Tortured and brilliant private detective Charlie Parker stars in this Thriller by New York Times bestselling author John Connolly.
Lyrical and terrifying, it is an ambitious debut, triumphantly realized..
It is also a profoundly moving novel, concerned with the nature of loyalty, love, and forgiveness.
In the tradition of classic American detective fiction, Every Dead Thing is a tense, richly plotted thriller, filled with memorable characters and gripping action.
Driven by visions of the Dead and the voice of an old black psychic who met a terrible end, Parker must seek a final, brutal confrontation with a murderer who has moved beyond all notions of humanity, who has set out to create a hell on earth: the serial killer known only as the Traveling Man.
Aided by a beautiful young psychologist and a pair of bickering career criminals, Parker becomes the bait in a trap set in the humid bayous of Louisiana, a trap that threatens the lives of everyone in its reach.
But the search awakens buried instincts in Parker: instincts for survival, for compassion, for love, and, ultimately, for killing.
When his former partner asks him to track down a missing girl, Parker finds himself drawn into a world beyond his imagining: a world where thirty-year-old killings remain shrouded in fear and lies, a world where the ghosts of the Dead torment the living, a world haunted by the murderer responsible for the deaths in his family--a serial killer who uses the human body to create works of art and takes faces as his prize.
Tortured by the unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter, he is a man consumed by guilt, regret, and the desire for revenge.
Former NYPD detective Charlie Bird Parker is on the verge of madness.
Tortured and brilliant private detective Charlie Parker stars in this Thriller by New York Times bestselling author John Connolly
