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The Scarecrow (2009)

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The Scarecrow (2009)	comment	The Scarecrow is a 2009 crime novel written by Michael Connelly.The novel revisits Jack McEvoy, crime reporter and hero of previous Connelly novel The Poet. Life has been something of a disappointment for Jack since he hit the big time with his true crime book The Poet. He was hired to a hefty salary by the Los Angeles Times but in the thirteen years since he has not written any other books, with an unfinished and failed novel sitting in a drawer. He has not seen Rachel Walling, the FBI agent he fell in love with while chasing The Poet. And to make matters worse, the relentless decline of the newspaper industry has resulted in Jack being fired from the Times, but not before he has to train his replacement, fresh-faced young reporter Angela Cook.Jack fields a call from the grandmother of Alonso Winslow, a gangbanger being held on a murder charge involving a stripper found dead in the trunk of a car. Jack's investigation of the murder soon leads to a completely different direction, eventually taking him to a computer "server farm" in Arizona, run by a computer tech named Wesley Carver, who has some dark secrets.Followed 11 years later by a third Jack McEvoy novel, Fair Warning. No connection with the villain from the Batman universe, or with the 1920 film by Buster Keaton.
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The Scarecrow (2009) / int_14a8e0a2	comment	Villain Opening Scene: The book kicks off with Carver in the server farm, doing some terrible things to someone who has tried to hack in.
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The Scarecrow (2009) / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The server farm being called a "farm", Wesley Carver is nicknamed "The Scarecrow" because his job is fending off people who try and hack into the farm.
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The Scarecrow (2009) / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: One of Jack's co-workers has a picture from The Wizard of Oz hanging on her wall. This eventually leads Jack to figure out the "scarecrow" connection to the murders. And the murderer's website, Denslow Data, turns out to be a Shout-Out to W.W. Denslow, the illustrator of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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The Scarecrow (2009) / int_237f7eeb	comment	Missing White Woman Syndrome: Jack calls out an LAPD captain on the Rodia Gardens raid, noting that the cops only mounted a raid on the crime-ridden housing project after a resident of Rodia Gardens was connected to the murder of a white woman.
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The Scarecrow (2009) / int_2dd590cb	comment	Title Drop Chapter: The last chapter, a brief and grim postscript that describes Carver's And I Must Scream ending, is called "The Scarecrow".
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The Scarecrow (2009) / int_55404918	comment	Knuckle Tattoos: Jack gives up on questioning one particular gangbanger when he notices said gangbanger has "FUCK DA50" tattooed across his knuckles.
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The Scarecrow (2009) / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: How Freddy Stone, Carver's murder partner, meets his end after a fight with Jack.
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The Scarecrow (2009) / int_62df92d4	comment	Involuntary Charity Donation: The villain hacks into one of Jack's accounts and donates the money.
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The Scarecrow (2009) / int_71598ac8	comment	Internal Affairs: Rachel runs afoul of the Office of Professional Responsibility, "the bureau's version of Internal Affairs," after commandeering an FBI plane to save Jack from a murderer. The OPR still has a grudge against her from the events of The Poet and is looking for an excuse to drum her out of the bureau.
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The Scarecrow (2009) / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
The Scarecrow (2009) / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: Carver and Stone have killed multiple women, and Carver has killed more in the past.
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The Scarecrow (2009) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
The Scarecrow (2009) / int_7a12aabf	comment	New Media Are Evil: One of the running themes of the book is the devastation being wreaked on the newspaper business by the Internet and how stories aren't going to get covered. Jack is laid off at the start of the book as downsizing at the LA Times continues.
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The Scarecrow (2009) / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Carver is shown right off the bat not just alerting the authorities to a hacker, but stealing all the hacker's money and framing him for child porn.
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The Scarecrow (2009) / int_8015df5d	comment	Reverse Whodunnit: It is established very early that Carver and Stone are the real killers in the murder that Alonzo Winslow was arrested for. The suspense is in how Jack McEvoy will track them down.
