John Connolly

Every Dead Thing

Published 2000-07-01 · 467 pages

John Connolly superbly taps into the tortured mind and gritty world of former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" 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 American South, and finds his buried instincts -- for love, survival, and, ultimately, for killing -- awakening as he confronts a monster beyond imagining...

The Book of Lost Things

Published 2006-11-07 · 346 pages

High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness. Angry and alone, he takes refuge in his imagination and soon finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld.

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The Gates

Published 2009 · 272 pages

The Killing Kind

388 pages

The Lovers

Published 2009-06-02 · 344 pages

Charlie Parker is haunted by a man and a woman who appear to have only one purpose: to end to Parker's existence.

The White Road

Published 2002 · 457 pages

In South Carolina, a young black man faces the death penalty for the rape and murder of Marianne Larousse, daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the state. It's a case that nobody wants to touch, a case with its roots in old evil, and old evil is private detective Charlie Parker's speciality. But Parker is about to make a descent into the abyss, a confrontation with dark forces that threaten all that Parker holds dear: his lover, his unborn child, even his soul...