Esta serie sigue a un exagente de policía convertido en detective privado, cuyas investigaciones se adentran cada vez más en lo sobrenatural. Los demonios personales y el oscuro pasado del protagonista se ven reflejados en las amenazas paranormales que encuentra. Los lectores pueden esperar narrativas de detectives apasionantes entrelazadas con elementos de horror y lo sobrenatural, explorando las difusas líneas entre la realidad y el más allá.
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
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.
When the discovery of a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the grim truth behind the disappearance of a religious community, private detective Charlie Parker is drawn into a violent conflict with a group of zealots intent on tracking down a relic that could link them to the slaughter. Haunted by the ghost of a small boy and tormented by the demonic killer known as Mr. Pudd, Parker is forced to fight for his lover, his friends...and his very soul.
John Connolly captivates readers with spellbinding suspense as Charlie Parker races to unravel a brutal crime in the Deep South. After enduring profound pain and guilt from the murders of his wife and daughter, private detective Charlie Parker has found some peace while awaiting the birth of his first child with his lover, Rachel, in a rural Maine farmhouse. However, tranquility shatters when he receives a call from Elliot Norton, an old friend from his NYPD days, now a lawyer in Charleston. Elliot is defending a young black man accused of raping and killing his white girlfriend, the daughter of a powerful Southern millionaire. Reluctantly, Parker agrees to help, plunging into a nightmare filled with the haunting presence of a hooded woman and a mysterious black car. What begins as an investigation into a young woman's death spirals into a harrowing abyss, where dark forces threaten everything Parker holds dear. Connolly, hailed as a "master storyteller," delivers a riveting tale that explores the chilling intersections of past and present, life and death. As he writes, "We are trapped not only by our own history but by the histories of all those with whom we choose to share our lives." This beautifully rendered narrative promises to challenge even the most seasoned crime fiction fans.
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 . . .
Daniel Clay, a once-respected psychiatrist, has been missing for years following revelations about harm done to the children in his care. Believing him dead, his daughter Rebecca has tried to come to terms with her father's legacy, but her fragile peace is about to be shattered. Someone is asking questions about Daniel Clay, someone who does not believe that he is dead: the revenger Merrick, a father and a killer obsessed with discovering the truth about his own daughter's disappearance. Private detective Charlie Parker is hired to make Merrick go away, but Merrick will not be stopped. Soon Parker finds himself trapped between those who want the truth about Daniel Clay to be revealed, and those who want it to remain hidden at all costs. But there are other forces at work here. Someone is funding Merrick's hunt, a ghost from Parker's past. And Merrick's actions have drawn others from the shadows, half-glimpsed figures intent upon their own form of revenge, pale wraiths drifting through the ranks of the unquiet dead. The Hollow Men have come . . .
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.
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 . . .
Hay verdades tan terribles que no deberían ser pronunciadas en voz alta. Una de esas verdades es que, tras tres horas, el secuestro de un niño se trata rutinariamente como un homicidio. Cuando una niña desaparece de un pequeño pueblo de Maine, su vecino, un recluso llamado Randall Haight, comienza a recibir cartas anónimas que contienen referencias atormentadoras a otra adolescente, asesinada hace mucho tiempo. Durante años, Randall ha guardado un secreto: cuando tenía catorce años, fue condenado por el asesinato de esa chica. Ahora, su vida anterior ha regresado para atormentarlo, y contrata al detective privado Charlie Parker para que lo ayude. Pero en un pueblo construido sobre sangre y ensombrecido por viejos fantasmas, donde demasiados vivos ocultan secretos, el pasado no puede ser desechado tan fácilmente. A medida que Parker desentraña una historia retorcida y violenta que involucra a un mafioso condenado y sus enemigos, la policía y el FBI, su búsqueda regresa una y otra vez a Randall Haight. Porque Randall sigue diciendo mentiras…
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.
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 . . .
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.
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 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 is 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..."
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.
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 ?
