by vjbooks | Jun 19, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
“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...
by vjbooks | May 6, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
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...
by vjbooks | Apr 6, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Mar 30) Bestseller Connelly comments on the plight of print journalism in a nail-biting thriller featuring reporter Jack McEvoy, last seen in 2004’s The Narrows. When Jack is laid off from the L.A. Times with 14 days’ notice to...
by vjbooks | Dec 11, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
Michael Connelly’s next book is THE SCARECROW, featuring crime reporter Jack McEvoy and FBI Agent Rachel Walling, together for the first time since THE POET. Forced out of the Los Angeles Times amid the latest budget cuts, newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to go...
