John Connolly Libros

Una nueva entrega de la serie Charlie Parker, quien se interna en el pasado de varios personajes decididamente malvados, y en el presente de una comunidad regida por el mal. Jerome Burnel se convirtió, años ha, cuando trabajaba para una joyería, en un héroe (a su pesar). Intervino para evitar un homicidio múltiple, pero en su empeño se destruyó a sí mismo. Su vida familiar y profesional se truncó, y él acabó encarcelado, embrutecido. Fuerzas desconocidas le humillaron, enviándolo a prisión por un crimen que no cometió. Cree que es cuestión de tiempo el que esas fuerzas lo maten, pero antes de morir quiere respuestas, y recurre al detective privado Charlie Parker. Le habla entonces de la chica que estaba marcada para la muerte, pero fue salvada; le habla de los que lo atormentaban, y de una comunidad que se esconde en una empalizada en ruinas…Parker no es como los demás hombres. Murió, y volvió a nacer. Está listo para presentar batalla. Y se acercará (junto a sus viejos amigos Angel y Louis) a una misteriosa y aislada comunidad, The Cut, en la que rigen el terror, la intimidación y el asesinato, todo ello en nombre del ser al que sirven; todo en nombre del Rey Muerto.

Aún afectado por los brutales asesinatos de su esposa e hija, y los eventos que rodearon la captura de su asesino, El Hombre Errante, Charlie Parker se retira al paisaje invernal de Maine de su infancia. Siguiendo los pasos de su querido abuelo, Parker espera sanar su espíritu y sobrellevar el amargo aniversario de los asesinatos de Jennifer y Susan. Sin embargo, los ecos del pasado que lo esperan no son todos benignos. En una escalofriante recreación de las pesadillas de Parker, otra joven es asesinada junto a su hijo, y su breve implicación en sus vidas lo impulsa a cazar al despiadado asesino. A medida que la cifra de muertos aumenta, Parker se da cuenta de que la verdadera respuesta al enigma se encuentra treinta años en el pasado, en un árbol con extraños frutos, en la historia de su propio abuelo y en los deseos pervertidos de un monstruo encarnado: Caleb Kyle.

Es una coleccin̤ de relatos sobrenaturales, de suspense y terror que sigue la estela del trabajo de los grandes maestros del gňero como Ray Bradbury o Stephen King, aunque nunca pierde la nota distintiva de las historias creadas por John Connolly. En estos relatos encontrars̀ historias sobre amantes perdidos, niǫs desaparecidos, demonios deprededadores y fantasmas vengativos

Para Louis, ir al trullo con una condena por maricón era prácticamente una garantía de dolor y sufrimiento. Era mejor entrar con la fama de haberle quitado la vida a otro hombre. Al menos, eso aseguraba cierto respeto. A Wooster ni siquiera le interesaba ver al chico en la silla eléctrica. Para él, bastaba con demostrar a los otros su error: la policía del estado, su propia gente, que se había reído a sus espaldas por creer que un chico negro era capaz de un crimen tan sofisticado.En esta séptima entrega de la serie policiaca protagonizada por Charlie Parker, el ex policía –que vive atormentado desde el asesinato de su primera mujer y su hija– ha perdido su licencia de investigador privado y el permiso de armas, y se gana la vida trabajando de camarero en un bar.

Una noche, Charlie 'Bird' Parker, inspector del Departamento de Polica̕ de Nueva York, discute por enšima vez con su mujer y sale a tomar unas copas; cuando vuelve a casa, se encuentra a su mujer y a su hija de tres aǫs salvajemente asesinadas. Entre los sospechosos figura el propio Parker, pero el crimen no podr ̀resolverse. Incapaz de superar los sentimientos de culpabilidad y expulsado del cuerpo de polica̕, Parker se convierte en un hombre atormentado, violento y deseoso de venganza

The Number One bestseller. It is spring, and the semi-preserved body of a young Jewish woman is discovered buried in the Maine woods. It is clear that she gave birth shortly before her death. But there is no sign of a baby. Private detective Charlie Parker is engaged by the lawyer Moxie Castin to shadow the police investigation and find the infant, but Parker is not the only searcher. Someone else is following the trail left by the woman, someone with an interest in more than a missing child, someone prepared to leave bodies in his wake. And in a house by the woods, a toy telephone begins to ring. For a young boy is about to receive a call from a dead woman . . .

