The Poet Our hero is Jack McEvoy, a Rocky Mountain News crime-beat reporter. As the vel opens, Jack's twin brother, a Denver homicide detective, has just killed himself. Or so it seems. But when Jack begins to investigate the phemen of police suicides, a disturbing pattern emerges, and soon suspects that a serial murderer is at work a devious cop killer who's left a coast-to-coast trail of suicide tes drawn from the poems of Edgar Allan Poe. It's the story of a lifetime except that the Poet already seems to kw that Jack is trailing him. Here is definitive proof that Michael Connelly is among the best suspense velists working today. Blood Work Thanks to a heart transplant, former FBI agent Terrell McCaleb is enjoying a quiet retirement, revating the fishing boat he lives on in Los Angeles Harbor. But McCaleb's calm seas turn choppy when a story in the What Happened To? column of the LA Times brings him face-to-face with the sister of the woman whose heart w beats in his chest. From her, McCaleb learns a terrible truth: that the dor of his heart was t killed in an accident, as he'd been told, but was murdered. Wracked with guilt over the fact that he's alive because ather human being was killed, McCaleb embarks on a private investigation of his dor's murder a crime as horrific as anything he ever encountered as a serial killer investigator for the FBI.