When John Connolly burst upon the literary suspense scene in 1999, he was an immediate international sensation. His Every Dead Thing became an instantaneous bestseller in England, and here in America, his writing was greeted with extraordinary accolades. He won the prestigious Shamus Award for Best First Private Eye Novel, and, as the San Francisco Examiner wrote, “John Connolly’s tale is as … is as riveting and chilling as Thomas Harris’s The Silence of the Lambs and James Patterson’s Kiss the Girls.”
Now, Connolly returns with Dark Hollow, a terrifying and ingenious novel of a murderous spree that reaches back decades into the victims’ pasts. Back again is ex-New York Police Detective Charlie “Bird” Parker, who has returned to his hometown of Scarborough, Maine, after the vicious killings of his wife and daughter; it is time to leave the bloodstained streets of Manhattan and rebuild his family’s house — as well as his own life. But for Bird, returning to his roots means digging through a mountain of terror, as memories of his father’s and grandfather’s untimely deaths resurface and drive him to join the manhunt for the killer of yet another mother and child. Though the obvious suspect is Billy Purdue, the violent former husband of the murdered young woman, another player lurks in this disturbing drama, someone entangled in the dark hollow of Bird’s past.
Darkly atmospheric, tense and imbued with the page-turning ferocity that only the finest crime fiction offers, Dark Hollow is a stunning successor to Every Dead Thing, a testament to the burgeoning power of John Connolly to tell stories that thrill, frighten and haunt the soul.
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This is the second book in John Connolly’s fine Charlie Parker series, and it is the book with which I discovered and fell in love with Connolly’s work. In my humble opinion, there’s no darker, scarier, or more eloquent writer of crime novels than John Connolly. His Charlie Parker series stands well above so many others for both its fine prose and …
Dark Hollow is the second book in John Connolly’s Charlie Parker series. With the one year anniversary of the murder of his wife and daughter approaching P.I. Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker returns to his hometown. He befriends a down and out woman with a small child. When the woman and child are murdered clues seem to point to her former husband. With the …
John Connelly is my favorite author. Love Charlie Parker, can’t get enough. Different, scary, stays with you for quite some time after you have finished reading. I really can’t wait for the next in the series of Charlie Parker
I enjoyed this book very much. I only have one quibble. There was one scene where our wounded, bleeding hero escapes at night by swimming underwater for quite a distance when it was snowing, crawling out onto a snowbank. From all I’ve read about a person diving or falling into ice cold water, there is a huge shock to the person’s body and they …
The series has a sad start but definitely makes you come back for more. .
As with all the books in this series, it is well written and really imaginative.
Barely able to put this down! Sad to see it end, but can’t wait to read the next in the series. It would have been helpful to have read the first in the series as there were multiple references to the past.
Dark and gloomy
His books are always excellent. A very unique story line with characters you really get involved with. Once you have read them you won’t forget them and will wait very impatiently for the next one.
I love John Connolly’s books. They are crime novels with supernatural undertones. You don’t have to have read the previous novels in order to enjoy any one of them, but the same characters appear throughout his novels and it makes them more enjoyable when you see familiar character. Once I read one I went back and started from the first Charlie …