Grievously wounded private detective Charlie Parker investigates a case that has its origins in a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War. Broken, but undeterred, private detective Charlie Parker faces the darkest of dark forces in a case with its roots in the second world war, and a concentration camp unlike any other . . . Recovering from a near-fatal shooting and tormented by memories of a world beyond this one, Parker has retreated to the small Maine town of Boreas to recover. There he befriends a widow named Ruth Winter and her young daughter, Amanda. But Ruth has her secrets. She is hiding from the past, and the forces that threaten her have their origins in the Second World War, in a town called Lubko and a concentration camp unlike any other. Old atrocities are about to be unearthed, and old sinners will kill to hide their sins. Now Parker is about to risk his life to defend a woman he barely knows, one who fears him almost as much as she fears those who are coming for her. His enemies believe him to be vulnerable. Fearful. Solitary. But they are wrong. Parker is far from afraid, and far from alone. For something is emerging from the shadows . . .

Three funny, scary adventures of a small boy with a dachshund, demons, science - and footnotes - in one volume.

All hardbacks in the first print run will be signed by the author. John Connolly - Sunday Times bestselling author, creator of the private investigator Charlie Parker - presents Irish genre fiction within the Irish literary tradition.

A mother's worst fear realised; a court case that reveals the darkest of secrets - The Instruments of Darkness thrills from the very first page.

The second in the epic Chronicles of the Invaders trilogy by bestselling author John Connolly, and Jennifer Ridyard. For fans of THE 5TH WAVE and I AM NUMBER FOUR. She is the trophy of a civilization at war with itself. He is its rebel captive. Separated by millions of light years, their dreams are united. And they will risk everything to make their world - all worlds - right again. EMPIRE. The second in the epic Chronicles of the Invaders series.

Prepare to meet the most seductively female and shockingly fatal femme fatales, brought to you by seventeen of today’s finest authors of mystery and suspense fiction. Award-winning editor Otto Penzler presents a collection of short, sizzling masterpieces filled with thrilling tales that showcase how sexy and fierce the 'gentler sex' can be. In 'Third Party', a party girl takes you on a wild ride through the Paris night, while Nelson DeMille's 'Rendezvous' plunges you into a Vietnam jungle where the deadliest scourge is a woman. Elmore Leonard introduces a Depression-era teenage gun moll in 'Louly and Pretty Boy', who loves Pretty Boy Floyd more than robbing filling stations. Lorenzo Carcaterra's 'A Thousand Miles from Nowhere' features a smart blonde seeking slow-simmered vengeance, and Michael Connelly's 'Cielo Azul' reveals how a nameless woman found dead in Los Angeles can be the most lethal prey. Other riveting tales include a scorned lover claiming an old fling's heart, a mysterious woman offering a tempting suicide pact, and a she-demon rising from the grave. These and many other bad girls cast their criminal spells through the powerful voices of Joyce Carol Oates, John Connolly, Thomas H. Cook, Jeffrey Deaver, and more, in stories as irresistible as the anti-heroines that blaze through their pages.

The Black Angel is not an object. The Black Angel is not a myth. The Black Angel lives. A young woman goes missing from the streets of New York. Those who have taken her believe that nobody cares about her, and that no one will come looking for her. They are wrong. She is 'blood' to the killer Louis, the man who stands at the right hand of private detective Charlie Parker, and Louis will tear apart anyone who stands in the way of his attempts to find her. But as Louis's violent search progresses, Parker comes to realize that the disappearance is part of an older mystery, one that is linked to an ornate church of bones in Eastern Europe, to the slaughter at a French monastery in 1944, and to the quest for a mythical prize that has been sought for centuries by evil men: the Black Angel. Yet the Black Angel is more than a myth. It is conscious. It dreams. It is alive. And men are not the only creatures that seek it . . .

The annual thrilling instalment of John Connolly's popular Charlie Parker series. It is deep winter. The darkness is unending. The private detective named Jaycob Eklund has vanished, and Charlie Parker is dispatched to track him down. Parker's employer, Edgar Ross, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has his own reasons for wanting Eklund found. Eklund is no ordinary investigator. He is obsessively tracking a series of homicides and disappearances, each linked to reports of hauntings. Now Parker will be drawn into Eklund's world, a realm in which the monstrous Mother rules a crumbling criminal empire, in which men strike bargains with angels, and in which the innocent and guilty alike are pawns in a game of ghosts . . .

Did Grace Peltier commit suicide? When a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the final resting place of a religious community that disappeared 40 years ago, private detective Charlie Parker realises that their deaths are part of the same mystery.

