4 books like Fair Warning

What to read after Fair Warning — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Poet Michael Connelly · 1996 · ★ 4.5 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Moderate An acclaimed novel by the Edgar Award-winning author of The Concrete Blonde follows crime-beat reporter Jack McEvoy as he tracks down a versifying serial killer who preys on police detectives. Shares: Journalists, Serial murders

The Scarecrow Michael Connelly · 2009 · ★ 4.5 Forced out of the Los Angeles Times amid the latest budget cuts, newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to go out with a bang, using his final days at the paperto write the definitive murder story of his career. He focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder. But as he delves into the story, Jack realizes that Winslow's so-called confession is bogus.… Shares: Journalists, Serial murders

The Alienist Caleb Carr · 1994 · ★ 4.3 · 520p · ≈ 17h · Moderate The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan's infamous brothels. … Shares: Journalists, Serial murders

The Scarecrow Michael Connelly · 2009 · 632p · ≈ 21h · Moderate Forced out of the Los Angeles Times amid the latest budget cuts, newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to go out with a bang, using his final days at the paperto write the definitive murder story of his career. He focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder. But as he delves into the story, Jack realizes that Winslow's so-called confession is bogus.… Shares: Journalists, Serial murders

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