Every Dead Thing

Shamus Award, 2000

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781529342581

Price: £9.99

ON SALE: 3rd October 2019

Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Crime & Mystery

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The gripping first Charlie Parker novel from bestselling author John Connolly – perfect for fans of Stephen King and Jeffery Deaver.

Tormented and racked with guilt over the brutal slaying of his wife and daughter, Charlie Parker, ex-cop with the NYPD, agrees to track down a missing girl. It is a search that will lead him into an abyss of evil. At the same time, he is warned by an old black woman in Louisiana that ‘The Travelling Man’ is about to strike again. Multiple strands converge with a horrific confrontation in which hunter and hunted are intimately connected by guilt.

Reviews

A genuine, gripping page-turner which shreds the nerves.
Daily Telegraph
An ambitious, moral, disturbing tale with a stunning climax.
<i>The Times</i>
A stunning debut . . . EVERY DEAD THING ensnares us in its very first pages and speeds us through a harrowing plot to a riveting climax.
Jeffery Deaver
No mere shocker . . . intelligent, deep and literate . . . it is difficult to believe that this is John Connolly's first novel, so confident is the writing . . . Buy it and be scared
The Times
Painstaking research, superb characterisation, and an ability to tell a story that's chilling and thought provoking make this a terrific thriller
Mirror
A tremendous achievement . . . he writes with self assured intelligence and shows every sign of being a master in this genre
The List
Prepare to have the spine tingled by this one.
Vincent Banville, Irish Times