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The Instruments of Darkness
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In this 21st book in the 'Charlie Parker' series, the sleuth investigates the disappearance of a child. This supernatural mystery thriller works fine as a standalone.
When two-year-old Henry Clark disappears from his toddler bed in Portland, Maine.....
.......suspicion quickly falls on Henry's mother Colleen.
Colleen's husband Stephen - who was on a business trip when Henry vanished - tells the police that Colleen had post-partum depression and anger issues. When Stephen finds a blood-stained blanket in the trunk of Colleen's car, that clinches it.
For her part, Colleen says she had a glass of wine, fell asleep, and woke up to find Henry gone. Colleen further claims to know nothing about the blood-stained blanket in her car, but the authorities don't believe her, and prepare to make an arrest.
Colleen is represented by attorney Moxie Castin......
......who works with private detective Charlie Parker. Colleen, who's distraught about her missing child, believes
Charlie Parker Book 23
John Connolly’s writing explores the dark corridors where crime, horror, and the supernatural collide. Born in Dublin in 1968, Connolly’s journey into storytelling was anything but predictable. After earning degrees in English and journalism, he started his career as a freelance journalist, contributing to The Irish Times. But it wasn’t long before the allure of fiction pulled him away from articles and into the world of novels.
Connolly’s first novel, Every Dead Thing, marked the beginning of the now-iconic Charlie Parker series, a gripping collection of crime thrillers laced with elements of the supernatural. The novel, praised for its atmospheric tension and deeply flawed characters, earned Connolly the Shamus Award for Best First Secret Eye Novel in 2000, making him the first non-American creator to receive this honor. This achievement set the stage for a career built on blending crime fiction with darker, almost mythic elements that resonate with fans of both mystery and horror.
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What sets Connolly apart in his genre is his ability to create complex, layered narratives that intertwine personal trauma, moral ambiguity, and the s
John Connolly is a very busy man. He unfailingly publishes a new book every year, alternating between his long-running Charlie Parker PI series as well as novels that can only be described as departures, or other creative endeavors such as “He” which he published in 2017, or his collections of short fiction, his collaborations and occasional pieces of journalism.
John has recently completed his Master’s Degree from University College Cork, Ireland. He hosts his own Radio show ABC to XTC with John ConnollySaturdays on RTE at 17:00 - 18:00 and he happily travels the world to promote his books and entertaining his readers and fans.
He has just completed a tour to promote THE CHILDREN OF EVE in the UK and Ireland [read the Shots review HERE]. In fact, you can follow John on Instagram HERE where he reviews all the hotel rooms he stays in while on tour. You are always guaranteed a chuckle.
So just before taking a well-earned break from the UK and Ireland leg of his promotional tour, John found time to answer a few questions about his latest work, including links to his previous work such as The Black Angel which predates The Children of Eve by a
The Children of Eve: Gripping, terrifying and utterly absorbing, the new Sunday Times bestselling Charlie Parker thriller (May 2025)
The ghosts of Charlie Parker's past watch over him as danger moves ever closer, in this spellbinding new novel in the number one bestselling series.
'Connolly grips like a vice and he's an extraordinary storyteller' Crime Time
'One of the best thriller writers we have' Harlan CobenWyatt Riggins, the boyfriend of rising Maine artist Zetta Nadeau, has gone missing, leaving behind a cell phone containing a single-word message: RUN.
Private investigator Charlie Parker is hired to find out why Riggins has fled, and from whom.
Parker discovers that Riggins, an ex-soldier, has been involved in the abduction of four children from Mexico: three girls and a boy, all belonging to the cartel boss Blas Urrea - except Urrea's family is safe and well in Mexico, which means the abductees cannot be his children. Yet whoever they are, Urrea wants them back, and has dispatched his agents to secure them, even if it means butchering everyone who stands in their way.
One of those agents is Eugene Seeley, a clever, ruthless solver of othe
RECENT READING MAY 2025: NEW BOOKS BY JOHN CONNOLLY, ALEX NORTH, JOHN McMAHON AND PRESTON & CHILD
My early May 2025 reading has been dominated by four very different books, three of which have a touch of otherness about them.
John McMahon’s Head Cases (Harper Collins) came out earlier in the year, but I only just got to it.
I heard John speak at Bouchercon in Nashville last year, where he said that early reviewers were comparing Head Cases to Mick Herron’s Slow Horses books. It is not a comparison that I can see, apart from some tenuous links around the use of a small group of misfits to solve a crime, but regardless, Head Cases is an enjoyable and entertaining read that certainly kept me happily engaged.
The story revolves around Gardner Camden, an analytical FBI agent with an affinity for riddles, puzzles, and codes. It makes him the perfect fit for the Patterns and Recognition (PAR) unit of the FBI, a team of five brilliant, but misfit, agents who are usually confined to the office. Gardner is fanatical about his work and justice, with his only outside interests being his seven-year-old daughter and the occasional visits to his elderly moth