num_pages: 467
description: Tortured and brilliant private detective Charlie Parker stars in this thriller by New York Times bestselling author John Connolly.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 a world where thirty-year-old killings remain shrouded in fear and lies, a world where the ghosts of the dead torment the living, a world haunted by the murderer responsible for the deaths in his family—a serial killer who uses the human body to create works of art and takes faces as his prize. But the search awakens buried instincts in instincts for survival, for compassion, for love, and, ultimately, for killing.Aided by a beautiful young psychologist and a pair of bickering career criminals, Parker becomes the bait in a trap set in the humid bayous of Louisiana, a trap that threatens the lives of everyone in its reach. Driven by visions of the dead and the voice of an old black psychic who met a terrible end, Parker must seek a final, brutal confrontation with a murderer who has moved beyond all notions of humanity, who has set out to create a hell on the serial killer known only as the Traveling Man.In the tradition of classic American detective fiction, Every Dead Thing is a tense, richly plotted thriller, filled with memorable characters and gripping action. It is also a profoundly moving novel, concerned with the nature of loyalty, love, and forgiveness. Lyrical and terrifying, it is an ambitious debut, triumphantly realized.
language: English
title: Every Dead Thing
titlecomplete: Every Dead Thing (Charlie Parker, #1)
characters: Charlie Parker
genres: Paranormal, Mystery, Fiction, Suspense, Detective, Thriller, Supernatural, Crime, Horror, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 29578
series: Charlie Parker
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Bram Stoker Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Barry Award
category: Best British Crime Novel, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Shamus Award
category: Best First PI Novel
publisher: Pocket Books