- Private investigators, Serial murders, Ex-police officers, Revenge
John Connolly superbly taps into the tortured mind and gritty world of former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" 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 American South, and finds his buried instincts -- for love, survival, and, ultimately, for killing -- awakening as he confronts a monster beyond imagining...
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Grave, classical in form, contemporary and earnest.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
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- Author
- John Connolly
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 480
- Publisher
- Atria Books, Lian pu chu ban, fa xing Jia ting chuan mei gu fen you xian gong si Cheng bang fen gong si
- Editions
- 34
- Language
- Italian, English, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9782266151276
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“It is cold in the car, cold as the grave.”
<div lang="en"><strong>John Connolly</strong> (born 31 May 1968) is an Irish writer who is best known for his series of novels starring private detective Charlie Parker. <cite>— [John Connolly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Connolly_\(author\)) on Wikipedia.</cite></div>
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