Synopses & Reviews
Now available in trade paperback, the first installment of the Charlie Parker series by internationally bestselling author John Connolly.Haunted by the unsolved slayings of his wife and daughter, former New York City detective Charlie Parker is a man consumed by guilt, regret, and the desire for revenge. When his search for a missing woman leads him to the killer who destroyed his family, Parker knows payback time has come at last.
Aided by a beautiful young psychologist and two career criminals, Parker soon becomes the bait in a trap set in the balmy bayous of Louisiana to catch a murderer unlike any other—a monster who believes himself to be an artist and uses the human body as his canvas. Driven by his visions of the dead and the voice of an old Creole psychic, Parker must seek—and win—a final brutal confrontation with the serial killer known as the Traveling Man.
Every Dead Thing is a richly textured, intricately plotted novel that probes the mind of a tormented man whose buried instincts—for love, survival, and even killing—awaken as he confronts a monster beyond imagining and relentlessly pursues justice for the murder of his family.
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"A stunner....As riveting and chilling as
The Silence of the Lambs." -- San Francisco Examiner
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“Stunning. . . .
Every Dead Thing ensnares us in its very first pages and speeds us through a harrowing plot to a riveting climax.”
—#1 internationally bestselling author Jeffery Deaver
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Publisher's Weekly [A] darkly ingenious debut novel.
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The Saturday Times (London) Every Dead Thing 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.
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"Intelligent, deep, and literate....Buy it and be scared."
-- The Saturday Times (London)
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"One of the best thriller writers we have."
-- Harlan Coben
Synopsis
John Connolly's "darkly ingenious debut novel"
(Publishers Weekly, starred review) has been hailed internationally as a page-turner in a league with the fiction of Thomas Harris.
<>EVERY DEAD THING
John Connolly superbly taps into the tortured mind and gritty world of former NYPD detective Charlie Parker, tormented by the brutal, unsolved murders of his wife and young daughter. Driven by visions of the dead, Parker tracks a serial killer from New York City to the Deep South and finds his buried instincts -- for love, survival, and, ultimately, for killing -- awakening as he confronts a monster beyond imagining....
Synopsis
John Connolly is a journalist for The Irish Times. He lives in Dublin, Ireland.
About the Author
John Connolly is the author of The Wrath of Angels, The Burning Soul, The Book of Lost Things, and Bad Men, among many others. He is a regular contributor to The Irish Times and lives in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, see his website at JohnConnollyBooks.com, or follow him on Twitter @JConnollyBooks.