The lovers
By: John Connolly
Series: Charlie Parker -- 8; Charlie Parker thrillers; Charlie Parker -- 8.
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780340936696; 9780340936702
Subjects: Private investigators; Fiction
Description: Charlie Parker is a lost soul. Deprived of his private investigator's license and under scrutiny by the police, Parker takes a job in a Portland bar. But he uses his enforced retirement to begin a different kind of investigation: an examination of his own past and an inquiry into the death of his father, who took his own life after apparently shooting dead two unarmed teenagers. It's a search that will eventually lead Parker to question all that he believed about his beloved parents, and about himself. But there are other forces at work: a troubled young woman who is running from an unseen threat, one that has already taken the life of her boyfriend; and a journalist-turned-writer named Mickey Wallace, who is conducting an investigation of his own. And haunting the shadows, as they have done throughout Parker's life, are two figures: a man and a woman who seem driven to bring an end to Charlie Parker's existence ...