In South Carolina, a young black man faces the death penalty for the rape and murder of Marianne Larousse, daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the state. It's a case that nobody wants to touch, a case with its roots in old evil, and old evil is private detective Charlie Parker's speciality. But Parker is about to make a descent into the abyss, a confrontation with dark forces that threaten all that Parker holds dear: his lover, his unborn child, even his soul. . . For in a prison cell, a fanatical preacher is about to take his revenge on Charlie Parker, its instruments the very men that Parker is hunting, and a strange, hunched creature that keeps its own secrets buried by a riverbank: the undiscovered killer Cyrus Nairn. Soon, all of these figures will face a final reckoning in southern swamps and northern forests, in distant locations linked by a single thread, a place where the paths of the living and the dead converge. A place known only as the White Road.

Prosperous, and the secret that it hides beneath its ruins . . . 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 of a homeless man and the disappearance of his daughter draw the haunted, lethal private investigator Charlie Parker to Prosperous. Parker is a dangerous man, driven by compassion, by rage, and by the desire for vengeance. In him the town and its protectors sense a threat graver than any they have faced in their long history, and in the comfortable, sheltered inhabitants of a small Maine town, Parker will encounter his most vicious opponents yet.

Parker fears no evil. But evil fears him . . .

John Connolly recreates the golden age of Hollywood for an intensely compassionate study of the tension between commercial demands and artistic integrity and the human frailties behind even the greatest of artists. An extraordinary reimagining of the life of one of the greatest screen comedians the world has ever known: a man who knew both adoration and humiliation; who loved, and was loved in turn; who betrayed, and was betrayed; who never sought to cause pain to others, yet left a trail of affairs and broken marriages in his wake . . . And whose life was ultimately defined by one relationship of such tenderness and devotion that only death could sever it: his partnership with the man he knew as Babe. he is Stan Laurel. But he did not really exist. Stan Laurel was a fiction. With he , John Connolly recreates the golden age of Hollywood for an intensely compassionate study of the tension between commercial demands and artistic integrity, the human frailties behind even the greatest of artists, and one of the most enduring and beloved partnerships in cinema history: Laurel &Hardy.

Randall Haight has a secret: when he was a teenager, he and his friend killed a 14-year-old girl. Randall did his time and built a new life in the small Maine town of Pastor's Bay, but somebody has discovered the truth about Randall. He is being tormented by anonymous messages, haunting reminders of his past crime, and he wants private detective Charlie Parker to make it stop. But another 14-year-old girl has gone missing, this time from Pastor's Bay, and the missing girl's family has its own secrets to protect. Now Parker must unravel a web of deceit involving the police, the FBI, a doomed mobster named Tommy Morris, and Randall Haight himself. Because Randall Haight is telling lies . . .

Samuel Johnson v. The Devil, Round II. Ask not for whom the bell tolls. Just start running.

It is 1997, and someone is slaughtering young women in Burdon County, Arkansas. But no one in the Dirty South wants to admit it. In an Arkansas jail cell sits a former NYPD detective, stricken by grief. He is mourning the death of his wife and child, and searching in vain for their killer. Obsessed with avenging his lost family, his life is about to take a shocking turn. Witness the dawning of a conscience. Witness the birth of a hunter. Witness the becoming of Charlie Parker.

***THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER*** 'This epic tale deserves all the praise that is coming its way. Phenomenal' Sun In Amsterdam, three people die in a canal house, their remains arranged around the crucified form of their patriarch, De Jaager: fixer, go-between, and confidante of an assassin named 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 the east. There is only one problem. There's a sixth. From the number one Sunday Times and multi-million-copy bestselling author John Connolly comes the most compelling and unsettling thriller yet. The Charlie Parker novels can be read and enjoyed in any order. The Nameless Ones is the nineteenth book in this globally bestselling series.

Charlie Parker returns in the chilling new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE LOVERS

The eleventh Charlie Parker thriller - 'the finest crime series currently in existence' Independent on Sunday číst celé

Unnerving. Unpredictable. Unforgettable: JOHN CONNOLLY IS THE MASTER OF THE SUPERNATURAL THRILLER. Join Charlie Parker as he returns to the dark side for another chilling case.

