John Connolly is author of the Charlie Parker mysteries, The Book
of Lost Things, the Samuel Johnson novels for young adults and,
with his partner, Jennifer Ridyard, co-author of the Chronicles of
the Invaders. John Connolly's debut - EVERY DEAD THING - introduced
the character of Private Investigator Charlie Parker, and swiftly
launched him right into the front rank of thriller writers. All his
subsequent novels have been Sunday Times bestsellers. He was the
winner of the 2016 CWA Short Story Dagger for On the Anatomization
of an Unknown Man (1637) by Frans Mier from NIGHT MUSIC: Nocturnes
Vol 2.
In 2007 he was awarded the Irish Post Award for Literature. He was
the first non-American writer to win the US Shamus award and the
first Irish writer to win an Edgar award. BOOKS TO DIE FOR, which
he edited with Declan Burke, was the winner of the 2013 Anthony,
Agatha and Macavity awards for Best Non-Fiction work.
One of the writer's finest achievements . . . Connolly has always
been good at the pungent evocation of place, but this
self-contained community, almost existing out of time, is
particularly striking, even in the Connolly lexicon of a
nightmarish, phantasmagoric America. If you are a John Connolly or
Charlie Parker fan . . . you will be adding it to your bedside
table . . . new readers - start here.
*Independent*
The Charlie Parker series has now reached its 14th volume and never
fails to impress . . . just keeps on getting better and better and
increasingly haunting. What began as a particularly atmospheric
series of books featuring a wounded character in search of
redemption in the fogs of rural Maine and other American landscapes
has turned into a major literary triumph . . . Magical, horrific,
poetic, gothic. Unique and rewarding.
*Lovereading*
Fascinating and bone-chilling . . . a beast of a good read and it
has a whopping thumbs up from me
*Lovereading*
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