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The Woman in the Woods Volume 17

A Charlie Parker Thriller

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The Woman in the Woods Volume 17

By: John Connolly
Narrated by: Jeff Harding
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“With its singular characters, eerie subject matter, and socko style” (The New York Times), this gripping thriller from the internationally bestselling author John Connolly follows Private Investigator Charlie Parker as he is hired to track down the identity of a dead woman—who apparently died in childbirth—and her missing child.

In the beautiful Maine woods, a partly preserved body is discovered. Investigators realize that the young woman gave birth shortly before her death. But there is no sign of a baby.

Private detective Charlie Parker is hired by a lawyer to shadow the police investigation and find the infant but Parker is not the only one searching. Someone else is following the trail left by the woman, someone with an interest in much more than a missing child…someone prepared to leave bodies in his wake.

And in a house by the woods, a toy telephone begins to ring and a young boy is about to receive a call from a dead woman.

With breathless pacing and shivery twists and turns, “this is Connolly’s masterpiece” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery Supernatural Suspense Thriller & Suspense

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I thought this entry into the Charlie Parker series was one of the better Parker stories. The pacing and the more direct clash with the occult made it an edge of your seat kind of read.

Loved the new Charlie Parker Novel

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story was sometimes hard to follow, especially at the beginning. Too much jumping around to keep plot and characters straight.

confusing

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This is the first book i have read/listened to by this author.i intend to rectify that situation immediately.

wonderful!

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After having read every book in this series, it annoys me to listen to narrator, Jeff Harding, get the name of a major character wrong. The name is Louis, not Louie! Harding's entire portrayal of Louis is as off as the way he pronounces locations in Maine. Not that he's not good at narration, but more attention to the characters and locations is needed. This is not his first Parker Series narration, so he should have done his homework by now.

As for the content, I love reading everything John Connolly writes. I am growing weary of all the ghosts that crop up in his stories, but I feel they are an important thread connecting the underlying supernatural theme in the individual novels. This one ended with to be continued stamped all over it. Anyone else getting the slight Lovecraftian vibe? Must be patient and keep reading. John Connolly will not disappoint.

Not crazy about the narration.

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Story plot was interesting: murder, mystery, a little sci-fi mixed in. The narrator took some getting used to. He generally did a good job of switching voices for the characters, which isn’t always easy for a man doing women’s voices. His take on a characters voice from Indiana though, was almost insulting. If a man owns and runs a successful diner, helps abused women, is a rare book collector and reader, it doesn’t follow he should be given a dumb- hick kind of voice just because he’s in rural Indiana. It often felt like he was reading a to-do list or instruction manual.

Decent story, odd narration.

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