THE SCARECROW has a bonus included in the hardcover – an excerpt from Michael Connelly’s next book, NINE DRAGONS. This Harry Bosch novel will be released in October 2009. And there are even more extras in THE SCARECROW. Michael created 12 fictional web sites in the story. As you come across them during your reading, you may have fun looking them up online. You’ll find some pretty cool bonus material there.
Click here to see bonus material found on one of the fictional websites.
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Then enter THE SCARECROW Book Trivia Contest. Read the book and test your knowledge. One winner will be randomly selected from all of the correct entries to have his or her name used for a character’s name in Michael’s next Harry Bosch novel, NINE DRAGONS. The winner will also receive a signed copy of the book when it’s released. This contest will run for only two weeks, from May 26 through June 9, 2009. SPOILER ALERT! The questions include spoilers for the book. Do not enter until after you’ve read THE SCARECROW.Order your signed copy of The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly at www.vjbooks.com
Michael Connelly has always tried to give his readers bonus material with each new novel. Short stories, lost chapters, and visual adaptations. This time he has something new. A short film called “Conflict of Interest,” which features the exploits of FBI Agent Rachel Walling leading up to the point she enters the story of THE SCARECROW. Don’t worry, there are no spoilers here. The story runs parallel to THE SCARECROW. The case Rachel is working comes very close to the story Jack McEvoy is chasing. Starring Julie St. Claire, Chris Bruno, and James Remar (Sex and the City, Dexter.) Written by Michael Connelly and directed by T.L. Lankford, the film will be available in three parts. The first installment is linked below. Watch for part two next week, and the finale on May 26, the day THE SCARECROW is published in the USA and Canada.
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Michael Connelly, the Nevada desert, Jack McEvoy’s thoughts while driving the loneliest road in America… You’ll find all that and more in this 2 minute video introducing The Scarecrow, Michael Connelly’s new thriller.
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The current generation of Irish crime writers had something of an annus mirabilis in 2008, when John Connolly, Tana French, Ken Bruen, Declan Hughes and Ruth Dudley Edwards were all nominated for prestigious crime-writing prizes in the US and the UK. Connolly, Dudley Edwards and French all took home awards, with French a multiple-award winner, a decent haul for a relatively small group of writers, and particularly as Irish crime fiction has yet to be taken as seriously at home as it is abroad. (more…)
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Matthew McConaughey, who had a breakout role as a lawyer in 1996’s “A Time to Kill,” is returning to the courtroom for his latest project. Variety reports that the actor is attached to star in “The Lincoln Lawyer,” a legal thriller based on the 2005 Michael Connelly best-seller.
The Lakeshore Entertainment movie will revolve around a low-level criminal defense attorney named Mickey Haller who is hired by a Beverly Hills playboy, his first high-paying client in years. What appears to be a slam-dunk case takes a turn for the dangerous when someone close to Haller is murdered and the attorney’s own life is threatened.
McConaughey’s other movie credits include “Failure to Launch,” “Fool’s Gold” and, most recently, a supporting role in the comedy “Tropic Thunder.”
He next stars opposite Jennifer Garner in “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.” Directed by “Mean Girls” helmer Mark Waters, the romantic comedy opens in theatres May 1.
(andpop.com, March 29, Eva Lam)
The second annual CRIMEFEST is being held in Bristol from 14th to 17th May . Guests this year include Anne Zouroudi, Michael Walters, Zoe Sharp, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, Michael Connelly, Kate Ellis and Maxim Jakubowski, amongst others.
During a conversation with one of the organisors of Crimefest, I was interested to learn that although it is only the second Crimefest being held in the UK it is the organisors’ third event that they have had a hand in.
In 2006 Left Coast Crime – the massively popular US convention came to the UK for the first time. It too was held in Bristol as it could retain its title – that of Left Coast Crime. LCC organisers had spoken to Myles Allfrey and Adrian Muller (current co-hosts of Crimefest) and had their help in arranging this amazing event. The UK has never seen its like before and it made Myles and Adrian realise that there was a definite niche in the (more…)
The Scarecrow Interview With Michael Connelly
It has been quite a few years since reporter Jack McEvoy was featured in The Poet. What made you decide to write about him again?Being a former newspaper reporter, I’ve watched in recent years as the newspaper economy has crumbled and newspapers have tried to figure out ways to deal with advertising and readers shifting to the Internet. Along the way, many people I worked with have lost their jobs to buyouts or layoffs. I am also a big fan of the television show The Wire. In its last season, the show explored in a secondary plot what was happening to the newspaper business. Watching that show made me want to take a shot at a story that would be a thriller first and a torch song for the newspaper business second.
In The Scarecrow, Jack is in his last days of working for the Los Angeles Times, the newspaper you used to work for as a reporter. Sadly, the Rocky Mountain News, Jack’s newspaper in The Poet, has shut down production forever. How did that affect the writing of this book?
As with any sort of downward spiral, the closer you get to the end, the tighter the circles become. In the writing process and thereafter, I kept hearing of things that were happening and had to try to get them into the story. The Times is meant to represent the entire business—all newspapers. So I might hear of something happening at one paper and I would incorporate it into my story of the Times. But after the book was (more…)
THE SCARECROW will have a very cool bonus feature included in the hardcover — an excerpt of Michael’s next book, NINE DRAGONS. This Harry Bosch novel will be released in October 2009.
Harry Bosch is assigned a homicide call in South L.A. that takes him to Fortune Liquors, where the Chinese owner has been shot to death behind the counter in a robbery. Joined by members of the department’s Asian Crime Unit, Bosch relentlessly investigates the killing and soon identifies a suspect, a Los Angeles member of a Hong Kong triad. But before Harry can close in, he gets the word that his young daughter Maddie, who lives in Hong Kong with her mother, is missing. Bosch drops everything to journey across the Pacific to find his daughter. Could her disappearance and the case be connected? With the stakes of the investigation so high and so personal, Bosch is up against the clock in a new city, where nothing is at it seems.
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