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Wyatt Riggins, the boyfriend of rising Maine artist Zetta Nadeau, has gone missing, leaving behind a cell phone containing a single-word message: RUN. Private investigator Charlie Parker is hired to find out why Riggins has fled, and from whom. Parker discovers that Riggins, an ex-soldier, has been involved in the abduction of four children from Mexico: three girls and a boy, all belonging to the cartel boss Blas Urrea - except Urrea's family is safe and well in Mexico, which means the abductees cannot be his children.

Phoebe, 8 ans, est dans le coma. À son chevet, sa mère, Cérès, lui lit les contes qu'elle affectionne dans l'espoir qu'elle se réveille. Mais il est difficile de garder espoir, si difficile...Non loin de l'hôpital où Cérès passe ses soirées se dresse une vieille demeure. Poussée par une force étrange, la jeune femme pénètre dans la maison et se retrouve propulsée dans un monde fantastique.

The “consistently high-quality” (Booklist) Charlie Parker series continues with a white-knuckled new thriller from New York Times bestselling author John Connolly. Wyatt Riggins, the boyfriend of rising Maine artist Zetta Nadeau, has gone missing, leaving behind a cell phone containing a...

È il 1997 e qualcuno sta massacrando giovani donne nella contea di Burdon, in Arkansas. Ma nessuno nello Sporco Sud vuole ammetterlo. In una cella di prigione dell’Arkansas siede un ex detective della polizia di New York, affranto dal dolore. Sta piangendo la morte di sua moglie e sua figlia e cerca invano il loro assassino. Ossessionato dall’idea di vendicare la famiglia, la sua vita sta per prendere una piega sconvolgente. La nuova alba di una coscienza, la nascita di un cacciatore, la trasformazione di Charlie Parker.

Un ragazzino approda in un mondo di fiabe distorte e deve ritrovare la strada di casa. L’unica compagnia di David sono i libri sul suo scaffale. Ma da un po’ di tempo quei libri hanno iniziato a sussurrargli nell’oscurità. Arrabbiato e in un costante stato di solitudine, si rifugia nei miti e nelle fiabe tanto amati dalla madre defunta e scopre che il mondo reale e quello fantastico hanno iniziato a fondersi tra loro.

Night & Day takes us from the dusty shelves of an uncanny library filled with fictional characters to a bunker deep beneath the earth where scientists seek revenge on old Nazis, from an English marsh haunted by a mother and her son to a country house where a grieving widower finds comfort in a most unlikely source. Concluding with the author's account of how an obscure horror film brought him closer to his lost father, and how nostalgia can help through our hardest times, this is a collection that will move, entertain, and keep you listening late into the night.

Ad Amsterdam, quattro persone vengono massacrate, i resti di tre di loro sono disposti intorno alla forma crocifissa del loro leader, De Jaager, intermediario e vecchio alleato dell’assassino di nome Louis. I responsabili sono criminali di guerra serbi che credono di poter sfuggire alla giustizia ritirandosi in patria, ma si sbagliano. Perché Louis è arrivato in Europa per dare loro la caccia: cinque assassini da stanare e punire prima che si disperdano verso est. C’è solo un problema. Ne manca uno. Il sesto. Il più dannato.

New York Times bestselling author John Connolly, “one of the best thriller writers we have” (Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author), returns with a shivery collection of supernatural tales. Filled with eerie surprises and dark delights, Night and Day takes us from the dusty...

Una giovane donna scompare per le strade di New York. Chi l’ha rapita crede che a nessuno importi di lei, che nessuno la cercherà. Si sbaglia. È la cugina di Louis l’assassino, braccio destro del detective privato Charlie Parker, che ridurrà in brandelli chiunque intralci i suoi sforzi per ritrovarla. Mentre la violenta ricerca di Louis procede, Parker si rende conto che questa sparizione fa parte di un mistero più antico, legato a una chiesa ornata di ossa situata nell’Europa orientale.

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.

From the international and instant New York Times bestselling author John Connolly, this heart-wrenching installment of the beloved and brilliant Charlie Parker series “will leave readers breathless and shaken” (Booklist). In Maine, Colleen Clark stands accused of the worst crime a mother...

Le corps d'une femme est retrouvé enterré dans les bois du Maine ; l'autopsie révèle qu'elle est morte en mettant un enfant au monde. A-t-il survécu et, dans ce cas, où se trouve-t-il ? Charlier Parker est chargé par l'avocat Moxie Castin d'élucider ce mystère. Mais il n'est pas le seul à s'intéresser à l'affaire. Deux sinistres Anglais, aussi cruels qu'impitoyables, s'efforcent eux aussi de remonter la piste de la défunte, laissant dans leur sillage quantité de cadavres.

Private Investigator Charlie Parker returns in this heart-pounding thriller, with Angel and Louis taking centre stage, following from events in A BOOK OF BONES, from the internationally bestselling author of the acclaimed Charlie Parker novels. In Amsterdam, three people are butchered in a canal...

“One of the best thriller writers we have.” —Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author From the international and instant New York Times bestselling author of The Dirty South, the white-knuckled Charlie Parker series returns with this heart-pounding race to hunt down the deadliest...

Nella Carolina del Sud, un giovane uomo di colore rischia la pena di morte per lo stupro e l'omicidio di Marianne Larousse, figlia di uno degli uomini più ricchi dello Stato. È un caso che nessuno vuole toccare, un caso che ha le sue radici nella crudeltà umana, e la crudeltà umana è la materia privilegiata del detective privato Charlie Parker.

It is deep winter. The darkness is unending. The private detective named Jaycob Eklund has vanished, and Charlie Parker is dispatched to track him down. Parker's employer, Edgar Ross, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has his own reasons for wanting Eklund found. Eklund is no...

Jerome Burnel was once a hero. He intervened to prevent multiple killings and in doing so damned himself. His life was torn apart. He was imprisoned, brutalized. But in his final days, with the hunters circling, he tells his story to private detective Charlie Parker. He speaks of the girl who...

The new thrilling instalment of John Connolly's popular Charlie Parker series. It is spring, and the semi-preserved body of a young Jewish woman is discovered buried in the Maine woods. It is clear that she gave birth shortly before her death. But there is no sign of a baby. Private detective...

EMPIRE is the follow-up to CONQUEST in the epic Chronicles of the Invaders trilogy by John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard. As captivating as Pittacus Lore's I AM NUMBER FOUR; as vividly realised as Veronica Roth's DIVERGENT. She is the trophy of a civilization at war with itself. He is its rebel...

The start of an epic new series from bestselling author John Connolly, and Jennifer Ridyard. For fans of The 5th Wave and I Am Number Four. Earth is no longer ours. It is ruled by the Illyri, a beautiful, civilised yet ruthless alien species. But humankind has not given up the fight, and Paul Kerr is one of a new generation of young Resistance leaders waging war on the invaders. Syl Hellais is the first of the Illyri to be born on Earth.