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.
[My sponsor] asked me what was a dream I had that drugs and alcohol stole from me. When I was a little girl, before finding my mother dead, my daddy had always told me to be a lawyer, because I had backed him into a corner and made him tell me who Santa Claus was.
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.
[My sponsor] asked me what was a dream I had that drugs and alcohol stole from me. When I was a little girl, before finding my mother dead, my daddy had always told me to be a lawyer, because I had backed him into a corner and made him tell me who Santa Claus was. 
