My first mistake was thinking this was a Michael Connelly (sp?) book. It is a story about Iraq war vets in the northeast who are committing suicide at a high rate. They are all involved in a smuggling operation transporting stolen relics from a looted Iraqi museum. In the process of that lootin...
John Connolly remains a master. I don't know how many times I can write how genius I think he is before it gets redundant; hopefully never. Every Charlie Parker novel remains unique, and they don't get stale.I thought I had a handle on how this book was going to play out, and was slightly disappo...
It's been a whole since I had read a book in this series had it on my kindle for a while. But wanting to do something other than fantasy it was a nice change. Not the favorite in this series I love the exchange between Charlie Louis and Angel with this book lacked. It was a decent who done it typ...
I read other readers's opinion about that book in Goodreads after reading a few pages which were, to my taste, to much filled with descriptions about the weather, the landscape and with too much writing about crows - and when you know my love for description, you understand my hesitations. People...
I love this series. It is violent, twisted, scary and dark but for some reason it has sucked me in. This book really delves into the supernatural aspects of this series. The struggle between light and dark, the fight with fallen angels who are not friends of humans. You also learn the origins ...
I should have enjoyed this more than I did, but I had just come off a double dose of Gabaldon. I read Outlander for the third time and Dragonfly in Amber for the second. She is such a great author, she keeps popping up in other author's book reviews! I am anxious to get back to her, but i am g...
Aw! I loved the ending! I actually really enjoy this trilogy of Samuel Johnson and his friends. Intrigue and horror but hilarious and light, Connolly definitely hit every mark and then some with these. The end of this one though truly had me grinning with joy. *SPOILERS HERE* To know that Samuel ...
Free via Kindle Owners' Lending Library. A short fantasy story for bibliophiles, it's tender and touching and worth the read. However, if you have any intention of reading Anna Karenina in the future and have so far managed to avoid knowledge of the ending of the story or of what happens for An...
In March of 2009, I started reading Charlie’s journey through the criminal underworld with “Every Dead Thing”. While having a little supernatural stuff thrown in there, his character reminded me of a “Batman-ish” vigilante. You had the classic story line of a traumatic event happening to an undes...
"O Viajante Assassino" é o primeiro livro da série de Charlie Parker. Podia também ser o último, mas infelizmente há mais.Tudo do que existe de pior e de mais horrível no mundo em que vivemos, com o seu lado mais obscuro, frio e desprezível, envolve o protagonista Charlie Parker, também conhecido...
Dutch Island, also called Sanctuary Island, off the coast of Maine is a small tight-knit community. Police Officer Joe Dupree is the law enforcement on the island. The worst violations he ever sees are teenagers breaking curfew and the harmless antics of the town drunk. He likes the relative peac...
Once upon a time....in the Northern woods of Maine USA..."In April, 1963, a group of four families left their homes on the eastern seaboard and journeyed north...for two hundred miles... to an area of land close by the town of Eagle Lake, twenty miles south of the border between New Brunswick and...
Bestselling author John Connolly's first collection of short fiction, Nocturnes, now features five additional stories -- never-before published for an American audience -- in a dark, daring, utterly haunting anthology of lost lovers and missing children, predatory demons, and vengeful ghosts. In ...
Michael heard him breathe in deeply, calming himself. “You couldn’t have known. You may have to prepare for reprisals if the attack is connected to you. Some people won’t like it.” Michael had no idea what Bliss was talking about. His father wanted everyone involved in Jonny Lee’s death wiped fro...
For example, the death of Charles Dickens in June 1870 precipitated the single greatest mass arrival of characters in the Caxton’s history. Mr. Torrans, the librarian at the time, at least had a little warning of the impending influx, for he had received a large quantity of pristine Dickens first...
North, to the last places. They were lost. Andrea Foster knew it even if her husband wouldn’t admit it: he never admitted his failings if he could avoid it, but she could tell that he wasn’t sure of where they were. He kept looking at his map as if its neat details of hills and trails bore any re...
He passed Steven and Rizzo, and then Peris and Thula, all fast asleep. Only Alis was still awake, seated silently in the copilot’s chair as they headed for Archaeon, her face lit by the readings on the cockpit glass before her. Paul became part of them as he approached her from behind, reflected ...
They were nineteen in all, including Ani, Syl, and Gradus, who walked along much like a zombie, his eyes unseeing, his footfalls automatic. Syl had now learned all the humans’ names. There was Heather, of course, and young Alice, who spent much of her time walking with Syl and Ani while her mothe...
It is an unusual piece, although its subject matter may be said to be typical of our time: the opening up of a body by what is, one initially assumes, a surgeon or anatomist, the light from a suspended lamp falling over the naked body of the anonymous man, his scalp peeled back to reveal his skul...
She didn’t particularly mind. While she enjoyed being with him, theirs was no great love affair, and she was certain that he felt the same way. It was a relationship of convenience between two Illyri, based on many things—ambition, shared enemies, common goals, occasional physical needs—but not o...
She was good-looking without being attractive, her features lacking the animation and character required to earn more than a passing glance. Only her eyes had any real life to them, but it was the gleam of avarice. She looked like a hungry doll. ‘Has your husband been in c...
Once her body was released, the corpse was purified and dressed in shrouds, and placed in a simple wooden casket for the funeral service at the Sinai Memorial Chapel in Bangor. Amanda Winter was present, a black ribbon attached to the left lapel of her new overcoat, bought for her by her grandmot...
He felt himself drawing closer to him, and as he did so his fears increased. Herod was an unusual case. The Collector might even have viewed him simply as an interesting challenge, like a hunter who finds that the animal he is pursuing has displayed unexpected depths of cunning, had he not become...
Eliza Dunwidge was woken by a noise from the rooms below, the rooms that housed those wonderful books. Many of the most valuable were now packed in boxes, safely stored for transportation, and she and her father would have the rest ready to be moved within the next twenty-four hours. Well, they w...
The sun was shining, the pies were good, and all was well with the world. “Hello, Sergeant,” said a passerby, walking his dog. “Criminals taking a day off today, are they?” Sergeant Rowan smiled. When he chose to use it, he had a smile like a fatal gunshot. “Do you have a license for that dog?” h...