num_pages: 516
description: Tormented and racked with guilt over the brutal slaying of his wife and daughter, Charlie 'Bird' 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.
language: English
title: Every Dead Thing
titlecomplete: Every Dead Thing (Charlie Parker, #1)
characters: Charlie Parker
genres: Crime, Suspense, Thriller, Supernatural, Mystery Thriller, Horror, Fiction, Detective, Paranormal, Mystery
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: Hodder & Stoughton