Still raw from the brutal slayings of his wife and daughter, and the events surrounding the capture of their killer, The Travelling Man, Charlie Parker retreats to the wintry Maine landscape of his childhood. By following in the steps of his beloved grandfather, Parker hopes to heal his spirit and get through the bitter anniversary of the murder.In a gruesome re-enactment of Parker's own nightmares, another young woman and child are killed, and his brief involvement in their lives impels Parker to hunt their vicious murderer. Rita Ferris's estranged husband, Billy Purdue, is the obvious suspect. But as the death toll mounts, Parker comes to realise that the true answer to the puzzle lies thirty years in the past, in a tree with strange fruit, in his own grandfather's history, and in the perverted desires of a monster incarnate - Caleb Kyle.
John Connolly was born in Dublin in 1968. His debut -EVERY DEAD THING - swiftly launched him right into the front rank of thriller writers, and all his subsequent novels have been Sunday Times bestsellers. He is the first non-American writer to win the US Shamus award.
Title: Dark Hollow: A Charlie Parker Thriller: 2
Author: Connolly, John
ISBN: 9780340728994
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Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Publication Date: 2000-01-06
Number of Pages: 352
Weight: 0.7623 kg
classic American detective fiction . . . and of a very high order - Bernard Cornwell, Mail on Sunday
DARK HOLLOW:
Ghostly legends and gruesome lynchings merge in another pageturner to send you off to bed with a shivery spine - Books
'This is an exciting thriller and Parker is an engaging hero. Connolly writes like an angel . . . the violence is unremitting and flesh-creepingly inventive and Connolly has a good line in monstrous villains' (Sunday Times 1.10.00)
Connolly has few equals and the chilling monster created here is another key factor in the compulsiveness of this tense novel - Crime Time
'. . . a compelling pace, a considerable sense of humour . . . and a nastiness of detail. . . It is a dark tale of imagination that provides a disturbing read.' Michael Yates, Telegraph & Argus - Bradford
'literate, stylish, well researched, and compelling' Guardian
Outstanding. Connolly writes superb menace, superb fear, superb horror and superb violence but tempers it with real compassion and an understanding of men and women who suffer for years in silence before exploding into action. This is a monster of a book that will dominate the bestseller lists this spring - Mark Timlin IOS
