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TexasProgresive

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14. Just beginning Michael Connelly's "The Poet"

Sun Jan 21, 2018, 03:10 PM

Jan 2018

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This is a stand alone novel. I has forward by none other than Stephen King. About it he writes; "The first thing you need to know about this novel is it's a marvelous and sustained piece of story telling,..."
The second thing you need to know about The Poet is that it is genuinely terrifying."

It starts out normal enough for a mystery/thriller but isn't that the way of King's books. The 1st chapter is so so normal but hidden there is a little twist that grows into a horror. We'll see if it is as Mr King wrote.

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