Author: johnconnolly
From a New York Times bestselling author “writing at the top of his game” (Publishers Weekly starred review): Go back to the beginning of PI Charlie Parker’s career as he tracks down a killer targeting young women. A “satisfying read for crime buffs” (Kirkus Reviews) with over 3,300 five-star reviews on Goodreads.
Hailed internationally as a page-turner in a league with the fiction of Thomas Harris, this lyrical and terrifying bestseller is the stunning achievement of an “extravagantly gifted” (Kirkus Reviews) new novelist. John Connolly superbly taps into the tortured mind and gritty world of former NYPD detective Charlie “Bird” Parker, tormented by the brutal, unsolved murders of his wife and young … young daughter. Driven by visions of the dead, Parker tracks a serial killer from New York City to the American South, and finds his buried instincts — for love, survival, and, ultimately, for killing — awakening as he confronts…
A USA TODAY Bestseller “Complex, pulse-pounding…Connolly’s nuanced characterizations and facility at creating spooky atmospherics make it easy to suspend disbelief about the threat of cosmic horror from other dimensions.”–Publishers Weekly (starred review) Private Investigator Charlie Parker returns in this heart-pounding thriller as he seeks revenge against the darkest forces in the world, … revenge against the darkest forces in the world, from the internationally bestselling author of the acclaimed The Woman in the Woods. He is our best hope. He is our last hope. On a lonely moor in northern England, the body of a young woman is discovered. In…
“Fans will agree that this is Connolly’s masterpiece” (Publishers Weekly): When a body is discovered in the woods, PI Charlie Parker races to find the dead woman’s missing child. But he’s not the only one looking for the infant…
New York Times bestselling author John Connolly’s unique imagination takes readers through the end of innocence into adulthood and beyond in this dark and triumphantly creative novel of grief and loss, loyalty and love, and the redemptive power of stories. High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother. He is angry and alone, with only the books on his shelf for … the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness, and as he takes refuge in his imagination, he finds that reality and fantasy…
From a New York Times bestselling author and “one of the best thriller writers we have” (Harlan Coben): A former police detective whose own past is riddled with tragic deaths is compelled to join the hunt for the killer who claimed a mother and child. “Hard-edged and compulsively readable” (Publishers Weekly).