Jack McEvoy

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John "Jack" McEvoy is a literary character created by Michael Connelly in the 1996 novel the Poet and starring again it its second sequel the Scarecrow thirteen years later. In the interim, McEvoy appeared in one Harry Bosch novel – 2001's A Darkness More Than Night – and one Mickey Haller novel – 2008's The Brass Verdict.

Fictional biography

Jack was born in 1962, the son of Millie and Tom McEvoy, the twin brother of Sean McEvoy, the younger brother of Sarah McEvoy (who died in 1976), and the brother-in-law of Riley McEvoy. He grew up in Colorado before going to college at the Medill School of Journalism in Chicago, Illinois. After college, he traveled to Paris, then returned to Colorado and took a position covering the murder beat for the Rocky Mountain News.

He moved to Los Angeles in the late-1990s and covered the crime beat for the Times.