Krimi. Daniel Clay, en børnepsykiater, er forsvundet efter anklager om, at han har misbrugt forældres tillid og samarbejdet med en pædofili-ring. En af børnenes forældre er ude på hævn, og det skal gå ud over den nu voksne datter Rebecca Clay. Hun søger beskyttelse hos privatdetektiven Charlie Parker

When Charlie Parker was still a boy, his father, an NYPD cop, killed a young couple, a boy and a girl barely older than his son, then took his own life. There was no explanation for his actions. Stripped of his private investigator's license, and watched by the police, Parker is working in a Portland bar, holding down a job and staying out of trouble. But in the background, he is working on his most personal case yet, an investigation into his own origins and the circumstances surrounding the death of his father, Will. It is an investigation that will reveal a life haunted by lies, by his mother's loss and his father's betrayal, by secrets kept and loyalties compromised. And by two figures in the shadows, a man and a woman, with only one purpose: to bring an end to Charlie Parker's existence . . .

Samuel Johnson is not in a happy place.He is dating the wrong girl, demons are occupying his spare room, and the town in which he lives appears to be cursed. But there is some good news on the horizon. After years of neglect, the grand old building that once housed Wreckit & Sons is about to reopen as the greatest toyshop that Biddlecombe has ever seen, and Samuel and his faithful dachshund Boswell are to be guests of honour at the big event. A splendid time will be had by all, as long as they can ignore the sinister statue that keeps moving around the town, the Shadows that are slowly blocking out the stars, the murderous Christmas elves, and the fact that somewhere in Biddlecombe a rotten black heart is beating a rhythm of revenge. A trap has been set. The Earth is doomed. The last hope for humanity lies with one young boy and the girl who's secretly in love with him. Oh, and a dog, two demons, four dwarfs and a very polite monster.

Three hundred years ago, the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed by one of their own, and slaughtered. Now a band of killers has returned to Sanctuary to seek revenge on a young woman and her son, and the only people who stand in their way are a young rookie officer and the island's resident policeman, the troubled giant known as Melancholy Joe Dupree. But Joe Dupree is no ordinary policeman. He is the guardian of the island's secrets, the repository of its memories. He knows that Sanctuary has been steeped in violence, and that its ghosts will tolerate the shedding of innocent blood no longer. On Sanctuary, the hunters are about to become the hunted.

High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother. He is angry and alone, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness, and as he takes refuge in his imagination, he finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a land that is a strange reflection of his own world, populated by heroes and monsters, and ruled over by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a mysterious book... The Book of Lost Things. An imaginative tale about navigating the journey into adulthood, while doing your best to hang on to your childhood.

Layer Cake, a metaphor for the many murky layers of the criminal world, is set in modern day London and features smooth-talking and sophisticated drug dealer aXA whose plan is to quietly bank-roll enough cash to retire young (early).

Darkly comic, fast-paced and full of twists Viva la Madness is packed with sex, scams, drugs and enough dirty money to fill a few offshore bank accounts.

Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accident. She is a body without a spirit, a stolen child. Ceres, her mother, can only sit by her bedside and read aloud to Phoebe the fairy stories she loves in the hope they might summon her back to this world. But it is hard to keep faith, so very hard. Now an old house on the hospital grounds, a property connected to a book written by a vanished author, is calling to Ceres. Something wants her to enter, and to journey - to a land coloured by the memories of Ceres's childhood, and the folklore beloved of her father, to a land of witches and dryads, giants and mandrakes; to a land where old enemies are watching, and waiting. To the Land of Lost Things.

CRIME & MYSTERY. A decade after NOCTURNES first terrified and delighted readers, John Connolly, bestselling author of the acclaimed Charlie Parker thrillers, gives us a second volume of tales of the supernatural. From stories of the monstrous for dark winter nights to fables of fantastic libraries and haunted books, from a tender narrative of love after death to a frank, personal and revealing account of the author's affection for myths of ghosts and demons, this is a collection that will surprise, delight - and terrify. NIGHT MUSIC: NOCTURNES 2 is a masterly collection to be read with the lights on - menace has never been so seductive.

Funny, scary adventure with a dachshund, demons, science - and footnotes.

One of Amazon's Top 10 YA novels for 2013. An epic tale set on an Earth ruled by an elite alien race. For fans of Rick Yancey and Pittacus Lore.

An all-original anthology of stories from some of today's hottest supernatural and fantasy writers, 'Zombie' provides a new take on death and resurrection.

Exploring the profound impact of relationships, this collection of short stories delves into the highs of newfound love and the depths of loss. It captures the emotional spectrum of human connections, revealing how they can lead to unexpected experiences and, at times, darker impulses when individuals are tested. Each narrative offers a unique perspective on the complexities of love and the human condition.

