#39 in Crime & mystery
The Poet
- 512
- Pages
- about 9 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Poet” is Connelly without Harry Bosch: a dark, intense crime novel with the reporter Jack McEvoy at its centre. Some readers describe a plausible, well-paced story with characters they liked, and the tension holds across more than five hundred pages. Others are left undecided by the ending, where the solution seems to them to arrive almost out of nowhere.
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About the book
The Poet is the fifth novel by American author Michael Connelly. Published in 1996, it is the first of Connelly's novels not to feature Detective Harry Bosch and the first to feature Crime Reporter Jack McEvoy. A sequel, The Scarecrow, was published in 2009. The Poet won the 1997 Dilys Award.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.2 across 182 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 55% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Crime & mystery average of 7.6. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 6.9 | 7 | 4% |
| Hardcover | 8.2 | 175 | 96% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Poet?
It has 512 pages — longer than 87% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.
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