The Killing Kind: A Charlie Parker Thriller: 3 - Softcover

Connolly, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501122649 ISBN 13: 9781501122644

Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books, 2015

Synopsis

Troubled ex-cop turned private investigator Charlie Parker returns in the latest "compulsively readable" (Publishers Weekly) thriller from #1 internationally bestselling author John Connolly.

John Connolly takes battered ex-cop Charlie Parker on his third outing after Every Dead Thing and Dark Hollow. Still struggling with the horrific ghosts of his past, Parker is now a disillusioned private eye hired to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of Grace Peltier--which neither her father nor a former US Senator believe was suicide. The trail leads to a mass grave in northern Maine where a Baptist community disappeared forty years earlier. The deaths of the Baptists and Grace are connected and point in the direction of a shadowy organization known as the Fellowship. With the assistance of some idiosyncratic and murderous acolytes, Parker soon confronts the Fellowship's demonic leader and finds himself caught in a situation more gruesome than even he could ever have imagined.

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Review:

Spider-bites are a nasty way to die, and there is a man out there with an unusual taste for insect venom of all kinds and for the deaths of those who disagree with or affront him. John Connolly's sleuth Charlie Parker is free of the ghosts of his slaughtered wife and child, but sooner or later new ghosts come to him demanding silently that he avenge them. In The Killing Kind, it is not Grace, the ex-girlfriend whose faked suicide he is hired to investigate, so much as the dead fanatics she was killed for writing a thesis on. The Aroostook Baptists disappeared into the gloomy woods of North Maine in the sixties and nothing more is known until road workers find a mass burial. Connolly provides his usual excellent combination of snappy one-liners (many of them from Parker's gay assassin sidekicks Angel and Louis) together with scenes of the utmost terror. Parker soon realises that the spider killer, Elmer Pudd, is only the tool of someone far worse, a sanctimonious artist in intolerance and mayhem--and it is only by carefully measured doses that we come to realise just how bad that is going to be. --Roz Kaveney

Review:

"The Killing Kind unfolds with the force and logic of a nightmare." -- Washington Post

The Express (London) A master storyteller.

Kirkus Reviews Connolly's honest but brutal characterizations leave the reader with wounds that need stitching.

"One of the best thriller writers we have." -- Harlan Coben

Toronto Sun [Connolly is] one of the best in the genre.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1501122649
• ISBN 13: 9781501122644
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400