John Connolly
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Book of Lost Things volume 1
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High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns.
and soon finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While.
bestselling author John Connolly tells a dark and compelling tale.
by heroes and monsters and ruled by a faded king who keeps his.
company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the.
darkness. Angry and alone, he takes refuge in his imagination.
his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled.
into...
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2018.
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"From internationally bestselling author and "creative genius who has few equals in either horror fiction or the mystery genre" (New York Journal of Books) comes a gripping thriller starring Private Investigator Charlie Parker. 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...
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It is 1997, and someone is slaughtering young women in Burdon County, Arkansas. But no one in the Dirty South wants to admit it.
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. Obsessed with avenging his lost family, his life is about to take a shocking turn. Witness the dawning of a conscience. Witness the birth of a hunter. Witness the...
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2021.
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"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...
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2024.
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"In Maine, Colleen Clark stands accused of the worst crime a mother can commit: the abduction and possible murder of her child. Everyone -- ambitious politicians in an election season, hardened police, ordinary folk -- has an opinion on the case, and most believe she is guilty. But most is not all. Defending Colleen is the lawyer Moxie Castin, and working alongside him is the private investigator Charlie Parker, who senses the tale has another twist,...
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"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"--
10) He: a novel
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2018.
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"John Connolly recreates the golden age of Hollywood for an intensely compassionate study of the tension among the commercial demands, artistic integrity, and the human frailties behind even the greatest of artists"--
Drawn from Stan Laurel's correspondence the author reimagines his life in the Golden Age of Hollywood.
11) The Creeps
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Samuel Johnson tales volume 3
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2013.
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Samuel Johnson and his faithful dachshund Boswell join with a ragtag band of dwarves, policemen, and polite monsters when the Multiverse is threatened with destruction, starting in the little English town of Biddlecombe.
"In this clever and quirky follow-up to The Gates and The Infernals, Samuel Johnson's life seems to have finally settled dow-n-after all, he's still got the company of his faithful dachshund Boswell and his bumbling demon friend...
12) Dominion
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Chronicles of the invaders trilogy volume 3
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2017.
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"The third thrilling Chronicles of the Invaders adventure from New York Times bestselling author John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard mixes classic sci-fi with rich, character-driven plot, as Paul and Syl fight to save Earth from an enemy who is closer than ever. Syl Hellais and Paul Kerr have traveled through Derith, the mysterious wormhole from which no traveler has ever returned. Yet Derith's secrets are darker than they imagined, and trapped in...
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[2010]
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In this latest Charlie Parker thriller, Connolly takes us to the border between Maine and Canada. It is there, in the vast and porous Great North Woods, that a dangerous smuggling operation is taking place, run by a group of disenchanted former soldiers, newly returned from Iraq. Illicit goods - drugs, cash, weapons, even people - are changing hands. And something else has changed hands. Something ancient and powerful and evil.
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2016.
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The influential financier and philanthropist Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City's and Palm Beach's elites. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers--and for people--Epstein amassed his wealth through a combination of access and skill. But even after he had it all, Epstein wanted more. That unceasing desire-- and especially a taste for underage girls--resulted in his stunning fall from grace in the...
16) The Killing Kind
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[2001]
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When the discovery of a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the truth about the disappearance of a religious community, private detective Charlie "Bird" Parker becomes embroiled in a deadly conflict with a group of religious fanatics.
17) The furies
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2022.
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"Private investigator Charlie Parker is unwittingly drawn into a world of vengeance ... two separate -- but vitally connected -- investigations, which prove to be among the most complicated of his entire career. In The Sisters Strange, criminal Raum Buker arrives in Portland, Maine, only for a shocking act of theft to threaten not only his own existence but those of his former lovers -- the enigmatic sisters Strange. And in the title novel, The Furies,...
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[2020]
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"The book is divided into two parts: New Monsters, which contains seven chilling stand-alone tales that traverse and blend the genres of crime fiction, horror, and speculative fiction; and Old Friends, which contains five short pieces that reveal the origins or hidden backstories of Neville fan-favorite characters like Albert Ryan, Roberta Garrick, and of course Gerry Fegan. It also contains the long-awaited novella The Traveller, the companion piece...
19) The new daughter
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2010
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Academy-Award®-winner Kevin Costner stars as John, a newly divorced father who moves into a rural South Carolina home with his adolescent daughter Louisa (Ivana Baquero of PAN'S LABYRINTH) and young son Sam (Gattlin Griffith of CHANGELING). But when Louisa begins to behave in a bizarre and increasingly violent matter, John must uncover the truth behind her transformation. Is the former owner's shocking secret to blame? And how far will a father...
20) Inherit the dead
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c2013
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Pericles "Perry" Christo is a PI with a past--a former cop, who lost his badge and his family when a corruption scandal left him broke and disgraced. When wealthy Upper East Side matron Julia Drusilla summons him one cold February night, he grabs what seems to be a straightforward (and lucrative) case. The socialite is looking for her beautiful, aimless daughter, Angelina, who is about to become a very wealthy young woman. But as Christo digs deeper,...