01201cam a2200253 4500 545760814 TxAuBib 090731t20102008||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780446401203 pbk 044640120X pbk (OCoLC)2045 BTCTA BTCTA DMM TxAuBib Connelly, Michael, 1956- The scarecrow / Michael Connelly. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2010. ©2008. 562 p ; 19 cm. Includes excerpt from Nine dragons (p. [547]-562). 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 Winslows 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. Journalists Fiction. Serial murder investigation Fiction. Computer industry Fiction. Los Angeles (Calif) Fiction.