Two intertwined disappearances leave a rural community in shock in the latest gripping Charlie Parker novel from New York Times bestselling author John Connolly.
In a darkly brilliant thriller set in Maine's rural Kennebec River Valley, the body of a young runaway from a "troubled teens" school has been found in the water, seemingly drowned, while a teenage girl has gone missing, believed dead. Now it is up to one man, private investigator Charlie Parker, to find the connection, and bring two evils-one new and one ancient-to an end… John Connolly is the author of the #1 internationally bestselling Charlie Parker thrillers series, The Book of Lost Things and its sequel The Land of Lost Things, the Samuel Johnson Trilogy for younger readers, and (with Jennifer Ridyard) the Chronicles of the Invaders series. He lives in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, see his website at JohnConnollyBooks.com, or follow him on X and BlueSky @JConnollyBooks.
"In this 12th novel about private detective Charlie Parker, narrator Jeff Harding successfully juggles more than a dozen characters involved in investigating-or committing-multiple murders and kidnappings of children, while spirits from the afterlife make occasional appearances. With so many characters, it might be easy to get lost, but Harding differentiates each one enough that the novel is easy to follow. The villains are truly terrible people who commit horrific crimes for pure evil enjoyment. The setting is a school for troubled youth in the wilds of the Kennebec Valley in Maine, where no one can be trusted and nothing is what it seems.
An exciting murder mystery tinged with the supernatural."