Filled with eerie surprises and dark delights, this collection continues the themes established in its predecessors, Nocturnes and Night Music. The stories explore the interplay between light and darkness, revealing unsettling truths and haunting narratives that captivate the reader's imagination. Each tale invites a deeper reflection on the complexities of human experience, making it a compelling read for those drawn to the mysterious and the macabre.

Proofreading is a fundamental skill for any student. This book helps students master the nuts & bolts of grammar, spelling and punctuation, as well as consider word choices and clarity.

'John Connolly is the creator of a unique blend of thriller and horror who receives rave reviews every time' Sunday TelegraphA Child Missing. A Mother Accused. Charlie Parker Is Their Only Hope.In Maine, Colleen Clark stands accused of the worst crime a mother can commit: the abduction and possible murder of her child. Everyone - ambitious politicians in an election season, hardened police, ordinary folk - has an opinion on the case, and most believe she is guilty.But most is not all. Defending Colleen is the lawyer Moxie Castin, and working alongside him is the private investigator Charlie Parker, who senses the tale has another twist, one involving a husband too eager to accept his wife's guilt, a disgraced psychic seeking redemption, and an old crooked house deep in the Maine woods, a house that should never have been built.A house, and what dwells beneath.'Dark and dangerous ... but where there is also kindness, loyalty, love. Ultimately, it's a story of hope' IRISH EXAMINER

De moord op een hoertje leidt tot een bovennatuurlijke speurtocht.

A dieci anni Thomas Bishop viene internato in una clinica psichiatrica dopo aver ucciso la madre che lo seviziava da sempre. Quindici anni dopo, evade dall'istituto e dà inizio a una fuga sanguinaria sul cui cammino sono ancora le donne a cadere. Un omicidio, due, poi saranno decine; Bishop tortura e uccide spostandosi da Las Vegas a Chicago, a New York. Un personaggio infero ma straordinariamente umano, del quale Shane Stevens è cronista implacabile raccontandone nel dettaglio l'infanzia e gli anni di reclusione, le quotidiane strategie di sopravvivenza e la ferocia omicida. Ne emerge un indimenticabile ritratto della follia, di quel concatenarsi di storie, incontri o mancati incontri che conducono un uomo a cedere alla violenza, all'orrore, alla distruzione dell'altro e di sé. E accanto a questa ombra che ferisce a morte le grandi metropoli del continente, emerge il volto oscuro dell'America degli anni Settanta, restituito attraverso il racconto di una caccia all'uomo che coinvolgerà tutti, poliziotti e giudici, politici e giornalisti, beffati dall'astuzia dell'assassino e incatenati, loro malgrado, alla sua testarda, deviata umanità.

Quelques meubles minables. Une odeur infecte. Aux murs, des miroirs, et encore des miroirs. Ici, il y a vingt ans, John Grady a tué quatre enfants. Ce n'est plus une maison, c'est un tombeau. Et quelque chose y demeure, qui ne demande qu'à ressurgir. Chargé de surveiller cet endroit sinistre, Charlie Parker scrute les ombres... Il n'est pas seul : dehors, un homme étrange attend de recouvrir une dette. Le "Collectionneur". Et si le pire était à chercher de l'autre côté des miroirs ?

Maine, Etats-Unis. Une petite station balnéaire, hors saison. Un détective balafré, bancal comme un solo de saxophone. Un cadavre sur le sable, chasseur sachant chasser, devenu proie des ombres. Soixante-dix ans après la guerre, les fantômes de l'holocauste viennent hanter ce coin venteux. Le passé brûle encore et ne veut pas s'éteindre. Est-ce Charlie Parker qui vient au Mal ? Ou bien le Mal qui, toujours, vient à Charlie Parker ? " Excellent ! " Rolling Stone " Une fois de plus, Connolly nous entraîne dans un thriller à l'intrigue addictive et dans un univers particulier très noir où le suspense côtoie le fantastique. " Paris Normandie

Love and Crime Frauen sind gefährlich, besonders wenn sie auf Männer treffen, die verliebt und damit beinahe wehrlos sind. Doch welche Waffe einer Frau ist bedrohlicher - die Magnum in der Hand oder ein verführerisches Lächeln im Gesicht? Die größten Autoren des Genres erzählen, warum eine Affäre einen Mann den Kopf kosten kann. Mit brandneuen Geschichten von Jeffery Deaver, John Connolly, Anne Perry, Elmore Leonard, Ian Rankin und anderen.

Wanneer een detective wordt ingehuurd door een vrouw die zich bedreigd voelt, ontdekt hij meer dan hem lief is.