Every Dead Thing: A Charlie Parker Thriller - Charlie Parker

Publisher Marketing: 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. Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/1999 pg. 66 (EAN 9780684857145, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 03/01/1999 pg. 313 (EAN 9780684857145, Hardcover) Booklist 03/15/1999 pg. 1291 (EAN 9780684857145, Hardcover) Library Journal 05/01/1999 pg. 108 (EAN 9780684857145, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 03/22/1999 pg. 66 (EAN 9780684857145, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/1999 pg. 17 (EAN 9780684857145, Hardcover) Library Journal 01/01/1999 (EAN 9780684857145, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Connolly, John John Connolly is the author of the Charlie Parker series of mystery novels, the supernatural collection "Nocturnes", and the Samuel Johnson and Conquest of the Invaders series for younger readers. He lives in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, see his website at JohnConnollyBooks.com, or follow him on Twitter @JConnollyBooks.