Language: English
Charlie "Bird" (Fictitious character) Crime Ex-police officers Fiction General Hard-Boiled Missing Persons Mystery Mystery & Detective New York (N.Y.) Parker Police Procedural Private Investigators Serial Murders Suspense Thrillers Virginia
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: Feb 15, 2005
Description:
SUMMARY: 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.EVERY DEAD THINGJohn 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....