Edited by Jonathan Santlofer. Touchstone, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4516-8475-9
Despite the usual serial-novel pitfalls, C.J. Box, Lawrence Block, Mary Higgins Clark, Charlaine Harris, Val McDermid, and the 15 other distinguished crime authors who each contribute a chapter to this team project succeed in fashioning an engaging...
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John Connolly, Author . S&S/Atria $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7434-5334-9
Move over, Spider-Man. Arachnophobes, proceed at your own peril. Elias Pudd, the archfiend in Connolly's masterful third suspense novel (following Every Dead Thing
and Dark Hollow) finds such grizzly uses for spiders of all, er, stripes that he
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John Connolly. Atria/Bestler, $26.99 (480p) ISBN 978-1-5011-1832-6
As in the best noir, the violent events that propel the plot of Connolly’s grim but compelling 14th novel featuring PI Charlie Parker (after 2015’s A Song of Shadows) are triggered by a seemingly innocuous choice. Jerome Burnel, a jewelry store...
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John Connolly. Atria/Bestler, $16 trade paper (464p) ISBN 978-1-5011-1836-4
Fans of bestseller Connolly’s Charlie Parker mysteries (A Song of Shadows, etc.) will welcome his second story collection, which showcases his talent for crafting paranormal tales with healthy injections of humor. The standout is “The Caxton Private
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John Connolly. Atria/Bestler, $26 (448p) ISBN 978-1-5011-1828-9
In Connolly’s gripping 13th Charlie Parker thriller (after 2014’s The Wolf in Winter), the normally peaceful town of Boreas, Maine, where the PI has retreated, is suddenly hit with several murders in rapid succession. First, four members of a family—
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John Connolly. Emily Bestler/Atria, $26 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4767-0318-3
Connolly’s absorbing 12th Charlie Parker novel (after 2013’s The Wrath of Angels) finds the PI, based in Portland, Maine, still on the hunt for the serial killer known as the Collector, with his sidekicks—and comic relief—Angel and Louis in tow....
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John Connolly. Atria, $22 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4767-5709-4
The modest English town of Biddlecombe has largely recovered from the events of The Infernals and hesitantly welcomed a few friendly demons. The demon Mrs. Abernathy is being recovered—one molecule at a time—by a servant of the Great Malevolence,...
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John Connolly. Atria/Emily Bestler, $26 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4767-0302-2
From its ominous first pages, Connolly’s 11th Charlie Parker thriller (after 2011’s Every Dead Thing) takes readers on a gruesomely entertaining ride. Marielle Vetters, to honor her late father Harlan’s wishes, meets PI Charlie in Portland, Maine,...
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John Connolly. Atria, $22 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4516-4308-4
A few years after the events of 2009’s The Gates, the demon Mrs. Abernathy (formerly Ba’al) wants revenge on young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund, Boswell, who stopped the forces of Hell from invading Earth. The reactivation of the Large Hadron...
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John Connolly. Atria, $26 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4391-6527-0
In Connolly's solid 10th thriller featuring private detective Charlie Parker (after The Whisperers), Randall Haight approaches attorney Aimee Price in the tiny Maine town of Pastor's Bay to ask for help regarding anonymous notes he's been receiving...
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John Connolly, Author Simon & Schuster $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-684-85714-5
One serial killer who tortures children and another who steals victims' faces after mutilating their bodies give readers two grisly plots in one darkly ingenious debut novel. New York Homicide cop Charlie ""Bird"" Parker left the force when his wife
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John Connolly, Atria, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-14391-6519-5
Ancient artifacts and the second Iraqi War provide the backdrop for Connolly's outstanding ninth novel featuring PI Charlie Parker (after The Lovers). When the former NYPD homicide detective looks into the suicide of an Iraq war veteran, he...
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John Connolly, Author . Atria $25.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9893-3
In this scary, cerebral thriller from bestseller Connolly, his fifth to feature world-weary Maine PI Charlie Parker (after 2005's The Black Angel
), Parker is haunted by the ghosts of his wife and daughter, who died under mysterious...
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John Connolly, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (448p) ISBN 978-0-7432-0332-6
Irish writer Connolly's follow-up to Every Dead Thing, which won the 2000 Shamus Award for Best PI First Novel, is just as grim, hard-edged and compulsively readable as his debut. Recently relocated to his home town of Scarborough, Maine, newly...
