Michael Connelly is the bestselling author of the Harry Bosch series of novels as well as The Poet, Blood Work, Void Moon, Chasing the Dime, and the #1 New York Times bestseller The Lincoln Lawyer. He is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels. He spends his time in California and Florida.
I began this novel as an art heist, a contemporary story .. but then the second thread of the story is a historical story, in which [Marc] Chagall is a character. There's a particular Yiddish writer, Der Nister (which means The Hidden One) who actually was a real person and was Chagall's roommate, and there's a story about their friendship its dissolution.
Veteran newspaperman Jack McEvoy has lost his job at the L.A. Times, but still has one more story he has to finish, in Michael Connelly's thriller "The Scarecrow." Yes, it is a murder story, yes there is a dastardly villain, but the real scary part of the story -- well, one of the scary parts -- is Connelly's account of the death spiral of the American daily newspaper.
I began this novel as an art heist, a contemporary story .. but then the second thread of the story is a historical story, in which [Marc] Chagall is a character. There's a particular Yiddish writer, Der Nister (which means The Hidden One) who actually was a real person and was Chagall's roommate, and there's a story about their friendship its dissolution. 
