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Le corps d'une femme est retrouvé enterré dans les bois du Maine ; l'autopsie révèle qu'elle est morte en mettant un enfant au monde. A-t-il survécu et, dans ce cas, où se trouve-t-il ? Charlier Parker est chargé par l'avocat Moxie Castin d'élucider ce mystère. Mais il n'est pas le seul à s'intéresser à l'affaire. Deux sinistres Anglais, aussi cruels qu'impitoyables, s'efforcent eux aussi de remonter la piste de la défunte, laissant dans leur sillage quantité de cadavres.

Plus jamais vous ne douterez que les fantômes existent. Charlie Parker, le détective privé tourmenté revenu d'entre les morts, est chargé par Edgar Ross, un agent du FBI, de retrouver Jaycob Eklund, un autre détective manquant à l'appel. L'homme enquêtait discrètement sur une série de meurtres sauvages et de disparitions s'étalant sur plus d'un siècle, tous associés à des événements surnaturels.

In Maine, Colleen Clark stands accused of the worst crime a mother can commit: the abduction and possible murder of her child. Everyone - ambitious politicians in an election season, hardened police, ordinary folk - has an opinion on the case, and most believe she is guilty. But most is not all. Defending Colleen is the lawyer Moxie Castin, and working alongside him is the private investigator Charlie Parker, who senses the tale has another twist.

After years of suffering unfathomable pain and guilt over the murders of his wife and daughter, private detective Charlie Parker has finally found some measure of peace. As he and his lover, Rachel, are awaiting the birth of their first child and settling into an old farmhouse in rural Maine, Parker has found the kind of solace often lost to those who have been touched by true evil. But darkness soon descends when Parker gets a call from Elliot Norton, an old friend from his days as a detective with the NYPD.

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.

New York Times bestselling author and “one of the best thriller writers we have” (Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author) John Connolly returns with a shivery short story collection of supernatural tales.

Former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker is on the verge of madness. Tortured by the unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter, he is a man consumed by guilt, regret, and the desire for revenge. When his former partner asks him to track down a missing girl, Parker finds himself drawn into a world beyond his imagining - one where 30 year old killings remain shrouded in fear and lies, a world where the ghosts of the dead torment the living....

Syl Hellais and Paul Kerr have traveled through Derith, the mysterious wormhole from which no traveler has ever returned. Yet Derith's secrets are darker than they imagined, and, trapped in a dimension beyond their own, they finally emerge to discover a universe that has moved on without them.

The Earth has been invaded by the Illyri, a beautiful, civilized, yet ruthless alien race. Humanity has been conquered, but still it fights the invaders. The Resistance grows stronger, for it is the young people of Earth who battle the Illyri.

Once upon a time, there was a boy who lost his mother.... As twelve-year-old David takes refuge from his grief in the myths and fairytales so beloved of his dead mother, he finds the real world and the fantasy world begin to blend. That is when bad things start to happen. That is when the Crooked Man comes. And David is violently propelled into a land populated by heroes, wolves, and monsters, and begins his quest to find the legendary Book of Lost Things.

The Resistance still fights the invaders, but they are nothing more than an annoyance to the Illyri, an alien race of superior technology and military strength. When caught, the young rebels are conscripted. Part soldiers, part hostages, they join the Brigades, sent to fight at the edges of the growing Illyri Empire.

On a lonely moor in the northeast of England, the body of a young woman is discovered near the site of a vanished church. In the south, a girl lies buried beneath a Saxon mound. To the southeast, the ruins of a priory hide a human skull. Each is a sacrifice, a summons. And something in the darkness has heard the call. But another is coming: Parker the hunter, the avenger.

Audible exclusive. 'For me writing was a way of making sense of the world.' John Connolly joins us in the studios to discuss books, authors and the lure of writing. John Connolly is an Irish writer who is best known for his series of novels starring private detective Charlie Parker.

In The Sisters Strange, the return of the criminal Raum Buker to Portland, Maine brings with it chaos and murder, as an act of theft threatens not only to tear apart his own existence but also that of Raum’s former lovers, the enigmatic sisters Dolors and Ambar Strange. And in The Furies, Parker finds himself fighting to protect two more women as the city of Portland shuts down in the face of a global pandemic, but it may be that his clients are more capable of taking care of themselves than anyone could have imagined.

Una giovane donna scompare per le strade di New York. Chi l’ha rapita crede che a nessuno importi di lei, che nessuno la cercherà. Si sbaglia. È la cugina di Louis l’assassino, braccio destro del detective privato Charlie Parker, che ridurrà in brandelli chiunque intralci i suoi sforzi per ritrovarla. Mentre la violenta ricerca di Louis procede, Parker si rende conto che questa sparizione fa parte di un mistero più antico, legato a una chiesa ornata di ossa situata nell’Europa orientale.

Stripped of his license, Charlie Parker takes a job in a Portland bar. Alone and directionless, he faces at last a shadow he has lived with since his childhood: what made his father, a respected police officer, apparently shoot dead two unarmed teens and then commit suicide. His quest leads him back to the little New York town where he grew up, to the mysterious history of the NYPD, and to the existence of secret friends and hidden enemies.

In his first collection of short fiction, New York Times best-selling author John Connolly offers a selection of dark, daring, and utterly haunting tales. Here are lost lovers and missing children, predatory demons, and vengeful ghosts.

La prima raccolta degli audiolibri di Raymond Connolly con protagonista Charlie Parker riunisce i seguenti titoli: "La rabbia degli angeli", "Gente che uccide" e "Il lupo in inverno".

In Amsterdam, three people are butchered in a canal house, their remains arranged around the crucified form of their patriarch, De Jaager: fixer, go-between and confidante of the assassin named Louis. The men responsible for the murders are Serbian war criminals. They believe they can escape retribution by retreating to their homeland.

Jerome Burnel was once a hero. He intervened to prevent multiple killings and in doing so destroyed himself. His life was torn apart. He was imprisoned, brutalized. But in his final days, with the hunters circling, he tells his story to private detective Charlie Parker. He speaks of the girl who was marked for death but was saved, of the ones who tormented him and of an entity that hides in a ruined stockade. Parker is not like other men. He died and was reborn. He is ready to wage war.