Every Dead Thing (Charlie Parker Series #1) »

Fans of John Connolly's unique, atmospheric novels have come to know that the cases former NYPD detective Charlie Parker sets out to solve are haunting -- literally haunting.

John Connolly's "darkly ingenious debut novel" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) has been hailed internationally as a page-turner in a league with the fiction of Thomas Harris.

John Connolly superbly taps into the tortured mind and gritty world of former NYPD detective Charlie Parker, tormented by the brutal, unsolved murders of his wife and young daughter. Driven by visions of the dead, Parker tracks a serial killer from New York City to the Deep South and finds his buried instincts — for love, survival, and, ultimately, for killing — awakening as he confronts a monster beyond imagining....

Philip Oakes

...only layer upon layer of tosh. -- Literary Review