Every Dead Thing

A Charlie Parker Thriller, Book 1

By: John Connolly

Narrated by: Jeff Harding

Tormented and racked with guilt over the brutal slaying of his wife and daughter, Charlie Parker, ex-cop with the NYPD, agrees to track down a missing girl. It is a search that will lead him into an abyss of evil.

At the same time, he is warned by an old black woman in Louisiana that "The Travelling Man" is about to strike again. Multiple strands converge with a horrific confrontation in which hunter and hunted are intimately connected by guilt.

©1999 John Connolly (P)2003 ISIS Publishing Ltd

Nothing Like A Good Entrance

Getting off to a good start when writing a series, especially in today's crowded marketplace, requires an attention getter as well as solid word craft.

Every Dead Thing has both. The plot construction has some interesting quirks, funny moments and memorable characters. The writing skill doesn't drag. So, roll on book two.

An opera of the macabre.

Unsettling to say the least. This is the point of origin of what will follow and a compulsory passage if you wish to navigate across the following books.
That one is certainly not the best you may even find it flawed on its plot and protagonists .
Its undeniable virtue resides in all the writing efforts you can feel the writer went through trying to organize its plots and define its characters.
To conclude I would say it is like visiting a painting with enough contents to both hate and love at the same time.