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The Scarecrow (2009) / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The Scarecrow (2009) / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: As appropriate to Connelly's heavily populated universe. Rachel Walling makes reference to her romance with Harry Bosch. Jack recalls writing stories about a lawyer who ran a practice from his limo, that being Mickey Haller from The Lincoln Lawyer. When discussing the body in the trunk Rachel mentions the murder behind the Hollywood Bowl that was the plot of Trunk Music. Jack remembers Rachel's involvement in the Echo Park shootout that was the climax to Echo Park. The stripper murdered in Las Vegas worked at the fictional Cleopatra casino, which was the casino that was robbed in Void Moon. Jack remembers how Michael Warren, now his coworker at the Times, once dealt with him unethically; that happened in The Poet.
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The Scarecrow (2009) / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Scarecrow (2009) / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Jack and Rachel make love, followed by a warm, romantic aftermath, followed by Jack discovering a dead body under his bed.
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The Scarecrow (2009) / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: After being shot through the head, Carver is left in an irreversible coma, suffering from terrible pain, trapped in his own mind and unable to communicate.
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The Scarecrow (2009) / int_ad54954f	comment	Punk in the Trunk: Denise Babbit was found stuffed into the trunk of her car. When Jack discovers a Las Vegas murder that was carried out the same way with the victim stuffed into the trunk of a car, he realizes that Alonzo Winslow is innocent and there is a serial killer on the loose.
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The Scarecrow (2009) / int_ae475b01	comment	A True Story in My Universe: Within the Michael Connelly universe, The Poet is a true crime book written by Jack McEvoy.
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The Scarecrow (2009) / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: A picture from The Wizard of Oz leads Jack to realize the resemblance between the traditional representation of a scarecrow and the suffocated murder victims, leading him to realize that Carver is the real killer.
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The Scarecrow (2009) / int_df4b69d6	comment	Uncomfortable Elevator Moment: Jack gets stuck in a casino elevator with "Sideburns", the annoyingly chatty man who was sitting next to him at the slot machines. As Sideburns blabs, Jack regrets not taking the stairs. Shortly after he finds out that Sideburns is one of the bad guys and he narrowly escaped being murdered. (It was Freddy Stone, Carver's sidekick and partner in serial killing.)
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The Scarecrow (2009) / int_e022585	comment	Television Geography: McEvoy drives Highway 50, "The Loneliest Road in America", from Las Vegas to Ely, Nevada. Unfortunately Highway 50 does not go to Las Vegas; it is the east-west road that one would take from Carson City to Ely. From Las Vegas one would take the north-south road, Highway 93 (just as lonely, but without a colorful nickname), to Ely.
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The Scarecrow (2009) / int_e288e579	comment	Lying to the Perp: The cops questioning Alonzo Winslow employ this tactic when they tell him his hands match the strangling marks found on the victim's neck. He replies that the victim wasn't strangled. Not only he comes with a reason to know this in spite of not being the killer but he turns out to be the innocent man he claims to be.
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The Scarecrow (2009) / int_e3109dae	comment	Switching P.O.V.: Switches back and forth between Carver the murderer (told in third person) and McEvoy the reporter (told in first-person narration). This is the same structure Connelly used for previous Jack McEvoy novel The Poet.
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The Scarecrow (2009) / int_e3847ee8	comment	Cigarette of Anxiety: Hank the kitchen man has to start puffing on a smoke after a murderer barrels through the kitchen and Jack rescues a hog-tied Rachel from a room service cart.
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The Scarecrow (2009) / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Technically it wasn't a lie when the cops said Alonzo Winslow confessed. They just didn't mention the confession wasn't about the crime he was arrested for.
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The Scarecrow (2009) / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: A well-placed kick to the nuts nearly allows Freddy Stone to win his fight with Jack.
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The Scarecrow (2009) / int_edfacbac	comment	Covert Pervert: After Carver hacks into Angela's computer, he discovers that she likes to visit a dominatrix bondage website. It's not played for humor like this trope often is, as Carver is a deranged Serial Killer.
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The Scarecrow (2009) / int_f88f2449	comment	Downer Beginning: The first chapter from Jack's POV finds him having failed to write a novel, having been married and divorced, and just laid off from his job.
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