John Connolly
Author
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old David's grief over his mother's death at the start of World War II intensifies with his father's remarriage and the impending birth of a sibling, so when his books begin talking to him, tempting him to enter a portal into a magical world, he decides to take the risk.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The next pulse-pounding thriller in John Connolly's internationally bestselling Charlie Parker series. 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...
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
465 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Private investigator Charlie Parker descends upon a strange, isolated community called the Cut, and will face down a force of men who rule by terror, intimidation, and murder"--
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
392 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1693, the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed to their enemies and slaughtered. Since then, the island has known three hundred years of peace. Until now. A group of men are descending on Sanctuary, their purpose to hunt down and kill the wife of their leader and retrieve the money that she stole from him. All that stands in their way are a young rookie officer, Sharon Macy, and Melancholy Joe Dupree, the island's strange,...
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
452 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Internationally bestselling author John Connolly returns with another "superb fusion of noir and the supernatural" (My Bookish Ways) in this latest thriller in his gripping Charlie Parker series. It is deep winter and the darkness is unending. A private detective named Jaycob Eklund has vanished and Charlie Parker is assigned to track him down. Parker's employer, Edgar Ross, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has his own reasons for...
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
504 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Chaos and murder arrive in Charlie Parker's hometown of Portland, Maine, with two connected crimes which prove to be among the most complicated of Parker's entire career"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In Amsterdam, four bodies, violently butchered, are discovered in a canal house, the remains of friends and confidantes of the assassin known only as Louis. The men responsible for the murders are Serbian war criminals. They believe they can escape retribution by retreating to their homeland. They are wrong. For Louis has come to Europe to hunt them down: five killers to be found and punished before they can vanish into thin air. There is just one...
10) A book of bones
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
674 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
He is our best hope.
He is our last hope.
On a lonely moor in northern England, the body of a young woman is discovered. In the south, a girl lies buried beneath a Saxon mound. To the southeast, the ruins of a priory hide a human skull.
Each is a sacrifice, a summons. And something in the darkness has heard the call.
Charlie Parker has also heard it and from the forests of Maine to the deserts of the Mexican border, from the canals of Amsterdam to...
11) Filthy rich
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City's financial elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers--and for people--Epstein amassed his wealth through a combination of access and skill. But even after he had it all, Epstein wanted more. And that unceasing desire--especially a taste for young girls--resulted in his stunning fall from grace. From Epstein himself, to the girls he employed as masseuses...