The Unquiet: A Charlie Parker Thriller: 6 - Softcover

Connolly, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340920491 ISBN 13: 9780340920497

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

The sixth haunting Charlie Parker thriller not to be missed by fans of Stephen King and Michael Connelly.

'This man's so good, it's terrifying.' - The Times

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 . . .

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Review:

There is an element of the supernatural, taking the reader into a place where the real, contemporary world is touched by something from our worst nightmares, and he does it in lyrical, almost poetic language which grips and chills. (Sunday Telegraph)

Parker is a classic character who walks straight and tall like someone from the old west, and the reader knows all will be well once he arrives in town. THE UNQUIET just won't let you put it down as the plot careers across the pages like a runaway train. Excellent! (Independent on Sunday)

This man's so good, it's terrifying ... a quieter, subtler, more reflective way of scaring us into shivering wrecks ... His gift for instilling terror is undimmed ... Connolly operates in the terrain between unease and horror and does so without resorting to hysteria. (The Times)

Book Description:

The brand new thriller, featuring private detective Charlie Parker, from Sunday Times bestselling author of THE BLACK ANGEL

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0340920491
• ISBN 13: 9780340920497
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480