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  • The Killing Kind

  • A Charlie Parker Thriller, Book 3
  • By: John Connolly
  • Narrated by: Jeff Harding
  • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (509 ratings)

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Summary

Did Grace Peltier commit suicide?

When a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the final resting place of a religious community that disappeared almost 40 years earlier, private detective Charlie Parker, hired to investigate the circumstances of her death, realises that their deaths and the violent passing of Grace Peltier are part of the same mystery, one that has its roots in her family history and in the origins of the shadowy organisation known as the Fellowship.

Aided by the genial killers Angel and Louis, Parker must descend into the depths of a honeycomb world populated by dark angels and lost souls, a world where the ghosts of the dead wait for justice and the unwary are prey for the worst kind of creatures: the killing kind.

©2001 John Connolly (P)2004 ISIS Publishing Ltd

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Excellent

An absolute excellent listen... As usual the narrator does a brilliant job. Can't wait to continue with the series.

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Fantastic Poetry in Prose

… on an incredibly intricate and twisted ocult plot… better than Stephen King in my opinion. Loved it

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Jeff Harding

Wow, the way Jeff Harding bring these books alive.
Cannot stop listening, must pay attention to the road!

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The Killing Kind

Another great yarn with just about every genre covered and a superb narration for me it was hours of great entertainment.

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incredible!!

I read this several years ago and got hooked on John Connelly and the Charlie Parker series. this stands up there as one of the best crime, action, thrillers out there!

the narrator however turns this from an excellent book into an incredible experience. his portrayal of Charlie Parker is exactly how I pictured it and his characters and inflection bring life to the bit parts, the side kicks and the sinister evil villains

If you come across this book and your tempted to try something new you cannot go wrong!!

unless your afraid of spiders that is!

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Read by Jeff Harding so very high quality.

Read Jeff Harding, so you know the quality of reading is off the scale....

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Charlie Parker story continues with intensity

Love the way stories intertwine and this guy is a perfect narrator for the Charlie Parker series. Don't miss them!

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The best narrator on Audible.

Another great story in the Charlie Parker series enhanced enormously by the excellent narration of Jeff Harding. A narrator can make or break an audiobook and Mr Harding brings every character to life with believable individual voices. I hope he gets as much pleasure in his narration as I do listening to him bring John Connelly's books to life.

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Great story

The characters are of the old era the dialog it reminds me of the 1950's detective with the smart answers and Jeff Harding tells it wonderfully

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Charlie descends into a web of crime and horror.

It strikes me that Charlie Parker novels by John Connolly have a steady consistency in style and content. This is to suggest, that if you loved book one, then two, three and four will satisfy the reader/listener equally. This is my experience so far. Connolly’s novels tend to make me hungry for the next one, upon the conclusion of Charlie’s gruesome and gripping cases. Jeff Harding provides an equally robust ad consistent narration to the stories. I loved The Killing Kind, it was an immersive, gritty, crime thriller. Arachnophobes beware!

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