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Author
Series
Detective Charlie Parker volume 1
Language
English
Description
Haunted by the murders of his wife and daughter, NYPD detective Charlie Parker sets himself up as bait in a trap, when the search for a missing woman leads him to the man who had devastated his family, a vicious serial killer known as the Traveling Man
Author
Series
Parker volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Description
Grieving over the murder of his family, private detective Charlie "Bird" Parker returns to Maine in search of refuge, and becomes caught up in the murders of a young mother and her child, a crime that could be linked to the troubled history of Parker's own grandfather.
Author
Series
Parker volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
When the discovery of a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the truth about the disappearance of a religious community, private detective Charlie Parker becomes embroiled in a deadly conflict with a group of religious fanatics. .
Author
Series
Detective Charlie Parker volume 4
Language
English
Description
Investigating the rape and murder of a wealthy Southern woman, for which a young African American faces the death penalty, private investigator Charlie Parker finds his efforts complicated by the machinations of an old adversary.
Author
Series
Charlie Parker volume 5
Language
English
Description
Assisting a friend in a search for a kidnapped woman, detective Charlie Parker links the abduction to a church of bones in Eastern Europe, a 1944 slaughter at a French monastery, and the myth of an object known as the Black Angel.
6) The unquiet
Author
Series
Detective Charlie Parker volume 6
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a once-respected psychiatrist's disappearance and the discovery of harm he had inflicted on his child patients, private detective Charlie Parker finds himself torn between those who would reveal and protect the doctor's secrets.
7) The Reapers
Author
Series
Detective Charlie Parker volume 7
Language
English
Description
When his friend, a former member of an elite assassin organization, is abducted by a vengeful adversary, Charlie Parker and his associates set out to find him, in a case that forces Charlie to test the boundaries of his ethics.
8) The lovers
Author
Series
Detective Charlie Parker volume 8
Language
English
Description
Stripped of his license in the wake of a police investigation into his own past, private investigator Charlie Parker unofficially looks into the suspicious death of his father, who reportedly committed suicide after shooting two teens.
Author
Series
Detective Charlie Parker volume 9
Language
English
Description
Traveling to the Canadian border where disenchanted former soldiers have built a smuggling operation, Charlie Parker forges an uneasy alliance with a killer known as The Collector when the smugglers capture the attention of two formidable adversaries.
Author
Series
Charlie Parker volume 10
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Investigating sinister threats against a man hiding a criminal past, detective Charlie Parker stumbles into a web of corruption and deceit involving the FBI, a doomed mobster, and a missing teenage girl.
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Language
English
Description
"The woman on the bed was barely out of her teens. She wasn't exactly beautiful, but she'd tried to make the most of her looks. And now, alone in a seedy beachfront motel, she was dead. Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone doesn't know her name. Whoever she is, she didn't deserve to die. Jesse starts digging, only to find himself caught in the crosshairs of a bitter turf war between two ruthless pimps. And more blood will spill before it's over"--
Author
Series
Charlie Parker volume 11
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st Emily Bestler Books/Atria books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
474 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A latest entry in the popular series finds the intrepid detective racing against time to acquire a list of strategically important names from the site of a mysterious plane crash in the Maine woods, an effort that lures both good and evil individuals including a brutal serial killer.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The next pulse-pounding thriller in John Connolly's internationally bestselling Charlie Parker series. The community of Prosperous, Maine has always thrived when others have suffered. Its inhabitants are wealthy, its children's future secure. It shuns outsiders. It guards its own. And at the heart of Prosperous lie the ruins of an ancient church, transported stone by stone from England centuries earlier by the founders of the town... But the death...
Author
Series
Charlie Parker volume 13
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Still recovering from his life-threatening wounds, private detective Charlie Parker investigates a case that has its origins in a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War. Parker has retreated to the small Maine town of Boreas to regain his strength. There he befriends a widow named Ruth Winter and her young daughter, Amanda. But Ruth has her secrets. Old atrocities are about to be unearthed, and old sinners will kill to hide their sins....
Author
Series
A Charlie Parker thriller volume 14
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
465 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Dangerous and driven private investigator Charlie Parker returns in the latest gripping thriller of internationally bestselling author John Connolly's series, in which ungodly fears haunt a strange and isolated community. 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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Internationally bestselling author John Connolly returns with another "superb fusion of noir and the supernatural" (My Bookish Ways) in this latest thriller in his gripping Charlie Parker series. It is deep winter and the darkness is unending. A private detective named Jaycob Eklund has vanished and Charlie Parker is assigned to track him down. Parker's employer, Edgar Ross, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has his own reasons for...
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From internationally bestselling 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...
18) A book of bones
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Series
Language
English
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Description
He is our best hope. He is our last hope. On a lonely moor in northern England, the body of a young woman is discovered. 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. Charlie Parker has also heard it and from the forests of Maine to the deserts of the Mexican border, from the canals of Amsterdam to...
19) The dirty South
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It is 1999, and someone is slaughtering young black women in Burdon County, Arkansas. But no one wants to admit it, not in the Dirty South. In an Arkansas jail cell sits a former NYPD detective, stricken by grief. He is mourning the death of his wife and child, and searching in vain for their killer. He cares only for his own lost family. But that is about to change. Witness the becoming of Charlie Parker."--
Author
Series
A Pentecost and Parker mystery volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"READERS OF ANTHONY HOROWITZ AND JACQUELINE WINSPEAR, WITH A DASH OF AGATHA CHRISTIE, step right up! Murder Under Her Skin is a delightfully hardboiled high-wire act starring two daring heroines dead set on justice. Someone's put a blade in the back of the Amazing Tattooed Woman, and Willowjean "Will" Parker's former knife-throwing mentor has been stitched up for the crime. To uncover the truth, Will and her boss, world-famous detective Lillian Pentecost...