They were dispatched by means of atlanto-occipital dislocation – essentially decapitated internally, their heads ending up at a 180 degree angle from the rest of the body. But will this stop our hero of the moment? Not on your life! As he begins to dig deeper, McEvoy uncovers a link between Tina and other women who were offed in this killer’s particularly distinctive manner. McEvoy’s an old school journo who won’t give up once he’s got the scent of an exclusive – and his determination lands him in jail for a night. For most people, it would be time to step back and smell the roses, but McEvoy jumps in with both feet, and is soon ruffling the feathers of both the LAPD detectives investigating the case, and his boss, Myron. After all, he’s got the inside track – he once dated the dead woman, and the police are treating him as a person of interest in the death of Tina Portrero. Yes, it’s crime, but it’s not quite the cut and thrust of McEvoy’s heyday as a reporter running the police beat for the LA Times, so when he has a real-life murder story dropped in his lap he doesn’t hesitate. When we are first reacquainted with him, he’s putting the finishing touches to an exposé of a prolific con artist who has diversified into running training courses to share the secrets of his nefarious trade with other would-be confidence tricksters – including an undercover McEvoy. Now Michael Connelly’s dogged investigative journalist is back in a story that’s bang up to the minute.įor starters, former dyed-in-the-wool newspaperman McEvoy is now employed by, a real life (click the link) campaigning website focusing mainly on consumer issues. Jack McEvoy first appeared in 1996 in The Poet and it was 13 years before we next met him again in The Scarecrow so he’s well overdue for another outing.
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