An investigative reporter learns that a one-night stand is murdered, and he is a peripheral suspect; thus he decides to investigate the murder himself, and finds himself in the sights of a serial killer and in the middle of a dark web conspiracy in Michael Connelly's Fair Warning.
Connelly is probably best known as the author of the long-running Harry Bosch crime series, which I admire greatly, and then probably for The Lincoln Lawyer novels, which features Bosch's half-brother; but he occasionally features other protagonists from the same general milieu.
Jack McEvoy was the lead in The Poet and The Scarecrow and because of circumstances in those novels has tumbled quite a ways from lead bylines in prominent LA papers to writing for a consumer website. His off and on again love interest, Rachel Walling, has also lost her job as an FBI profiler (because of McEvoy!) and is now doing corporate background checks. Yet both still have the fire in the blood for crime, and each other.
They start chasing The Shrike, who they quickly find out is targeting women using a DNA website like Ancestry.com or 23 and Me.
This novel is a slow boil that continues to ratchet and ratchet the tension to an explosive finale, and a second chance for several characters.
Connelly is a solid writer and this is a decent thriller to add to his admirable bibliography.
I checked this out from the Bookmobile for the New Castle-Henry County Public Library--my first library in six months--and read it quickly.
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