John Connolly
4) He: a novel
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary reimagining of the life of one of the greatest screen comedians the world has ever known: a man who knew both adoration and humiliation; who loved, and was loved in turn; who betrayed, and was betrayed; who never sought to cause pain to others, yet left a trail of affairs and broken marriages in his wake. And whose life was ultimately defined by one relationship of such tenderness and devotion that only death could sever it: his partnership...
Author
Series
Charlie Parker volume 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recovering from a near-fatal shooting and tormented by memories of a world beyond this one, Parker has retreated to the small Maine town of Boreas to recover. There he befriends a widow named Ruth Winter and her young daughter, Amanda. But Ruth has her secrets. She is hiding from the past, and the forces that threaten her have their origins in the Second World War, in a town called Lubko and a concentration camp unlike any other.
Author
Series
Charlie Parker volume 14
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jerome Burnel was once a hero. He intervened to prevent multiple killings and in doing so damned himself. His life was torn apart. He was imprisoned, brutalised. But in his final days, with the hunters circling, he tells his story to private detective Charlie Parker, speaking 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...
Author
Series
Charlie Parker volume 10
Language
English
Description
Randall Haight has a secret: when he was a teenager, he and his friend killed a 14-year-old girl. He did his time and built a new life in the small Maine town of Pastor's Bay. Now somebody has discovered the truth and he is being tormented by anonymous messages. He hires private detective Charlie Parker to make them stop.
Author
Series
Charlie Parker volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the depths of the Maine woods, the wreckage of an aeroplane is discovered. There are no bodies, and no such plane has ever been reported missing, but men both good and evil have been seeking it for a long, long time. What the wreckage conceals is more important than money: it is power.
12) The unquiet
Author
Series
Charlie Parker volume 6
Language
English
Description
Daniel Clay, a once-respected psychologist, has been missing for years following revelations about harm done to the children in his care. Merrick, a father & killer obsessed with discovering the truth about his daughter's disappearance, starts to ask questions, & it's private detective Charlie Parker's job to make him go away.
13) The whisperers
Author
Series
Charlie Parker volume 9
Language
English
Description
The border between Maine and Canada is porous. Anything can be smuggled across it: drugs, cash, weapons, people. Now a group of disenchanted former soldiers has begun its own smuggling operation, and what is being moved is infinitely stranger and more terrifying than anyone can imagine.
14) A game of ghosts
Author
Series
Charlie Parker volume 15
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
It is deep winter. The darkness is unending. The private detective named Jaycob Eklund has vanished, and Charlie Parker is dispatched 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. Eklund is no ordinary investigator. He is obsessively tracking a series of homicides and disappearances, each linked to reports of hauntings. Now Parker will be drawn into...
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
As 12-year-old David takes refuge from his grief in the myths and fairytales so beloved of his dead mother, he finds the real world and fantasy world begin to blend. Bad things start to happen, and David is propelled into a land populated by heroes, wolves and monsters in his quest to find the legendary 'Book of Lost Things'.
18) Every dead thing
Author
Series
Charlie Parker volume 1
Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Tormented by guilt over the brutal slaying of his wife and daughter, Charlie 'Bird' Parker, ex-cop with the NYPD, agrees to find a missing girl. The search leads him into an abyss of evil and he is warned that The Travelling Man will strike again.
Author
Series
Charlie Parker volume 12
Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
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 of a homeless man and the disappearance of his daughter draw the haunted, lethal private investigator Charlie...
20) Conquest
Author
Publisher
Headline
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The start of an epic new series. Earth is no longer ours. It is ruled by the Illyri, a beautiful, civilised yet ruthless alien species. But humankind has not given up the fight, and Paul Kerr is one of a new generation of young Resistance leaders waging war on the invaders. Syl Hellais is the first of the Illyri to be born on Earth. Trapped inside the walls of her father's stronghold, hated by the humans, she longs to escape. But on her sixteenth...