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Every Dead Thing, 1 - (Charlie Parker) by John Connolly (Paperback)

Every Dead Thing, 1 - (Charlie Parker) by  John Connolly (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>PI Charlie Parker, a former New York policeman, searches for the killer of his wife and daughter. Two women help him, a pretty criminal psychologist and an old Creole woman with psychic vision.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Tortured and brilliant private detective Charlie Parker stars in this thriller by <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author John Connolly.</b> <p/>Former NYPD detective Charlie Bird Parker is on the verge of madness. Tortured by the unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter, he is a man consumed by guilt, regret, and the desire for revenge. When his former partner asks him to track down a missing girl, Parker finds himself drawn into a world beyond his imagining: a world where thirty-year-old killings remain shrouded in fear and lies, a world where the ghosts of the dead torment the living, a world haunted by the murderer responsible for the deaths in his family--a serial killer who uses the human body to create works of art and takes faces as his prize. But the search awakens buried instincts in Parker: instincts for survival, for compassion, for love, and, ultimately, for killing. <p/>Aided by a beautiful young psychologist and a pair of bickering career criminals, Parker becomes the bait in a trap set in the humid bayous of Louisiana, a trap that threatens the lives of everyone in its reach. Driven by visions of the dead and the voice of an old black psychic who met a terrible end, Parker must seek a final, brutal confrontation with a murderer who has moved beyond all notions of humanity, who has set out to create a hell on earth: the serial killer known only as the Traveling Man. <p/>In the tradition of classic American detective fiction, <i>Every Dead Thing</i> is a tense, richly plotted thriller, filled with memorable characters and gripping action. It is also a profoundly moving novel, concerned with the nature of loyalty, love, and forgiveness. Lyrical and terrifying, it is an ambitious debut, triumphantly realized.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Every Dead Thing</i> is intelligent, deep, and literate, and it is difficult to believe that this is John Connolly's first novel, so confident is the writing...Buy it and be scared.-- "The Saturday Times (London)"<br><br>"A genre of one."-- "BookReporter.com"<br><br>"A unique voice."-- "New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly"<br><br>"Connolly is a master of suggestion, creating mood and suspense with ease, and unflinchingly presents a hard-eyed look at the horrors that can lurk in quiet, rustic settings."-- "Publishers Weekly"<br><br>"Connolly transcends."-- "Los Angeles Times"<br><br>"Leaves unshakable images lurking on the edge of the reader's consciousness."-- "Booklist"<br><br>"One of the best thriller writers we have."-- "#1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben"<br><br>"Powerful...Both harrowing and memorable."-- "Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"<br><br>"Strongly recommended for plot, characterization, authenticity... horror... and humanity."-- "Library Journal (starred review)"<br><br>A stunner...as riveting and chilling as <i>The Silence of the Lambs.</i>-- "San Francisco Examiner"<br>

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