The Scarecrow (Connelly novel)

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The Scarecrow

First edition
Author	Michael Connelly
Language	English
Series	Jack McEvoy, #2
Genre	Crime novel
Published	2009 (Little Brown)
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages	419
ISBN	978-0-316-16630-0
OCLC	298209030
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 22
LC Class	PS3553.O51165 S27 2009
Preceded by	The Brass Verdict
Followed by	9 Dragons

The Scarecrow is a 2009 novel written by American author Michael Connelly. It was Connelly's 21st book (20th novel) and the second featuring as the main character Jack McEvoy, a reporter now living in Los Angeles, and FBI agent Rachel Walling. As a result, the novel is a sequel to the events in Connelly's 1996 book The Poet, although another Connelly novel, The Narrows, was published in 2004 as the "official" sequel to The Poet.^[1] The book was published in the UK and Ireland on May 12, 2009, and in the US and Canada on May 26, 2009.

Although McEvoy has made two subsequent appearances in Connelly's Harry Bosch novels (A Darkness More Than Night and The Brass Verdict), and Walling has appeared in three such novels (The Narrows, Echo Park and The Overlook), this was their first appearance together since The Poet.