A former newspaper reporter who worked the crime beat at the Los Angeles Times and the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Connelly has won numerous awards for his journalism and his fiction. With over eighty-five million copies of his books sold worldwide and translated into forty-five foreign languages, he is one of the most successful writers working today.

Michael Connelly is the bestselling author of more than thirty novels and one work of nonfiction. Connelly is one of those masters of structure who can keep driving the story forward, paragraph by paragraph, in runaway-locomotive style.'- USA Today About the Author Connelly writes suspense out of every possible aspect of Jack's obsessive hunt for his brother's killer.'- Kirkus Reviews 'Pulse Pounding. Connelly doesn't just talk about poets, he writes like one, with a spare, elegiac tone that is the perfect voice for the haunting tale he has to tell.'- People 'Connelly keeps a surprise up his sleeve until the very end of this authoritatively orchestrated thriller.'- Publishers Weekly 'Prepare to be played like a violin. The Poet Rings True.'- San Francisco Examiner 'An intriguing new protagonist. The Poet Rings True.' San Francisco Examiner ' 'Chilling. The Poet Rings True.' 'San Francisco Examiner'' 'Chilling. The Poet Rings True.'-San Francisco Examiner 'Chilling. The Poet Rings True.' - San Francisco Examiner 'Chilling.

The Poet by Michael Connelly