Staff Pick
John Connolly's latest in the Charlie Parker series delivers high-octane action and supernatural chills. Parker reluctantly takes on a case for an ex-con who claims he was framed and who fears for his life. His disappearance leads Parker to the reclusive Appalachian community known as The Cut. The inhabitants are truly scary "hill people." If you haven't read Connolly and enjoy a spookier noir thriller, this installment will send you power reading through the whole series. Recommended By Kathi K., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
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 story to private detective Charlie Parker. He speaks of the girl who was marked for death, but was saved; of the ones who tormented him, and an entity that hides in a ruined stockade.
Parker is not like other men. He died, and was reborn. He is ready to wage war.
Now he will descend upon a strange, isolated community called the Cut, and face down a force of men who rule by terror, intimidation, and murder.
All in the name of the being they serve. All in the name of the Dead King.
Review
"John Connolly takes the reader kicking and screaming to places they probably didn't know existed.... If you love thriller mysteries with an air of the mystical, then you need to read A Time of Torment!" Literarily Illumined
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"The beauty of John Connolly's Charlie Parker novels is how the characters continue to evolve." The Jacksonville Times
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"Connolly again displays his mastery at combining the hard-boiled with the supernatural." Publishers Weekly (Starred and Boxed Review)
About the Author
John Connolly is the author of the Charlie Parker series of mystery novels, the supernatural collection Nocturnes, the Samuel Johnson Trilogy, and (with Jennifer Ridyard) the Chronicles of the Invaders series. He lives in Dublin, Ireland.