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John Connolly, Author . Atria $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7434-5638-8
"I have learned to embrace the dead and they, in their turn, have found a way to reach out to me." It's becoming increasingly clear from pronouncements such as this that PI Charlie Parker is hardly your garden-variety mystery protagonist.
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John Connolly, Author . Atria $25 (392p) ISBN 978-0-7434-8784-9
The long-dead, gray-skinned wraiths Connolly conjures up in this thriller with a supernatural twist are lighthearted sprites compared to the grotesque humans who maim, rape and kill their way through the gore-clotted story of horror and revenge....
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John Connolly, Author . Atria $25 (496p) ISBN 978-0-7434-8786-3
The first 60,000 copies of Irish thriller master Connolly's fifth Charlie Parker novel arrive signed, and with a CD. (The latter features tracks that either play a role in his darkly atmospheric novels, or are favored by their characters:...
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John Connolly, Author . Atria $22 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9885-8
Thriller writer Connolly (Every Dead Thing
) turns from criminal fears to primal fears in this enchanting novel about a 12-year-old English boy, David, who is thrust into a realm where eternal stories and fairy tales assume an often gruesome reality.
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John Connolly, Author . Atria $26 (351p) ISBN 978-1-4165-6952-7
The past comes back with a vengeance in bestseller Connolly's unsettling eighth novel to feature ex-NYPD detective turned disgraced PI Charlie “Bird” Parker (after The Unquiet
). Parker's confidantes Louis and Angel—an ex&
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John Connolly, Author . Atria $26 (344p) ISBN 978-1-4165-6954-1
Bestseller Connolly once again expertly melds a hard-boiled plot with the supernatural in his eighth Charlie Parker crime novel (after The Reapers
). While previous books in the series explored the trauma at the heart of Parker's backstory, the
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John Connolly, Author . Atria $24 (296p) ISBN 978-1-4391-7263-6
In this frothy fantasy thriller from bestseller Connolly (The Book of Lost Things
), 11-year-old Samuel Johnson witnesses an inadvertent intersection of science and the supernatural while trick-or-treating at the Abernathy household in Biddlecombe,...
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John Connolly, Author, Jonathan Cake, Read by , read by Jonathan Cake. Audioworks $29.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4423-0060-6
With nothing on the package cover to indicate otherwise, Connolly fans might expect a gritty horror thriller; what they'll find instead is a comic yarn about a British boy, Samuel Johnson, and his dog, Boswell, who are attempting to stop the...
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John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard. Atria/Emily Bestler, $24 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4767-5712-4
Connolly (The Creeps) teams up with newcomer Ridyard to deliver a fast-paced, intricately-woven tale of continuing human resistance to an alien occupying force, first in a series. Sixteen-year-old Syl Hellais is the daughter of the Illyri governor...
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John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard. Atria/Emily Bestler, $26 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4767-5715-5
Connolly and Ridyard provide a strong but somewhat disjointed second volume for the Chronicles of the Invaders epic SF trilogy, picking up where Conquest left off. Human Paul Kerr and Illyri Syl Hellais are separated after their illicit cross-species
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John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard. Atria/Bestler, $26 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4767-5718-6
In this ambitious conclusion to the Chronicles of the Invaders space opera trilogy (after Empire), Connolly and Ridyard pick up the myriad dangling plot threads and push forward with an epic, if somewhat rushed, story that sees star-crossed lovers...
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Gregg Hurwitz, read by Scott Brick, Brilliance Audio, unabridged, 12 CDs, 14 hrs., $32.99 ISBN 978-1-4233-8091-7
Scott Brick has a subject worthy of his considerable talents in Hurwitz's hapless protagonist, Patrick Davis. The down-on-his-luck ex-screenwriter who's being sued by a film company, and whose wife is talking divorce, is notified one morning by an...
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John Connolly, read by Holter Graham, Recorded Books, 11 CDs, 12.75 hrs., unabridged, $23.75 ISBN 978-1-4498-1834-0
Holter Graham's breathless, bordering on melodramatic delivery is an appropriate fit for private detective Charlie Parker's latest battle with otherworldly evil. The labyrinthine plot has the sleuth confronting his old foe, the Collector, while...
