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Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
As a small boy, Louis witnesses an unspeakable crime that takes the life of a member of his small, southern community. He grows up and moves on, but he is forever changed by the cruel and brutal nature of the act. It lights a fire deep within him that burns white and cold, a quiet flame just waiting to ignite. Now, years later, the sins of his life are reaching into his present, bringing with them the buried secrets and half-forgotten acts of his...
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Series
Publisher
Pocket Star
Pub. Date
2003, c2001
Physical Desc
436 p. : map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Did Grace Peltier commit suicide? When a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the final resting place of a religious community that disappeared almost forty years earlier, private detective Charlie Parker, hired to investigate the circumstances of her death, realizes that their deaths and the violent passing of Grace Peltier are part of the same mystery, one that has its roots in her family history and in the origins of the shadowy organization known...
Author
Series
Charlie Parker volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
467 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Former NYPD detective Charlie Parker, teetering on the verge of madness after the unsolved slayings of his wife and daughter, finds his old instincts for survival, compassion, love, and killing reawakening when he agrees to help his old partner track down a missing girl.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
438 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
465 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jerome Burnel was once a hero. He intervened to prevent multiple killings, and in doing so destroyed himself. His life was torn apart. He was imprisoned, brutalized. But in his final days, with the hunters circling, he tells his story to private detective Charlie Parker. He speaks of the girl who was marked for death, but was saved; of the ones who tormented him, and an entity that hides in a ruined stockade. Parker is not like other men. He died,...
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Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
418 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Daniel Clay, a once-respected psychiatrist, has gone missing. His daughter insists that he killed himself after allegations surfaced that he had betrayed his patients to foul and evil men -- but when a killer obsessed with uncovering the truth behind his own daughter's disappearance comes seeking revenge, long-forgotten secrets begin to emerge. Hired by Dr. Clay's daughter to protect her from the predator on the loose, tortured and ingenious private...
Author
Series
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
452 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Charlie Parker is a lost soul. Deprived of his private investigator's license and under scrutiny by the police, Parker takes a job in a Portland bar. But he uses his enforced retirement to begin a different kind of investigation: an examination of his own past and an inquiry into the death of his father, who took his own life after apparently shooting dead two unarmed teenagers. It's a search that will eventually lead Parker to question all that he...
Author
Series
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
481 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the beautiful Maine woods, a partly preserved body is discovered. Investigators realize that the dead young woman gave birth shortly before her death, but there is no sign of a baby. Private detective Charlie Parker is hired by a lawyer 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 much more than a missing child......
Author
Series
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
474 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the depths of the Maine woods, the wreckage of an aeroplane is discovered. There are no bodies, and no such plane has ever been reported missing, but men both good and evil have been seeking it for a long, long time. What the wreckage conceals is more important than money: it is power. Hidden in the plane is a list of names, a record of those who have struck a deal with the Devil. Now a battle is about to commence between those who want the list...
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Series
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Physical Desc
503 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
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, deeply rooted in old evil -- and old evil is Charlie Parker's specialty. He's about to enter a living nightmare, a dreamscape of sorrow haunted by the murderous specter of a hooded woman, by a black car waiting for a passenger that never comes, and by...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
409 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
“‘Oh, little one,’ he whispered, as he gently stroked her cheek, the first time he had touched her in fifteen years. ‘What have they done to you? What have they done to us all?’ ”In his latest dark and chilling Charlie Parker thriller, New York Times bestselling author John Connolly takes us to the border between Maine and Canada. It is there, in the vast and porous Great North Woods, that a dangerous smuggling operation is taking place,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
674 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Charlie Parker returns in this ... thriller as he seeks revenge against the darkest forces in the world. Three bodies are found. Each is a sacrifice, a summons. And something in the darkness has heard the call"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Physical Desc
579 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Charlie Parker discovers that the disappearance of a young New York City prostitute is linked to a church in Eastern Europe, a massacre at a French monastery in 1944 and a mythical object called the Black Angel.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
504 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Haunted by the murder of his wife and daughter, former New York police detective Charlie Parker retreats home to Scarborough, Maine, to rebuild his shattered life. But his return reawakens old ghosts, drawing him into the manhunt for the killer of yet another mother and child. The obvious suspect is the young woman's violent ex-husband. But there is another possibility -- a mythical killer who lurks deep in the dark hollow of Parker's own past, a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
x, 421 pages ; 24 cm.
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...
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