Hodder & Stoughton

John Connolly, bestselling author of the Charlie Parker mystery series - 'the finest crime series currently in existence' (Independent) - serves up a wicked brew of superbly crafted collection of short stories.

In this pulse-pounding thriller, Private Detective Charlie Parker risks his life as he takes on a case for his dead client.

The terrifying international bestseller from the ultimate chiller thriller writer.

It is 1997, 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

The Number One bestseller. Fifteenth in the 'series of superb novels built around the haunted private detective Charlie Parker' (Daily Mail)

The Number One bestseller.

Parker fears no evil. But evil fears him . . .

Parker fears no evil. But evil fears him . . .

Winner of the 2017 Ryan Tubridy Show Listener's Choice Award at the Irish Book Awards John Connolly recreates the golden age of Hollywood for an intensely compassionate study of the tension between commercial demands and artistic integrity and the human frailties behind even the greatest of artists.

SIGNED COPIES - We will email you after purchase to confirm any signing / dedication details. Illustrated edition, with two new short stories - Cinderella, A Version and The Rat King, the latter introducing the Crooked Man who is central to the world of The Book of Lost Things - and an afterword from the author.

For all fans of great thrillers, of authors such as James Swallow, Frank Gardner, Terry Hayes, John le Carre, The Stranger sweeps us onward at white-knuckle pace, riding alongside a killer from our deepest nightmares and in Jude Lyon, an MI6 agent who is both ruthless and vulnerable - a new hero for a new decade.

One Parisian summer A building of separate lives All that divides them will soon collapse... In a forgotten corner of Paris stands a building. Within its walls, people talk and kiss, laugh and cry; some are glad to sit alone, while others wish they did not. A woman with silver-blonde hair opens her bookshop downstairs, an old man feeds the sparrows on his windowsill, and a young mother wills the morning to hold itself at bay.