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Author
Series
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Charlie Parker is asked to look into a controversial series of miscarriages in a small town in New Mexico that's heavily populated by Mexicans. The town has one medical clinic. Her first assumption is to look for some type of environmental problem such as pesticides but that draws a blank. Then she shifts her suspicions onto the medical industry and finds herself embroiled in politics regarding health care among minorities. It's when the dead bodies...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Octogenarian Willie McBride has gone missing and now his obnoxious daughter is pestering Albuquerque CPA Charlie Parker to find him in time for the big family reunion. Apparently, the eccentric old man had one driving obsession: finding gold.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
231 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Tenth book in the Charlie Parker Mystery Series. Charlie digs into the cold case of an exploding house in Watson's Lake, New Mexico and tries to work out the complicated life of a man who turns out to have several false identities and an obsession with money. Big money.
6) The Reapers
Author
Series
Charlie Parker volume 7
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Stripped of his private investigator's license, Charlie Parker takes a job tending bar in Portland, Maine. Alone and directionless, he faces at last a shadow he has lived with since his childhood: what made his father, a respected police officer, apparently shoot dead two unarmed teens and then commit suicide. His quest leads him back to the little New York town where he grew up, to the secret history of the NYPD, and to the existence of mysterious...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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 of a homeless man and the disappearance of his daughter draw the haunted, lethal private investigator...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
438 pages ; 24 cm.
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
Charlie Parker thriller volume 14
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books
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
Charlie Parker thriller volume 15
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Emily Bestler books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
452 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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 wanting Eklund found. Eklund is no ordinary investigator--he is obsessively tracking a series of homicides and disappearances, each linked to reports of hauntings. Now Parker is drawn into Eklund's...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In the beautiful Maine woods, a partly preserved body is discovered. Investigators realize that the dead young woman gave birth shortly before her death. But there is no sign of a baby. Private detective Charlie Parker is hired by a lawyer to shadow the police investigation and find the infant, but Parker is not the only searcher. Someone else is following the trail left by the woman, someone with an interest in much more than a missing child.
14) A book of bones
Author
Series
Charlie Parker thriller volume 17
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
674 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
He is our best hope. He is our last hope. On lonely moor in the northeast of England, the body of a young woman is discovered near the site of a vanished church. 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. But another is coming: Parker the hunter, the avenger. From the forests of Maine to the deserts...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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
Charlie Parker thriller volume 19
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Amsterdam, four bodies, violently butchered, are discovered in a canal house, the remains of friends and confidantes of the assassin known only as Louis. The men responsible for the murders are Serbian war criminals. They believe they can escape retribution by retreating to their homeland. They are wrong. For Louis has come to Europe to hunt them down: five killers to be found and punished before they can vanish into thin air. There is just one...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chaos and murder arrive in Charlie Parker's hometown of Portland, Maine, with two connected crimes in the latest novel in #1 nationally bestselling author John Connolly's "flawless and highly suspenseful" (PopSugar) series.
New York Times bestselling author John Connolly pits Parker against two separate—but vitally connected—investigations, which prove to be among the most complicated of his entire career in this...
New York Times bestselling author John Connolly pits Parker against two separate—but vitally connected—investigations, which prove to be among the most complicated of his entire career in this...
Author
Series
Charlie Parker thriller volume 20
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
504 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Chaos and murder arrive in Charlie Parker's hometown of Portland, Maine, with two connected crimes which prove to be among the most complicated of Parker's entire career." -- Provided by publisher.