“Being a former newspaper reporter, I’ve watched in recent years as the newspaper economy has crumbled…. Along the way, many people I worked with have lost their jobs to buyouts or layoffs. I am also a big fan of the TV show The Wire. In its last season, the show explored… what was happening to the newspaper business. Watching that show made me want to take a shot at the story that would be a thriller first and a torch song for the newspaper business second.”
– Connelly’s reason for bringing back The Poet protagonist Jack McEvoy. Scarecrow copies in print: 405,000. (Publisher’s Weekly, June 8)
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