The Woman in the Woods

By: John Connolly

Narrated by: Jeff Harding

From internationally best-selling author and “creative genius who has few equals in either horror fiction or the mystery genre” (New York Journal of Books) comes a gripping thriller starring private investigator Charlie Parker. When the body of a woman - who apparently died in childbirth - is discovered, Parker is hired to track down both her identity and her missing child.

In the beautiful Maine woods, a partly preserved body is discovered. Investigators realize that the dead 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 searcher. 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.

©2018 John Connolly (P)2018 Simon & Schuster

Loved the new Charlie Parker Novel

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.

confusing

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

wonderful!

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

Not crazy about the narration.

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.

Decent story, odd narration.

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.

Wasn't expecting a supernatural theme...

thought it was a straight up murder mystery, but it was good and pretty well written. Kept my interest.

great book

the series continues to develop cant wait to see where it goes next. would love to read more

still great after multiple listens

I have every book in the series up until this point. And I have actually listened to the whole series book 1 to the recent book at least three times. I've listened to this book alone four times. I love the Charlie Parker series. And although this book I feel is preparing us for the inevitable loss of Charlie Parker I still am looking forward to the next book!

This series is excellent!

Love the story, have become used to the narrator. John Connolly's Charlie Parker can't miss.

wonderful

I miss Charlie Parker already. This book reminded me how much I love this series.