Name: Every Dead Thing: A Charlie Parker Thriller
SKU: 48477102
Price: 409.00 ZAR
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Author: John Connolly
ISBN: 9781501122620

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Every Dead Thing: A Charlie Parker Thriller

Type

Physical Book

Author

John Connolly

Publisher

Atria Books

Language

English

Pages

512

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3x13.5x3.8 cm

Weight

0.41 kg.

ISBN13

9781501122620

Synopsis "Every Dead Thing: A Charlie Parker Thriller"

Tortured and brilliant private detective Charlie Parker stars in this thriller by New York Times bestselling author John Connolly. Former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker is on the verge of madness. Tortured by the unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter, he is a man consumed by guilt, regret, and the desire for revenge. When his former partner asks him to track down a missing girl, Parker finds himself drawn into a world beyond his imagining: a world where thirty-year-old killings remain shrouded in fear and lies, a world where the ghosts of the dead torment the living, a world haunted by the murderer responsible for the deaths in his family--a serial killer who uses the human body to create works of art and takes faces as his prize. But the search awakens buried instincts in Parker: instincts for survival, for compassion, for love, and, ultimately, for killing. Aided by a beautiful young psychologist and a pair of bickering career criminals, Parker becomes the bait in a trap set in the humid bayous of Louisiana, a trap that threatens the lives of everyone in its reach. Driven by visions of the dead and the voice of an old black psychic who met a terrible end, Parker must seek a final, brutal confrontation with a murderer who has moved beyond all notions of humanity, who has set out to create a hell on earth: the serial killer known only as the Traveling Man. In the tradition of classic American detective fiction, Every Dead Thing is a tense, richly plotted thriller, filled with memorable characters and gripping action. It is also a profoundly moving novel, concerned with the nature of loyalty, love, and forgiveness. Lyrical and terrifying, it is an ambitious debut, triumphantly realized.

John Connolly

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John Connolly (Dublín, 1968) es un escritor irlandés reconocido por su serie de novelas negras protagonizadas por el detective Charlie Parker. Tras una carrera como periodista en The Irish Times, debutó en la ficción con Every Dead Thing (1999), que recibió el Shamus Award a la mejor primera novela. Su obra ha sido traducida a más de 30 idiomas y ha cosechado premios como el Edgar, el Anthony y el Barry. Además de la serie de Charlie Parker, ha escrito novelas como The Book of Lost Things y The Land of Lost Things, y ha publicado colecciones de relatos como Nocturnes y Night Music.

Ejemplo de su obra: Los mensajeros de la oscuridad (The Instruments of Darkness, 2024), la vigésima segunda entrega de la serie de Charlie Parker. En esta novela, una madre acusada de un crimen atroz recurre a Parker para investigar la desaparición de su hijo. La obra ha sido descrita como "una de las mejores novelas de la serie" y se caracteriza por su mezcla de suspense, oscuridad y elementos sobrenaturales, además de explorar temas de bondad, lealtad y amor. La crítica ha destacado su capacidad para dejar a los lectores sin aliento y conmocionados.

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