John Connolly
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2022.
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In The Sisters Strange, criminal Raum Buker arrives in Portland, only for a shocking act of theft to threaten not only his own existence but those of his former lovers—the enigmatic sisters Strange. And in the title novel, The Furies, Parker must protect two women under threat as Portland shuts down in the face of a global pandemic. Unbeknownst to him, however, these clients are more capable of taking care of themselves than anyone could have imagined....
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Chaos and murder arrive in Charlie Parker's hometown of Portland, Maine, with two connected crimes in the latest novel in #1 nationally bestselling author John Connolly's "flawless and highly suspenseful" (PopSugar) series.
New York Times bestselling author John Connolly pits Parker against two separate—but vitally connected—investigations, which prove to be among the most complicated of his entire career in this...
New York Times bestselling author John Connolly pits Parker against two separate—but vitally connected—investigations, which prove to be among the most complicated of his entire career in this...
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The New York Times–bestselling author tells the story behind private detective Charlie Parker, the haunted hero of John Connolly's eerie supernatural crime thrillers.
Recounting his days as a journalist for the Irish Times and the Dublin murder that led him to question the ways we think about perpetrators and victims; discussing his crime-fiction idols; and reflecting on empathy and evil, John Connolly offers a short work that lets us learn more...
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2024.
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Working alongside lawyer Moxie Castin to prove the innocence of a woman accused of abducting and possibly murdering of her child, P.I. Charlie Parker, to solve this heart-wrenching case, follows its twists and turns to an old house deep in the Maine woods—house that should have never been built.
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Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pub. Date
2014.
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416 pages cm.
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"The next pulse-pounding thriller in John Connolly's internationally bestselling Charlie Parker series. The community of Prosperous, Maine has always thrived when others have suffered. Its inhabitants are wealthy, its children's future secure. It shuns outsiders. It guards its own. And at the heart of Prosperous lie the ruins of an ancient church, transported stone by stone from England centuries earlier by the founders of the town... But the death...
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Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2013
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474 p. ; 24 cm.
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Racing against a serial killer in the depths of the Maine woods, private detective Charlie Parker searches for a secret list of names in the wreckage of a plane that has never been reported missing.
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Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2018.
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481 pages ; 24 cm
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"From internationally bestselling author and "creative genius who has few equals in either horror fiction or the mystery genre" (New York Journal of Books) comes a gripping thriller starring Private Investigator Charlie Parker. When the body of a woman--who apparently died in childbirth--is discovered, Parker is hired to track down both her identity and her missing child. In the beautiful Maine woods, a partly preserved body is discovered. Investigators...
9) The Reapers
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008
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351 p. ; 24 cm.
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When his friend, a former member of an elite assassin organization, is abducted by a vengeful adversary, Charlie Parker and his associates set out to find him, in a case that forces Charlie to test the boundaries of his ethics.
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Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pub. Date
2015.
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438 pages ; 24 cm.
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"Still recovering from his life-threatening wounds, private detective Charlie Parker investigates a case that has its origins in a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War. Parker has retreated to the small Maine town of Boreas to regain his strength. There he befriends a widow named Ruth Winter and her young daughter, Amanda. But Ruth has her secrets. Old atrocities are about to be unearthed, and old sinners will kill to hide their sins....
11) A game of ghosts
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Emily Bestler Books/Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
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[2017]
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452 pages ; 24 cm.
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It is deep winter and the darkness is unending. A private detective named Jaycob Eklund has vanished and Charlie Parker is assigned to track him down. Parker's employer, Edgar Ross, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has his own reasons for wanting Eklund found.
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Atria Books
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2011
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406 p. ; 24 cm.
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"Randall Haight has a secret: He is a convicted murderer, a man with the blood of a young girl on his hands. He has built a new life for himself in the small Maine town of Pastor's Bay, but someone has discovered the truth about him. He is being tormented by anonymously sent reminders of his crime. He wants private detective Charlie Parker to make them go away. But another girl has gone missing, this time from Pastor's Bay itself, and her family has...
13) The gates
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Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund Boswell are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Halloween. Which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Avenue. The Abernathys don’t mean any harm by their flirtation with the underworld. But when they unknowingly call forth Satan himself, they create a gap in the universe. A gap which holds a pair of enormous gates—the gates to Hell. And there are...
14) The infernals
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011
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311 p. ; 23 cm.
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Targeted by a demon for his role in foiling an invasion of Earth by the forces of evil, Samuel Johnson and his faithful dachshund are transported into a dark realm, where he struggles for survival with the aid of the loyal demon Nurd and a marooned band of little men.
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Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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465 pages ; 24 cm.
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"Dangerous and driven private investigator Charlie Parker returns in the latest gripping thriller of internationally bestselling author John Connolly's series, in which ungodly fears haunt a strange and isolated community. Jerome Burnel was once a hero. He intervened to prevent multiple killings, and in doing so destroyed himself. His life was torn apart. He was imprisoned, brutalized. But in his final days, with the hunters circling, he tells his...
16) The dirty South
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2020.
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"John Connolly returns with a prequel that goes back to the very beginning of Private Investigator Charlie Parker's astonishing career with his first terrifying case"--
17) A book of bones
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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 the south, a girl lies buried beneath a Saxon mound. To the southeast, the ruins of a priory hide a human skull. Each is a sacrifice, a summons. And something in the darkness has heard the call. Charlie Parker has also heard it and from the forests of Maine to the deserts of the Mexican border, from the canals of Amsterdam to...
18) Conquest
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Chronicles of the invaders trilogy volume 1
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Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
435 pages
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Depicts a world where humanity has been conquered by oppressive alien forces and where a group of increasingly powerful young rebels is assisted by an alien ruler's daughter, who risks her life after falling in love with a human.
19) The Creeps
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Emily Bestler Books
Pub. Date
2013.
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368 pages ; cm
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"In this clever and quirky follow-up to The Gates and The Infernals, Samuel Johnson's life seems to have finally settled down after all, he's still got the company of his faithful dachshund Boswell and his bumbling demon friend Nurd; he has foiled the dreaded forces of darkness not once but twice; and he's now dating the lovely Lucy Highmore. But things in the little English town of Biddlecombe rarely run smoothly for long. Shadows are gathering...
20) Dominion
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Chronicles of the invaders trilogy volume 3
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Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2016.
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440 pages ; 24 cm.
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"The third thrilling Chronicles of the Invaders adventure from New York Times bestselling author John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard mixes classic sci-fi with rich, character-driven plot, as Paul and Syl fight to save Earth from an enemy who is closer than ever. Syl Hellais and Paul Kerr have traveled through Derith, the mysterious wormhole from which no traveler has ever returned. Yet Derith's secrets are darker than they imagined, and trapped in...