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John Connolly, Author, Steven Crossley, Narrated by , read by Steven Crossley. Recorded Books $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4281-2040-2
Crossley provides a smooth, professional reading of this heartfelt story of loss and discovery. Connolly's fairy tale for adults chronicles the adventures of David, a 12-year-old boy growing up in WWII England. Still mourning the loss of his...
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John Connolly, Author, Jay O. Sanders, Read by , read by Jay O. Sanders. Simon & Schuster Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-6157-0
Of the few novelists who manage to combine the private eye and horror genres successfully, none does it better than Connolly. Here he gives his hapless hero, Charlie Parker, a man obsessed with the memory of the gruesome murders of his wife and...
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John Connolly, Author, Jay O. Sanders, Read by , read by Jay O. Sanders. Audioworks $29.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-8210-0
Connolly's latest thriller sees a depressed, soul-searching Charlie Parker stripped of his private investigator's license, tending bar in Maine and still tormented by the dark secrets in his past: the murder of his wife and daughter and...
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John Connolly, Author, Jay O. Sanders, Read by Simon & Schuster Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-7181-4
Connolly's latest commercial thriller is a taut and mysterious nail-biter that offers plenty of corruption and murder with just a twist of the otherworldly. Jay O. Sanders reads with a stern and clear voice, but never really captures listeners'...
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James Patterson and John Connolly, with Tim Malloy, read by Jason Culp. Hachette Audio, unabridged, 6 CDs, 7 hrs., $35 ISBN 978-1-4789-4168-2
The picture painted of Jeffrey Epstein—and the abuse and miscarriages of justice—in this white-collar crime account will haunt listeners. The authors stick with evidence they uncovered rather than delving too deep into whys and wherefores. The story
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John Connolly. Atria/Bestler, $26.99 (464p) ISBN 978-1-5011-7189-5
Connolly smoothly integrates moments of humor into the terrifying plot of his fine 15th supernatural thriller featuring Maine PI Charlie Parker (after 2016’s A Time of Torment). Parker partners with a shadowy FBI agent, Edgar Ross, to locate “individ
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John Connolly. Atria/Bestler, $26.99 (496p) ISBN 978-1-5011-7192-5
Connolly’s 16th thriller featuring PI Charlie Parker (after 2017’s A Game of Ghosts) perfectly blends the natural and the supernatural. After a woman’s corpse is found in the woods near Parker’s Maine home, attorney Moxie Castin asks him to trace...
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John Connolly. Atria/Bestler, $28.99 (688p) ISBN 978-1-9821-2751-0
Connolly’s complex, pulse-pounding 17th supernatural thriller featuring Maine-based investigator Charlie Parker (after 2018’s The Woman in the Woods) finds Parker still on the trail of Quayle, a possibly immortal English lawyer, and Pallida Mors,...
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John Connolly. Atria/Bestler, $28 (448p) ISBN 978-1-9821-2754-1
Supernatural noir fans will relish Connolly’s excellent 18th thriller featuring PI Charlie Parker (after 2019’s A Book of Bones), an origin story set in 1999. The murder of Parker’s wife and daughter ended his career as an NYPD detective, but the...
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John Connolly. Atria/Bestler, $28 (432p) ISBN 978-1-9821-7697-6
Early in bestseller Connolly’s outstanding 19th paranormal thriller featuring Maine PI Charlie Parker (after 2020’s The Dirty South), two Serbian war criminals, brothers Spiridon and Radovan Vuksan, torture and murder De Jaager, a Dutch fixer, and...
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John Connolly. Atria, $28 (512p) ISBN 978-1-9821-7700-3
In The Sisters Strange, the first of two novels in Connolly’s exceptional 20th book featuring Portland, Maine, PI Charlie Parker (after 2021’s The Nameless Ones), a lumber company owner fears that his girlfriend is at risk from her ex-lover, ex-con...
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John Connolly. Atria, $29.99 (512p) ISBN 978-1-6680-2231-3
In bestseller Connolly’s rattling latest case for Charlie Parker (after The Furies), the Maine PI wrestles with potentially paranormal forces as he tries to determine if a young mother killed her own child. Charlie’s friend, attorney Moxie Castin,...
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