The Instruments of Darkness
A Charlie Parker Thriller
Published on 27. February 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-1-5293-9190-9 (ISBN)
Description
'One of the best thriller writers we have' HARLAN COBEN
'Dark and dangerous ... but where there is also kindness, loyalty, love' IRISH EXAMINER
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, one involving a husband too eager to accept his wife's guilt, a disgraced psychic seeking redemption, and an old crooked house deep in the Maine woods, a house that should never have been built. A house, and what dwells beneath.
'One of the greatest writers of our generation' NICHOLAS SPARKS
'Ireland's answer to Stephen King' EXPRESS
'Dark and dangerous ... but where there is also kindness, loyalty, love' IRISH EXAMINER
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, one involving a husband too eager to accept his wife's guilt, a disgraced psychic seeking redemption, and an old crooked house deep in the Maine woods, a house that should never have been built. A house, and what dwells beneath.
'One of the greatest writers of our generation' NICHOLAS SPARKS
'Ireland's answer to Stephen King' EXPRESS
Reviews / Votes
PRAISE FOR JOHN CONNOLLY Masterly genre-splicing thrillers . . . Connolly's grip is inexorable * Financial Times * Charlie Parker . . . is one of modern fiction's most popular creations, a unique combination of a man who has one foot in the temporal world and the other in the spirit world * Irish Independent * John Connolly is the creator of a unique blend of thriller and horror who receives rave reviews every time * Sunday Telegraph * One of the best thriller writers we have * Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author * There's no mistaking a John Connolly novel, with its singular characters, eerie subject matter and socko style * The New York Times *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hodder & Stoughton
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
320 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5293-9190-9 (9781529391909)
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05/2024
Hodder & Stoughton
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John Connolly is author of the Charlie Parker mysteries, The Book of Lost Things, the Samuel Johnson novels for young adults and, with his partner, Jennifer Ridyard, co-author of the Chronicles of the Invaders. His debut - EVERY DEAD THING - introduced the character of Private Investigator Charlie Parker, and swiftly launched him right into the front rank of thriller writers. All his subsequent novels have been Sunday Times bestsellers.