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Le grand retour de John Connolly et la naissance de la légende Charlie Parker. Une plongée troublante dans le Sud profond américain. Arkansas, 1997. Charlie Parker, ancien policier new-yorkais brisé par le meurtre atroce de sa femme et de sa petite fille, traque leur assassin à travers tout...

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.

Phoebe, 8 ans, est dans le coma. À son chevet, sa mère, Cérès, lui lit les contes qu'elle affectionne dans l'espoir qu'elle se réveille. Mais il est difficile de garder espoir, si difficile... Non loin de l'hôpital où Cérès passe ses soirées se dresse une vieille demeure. Poussée par...

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".

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...

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....

Still raw from the brutal slayings of his wife and daughter, and the events surrounding the capture of their killer, Charlie Parker, retreats to the wintry Maine landscape of his childhood. By following in the steps of his beloved grandfather, Parker hopes to heal his spirit and get through the anniversary of Jennifer and Susan's murder. But the echoes of the past that await him are not all benign. In a gruesome re-enactment of Parker's own nightmares, another young woman is killed with her child and his brief involvement in their lives impels Parker to hunt their vicious murderer....

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.

Two intertwined disappearances leave a rural community in shock in the latest gripping Charlie Parker novel from New York Times bestselling author John Connolly. In a darkly brilliant thriller set in Maine’s rural Kennebec River Valley, the body of a young runaway from a “troubled teens”...

Si racconta che in un bosco del Maine vaghi il fantasma di una bambina; è vestita di nero e ha gli occhi incavati. Durante una battuta di caccia in quei luoghi, due uomini incappano nei rottami di un piccolo velivolo, e forse non si tratta di un semplice caso. Tra le lamiere non trovano cadaveri, solo un borsone pieno di denaro, dei fogli che recano una lunga lista di nomi e un paio di manette spezzate legate al bracciolo di un sedile.

“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...

The Black Angel is not an object. The Black Angel is not a myth. The Black Angel lives. A young woman goes missing from the streets of New York. Those who have taken her believe that nobody cares about her, and that no one will come looking for her. They are wrong. She is 'blood' to the killer Louis, the man who stands at the right hand of private detective Charlie Parker, and Louis will tear apart anyone who stands in the way of his attempts to find her.

Daniel Clay, a once-respected psychiatrist, has been missing for years following revelations about harm done to the children in his care. Believing him dead, his daughter Rebecca has tried to come to terms with her father's legacy, but her fragile peace is about to be shattered. Someone is...

The Black Angel begins with the disappearance of a young prostitute from one of New York City's seamiest neighborhoods. Like so many tormented souls before her, the girl's mother is inevitably drawn to Charlie Parker's doorstep desperate for redemption and revenge. Despite the danger that his chosen profession imposes on his wife and newborn daughter, Parker knows that the woman and her troubles cannot be ignored.

Jerome Burnel was once a hero. He intervened to prevent multiple killings and in doing so damned 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...

'Connolly grips like a vice and he's an extraordinary storyteller' Crime Time 'One of the best thriller writers we have' Harlan Coben Wyatt Riggins, the boyfriend of rising Maine artist Zetta Nadeau, has gone missing, leaving behind a cell phone containing a single-word message: RUN. Private...

A child missing. A mother accused. Charlie Parker is their only hope. 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...

When Charlie Parker was still a boy, his father, a NYPD cop, killed a young couple, a boy and a girl barely older than his son, then took his own life. There was no explanation for his actions. Now Parker is working on his most personal case yet: an investigation into his own origins and the...

Randall Haight has a secret: when he was a teenager, he and his friend killed a 14-year-old girl. Randall did his time and built a new life in the small Maine town of Pastor's Bay, but somebody has discovered the truth about Randall. He is being tormented by anonymous messages, haunting reminders of his past crime, and he wants private detective Charlie Parker to make it stop. But another 14-year-old girl has gone missing, this time from Pastor's Bay, and the missing girl's family has its own secrets to protect.

They are the Reapers, the elite among killers. Men so terrifying that their names are mentioned only in whispers. The assassin Louis is one of them. But now Louis, and his partner, Angel, are themselves targets. And there is no shortage of suspects. A wealthy recluse sends them north to a town...