The killer makes a habit of quoting Edgar Allan Poe works, which earns him the nickname of "The Poet". The FBI takes over the investigation, and brings Jack along, which leads to romance when Jack meets attractive FBI agent Rachel Walling.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })A parallel story follows William Gladden, a murderous pedophile who makes his living selling child pornography on the dark Internet. The two stories converge when the FBI zeroes in on Gladden as the killer and sets up a trap.Eight years later Connelly returned to the Poet story in a sequel, The Narrows. Connelly would later write another Jack McEvoy novel, The Scarecrow.
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 Chekhov's Gun: Jack discovers that someone from the FBI made calls to the Quantico main line and to the prison holding Gladden's cell mate, Horace Golden. This seems unimportant until Jack finds out that the fax from The Poet came in to the Quantico main line and that Golden was running a child porn website from his prison.
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 Angsty Surviving Twin: Jack is driven to understand the suicide of his twin brother the cop—and later to catch his murderer.
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 Book-Ends: The first and last chapters begin with the same sentence—"Death is my beat."
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 Alone with the Psycho: Climaxes with Jack McEvoy trapped alone with the titular killer.
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