The scarecrow

By Michael Connelly

Subjects: Serial murders, fiction, Fiction, Journalists, Computer industry, fiction, Journalists-Fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Los Angeles(Calif.)-Fiction, Serial murder investigation-Fiction, Computer industry-Fiction, New York Times bestseller, Computer industry, Journalists, fiction, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2009-06-14, Serial murder investigation

Description: Newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to use his final days at the LA Times to write the definitive murder story of his career. Focusing on the case of Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder, Jack realizes that Winslow's so-called confession is bogus and that the real killer is operating completely below police radar--and with perfect knowledge of any move against him.