Showing results by author "John Connolly" in Literature & Fiction

Thirteenth in the 'series of superb novels built around the haunted private detective Charlie Parker' ( Daily Mail), A Song of Shadows sees Parker revisit the crimes of a WWII concentration camp while he struggles to regain his health after the near-fatal shooting in The Wolf in Winter. Grievously wounded private detective Charlie Parker investigates a case that has its origins in a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War.

On a lonely moor in the northeast of England, the body of a young woman is discovered near the site of a vanished church. In the south, a girl lies buried beneath a Saxon mound. To the southeast, the ruins of a priory hide a human skull. Each is a sacrifice, a summons. And something in the darkness has heard the call. But another is coming: Parker the hunter, the avenger.

In the depths of the Maine woods, the wreckage of an aeroplane is discovered. There are no bodies, and no such plane has ever been reported missing, but men both good and evil have been seeking it for a long, long time. What the wreckage conceals is more important than money: it is power. Hidden in the plane is a list of names, a record of those who have struck a deal with the Devil.

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.

A decade after Nocturnes first terrified and delighted listeners, John Connolly, best-selling author of 13 acclaimed thrillers featuring private investigator Charlie Parker, gives us a second volume of tales of the supernatural. From stories of the monstrous for dark winter nights to fables of fantastic libraries and haunted books, from a tender account of love after death to a frank, personal and revealing account of the author's affection for myths of ghosts and demons, this is a collection that will surprise, delight, and terrify.

Once upon a time, there was a boy who lost his mother.... As twelve-year-old David takes refuge from his grief in the myths and fairytales so beloved of his dead mother, he finds the real world and the fantasy world begin to blend. That is when bad things start to happen. That is when the Crooked Man comes. And David is violently propelled into a land populated by heroes, wolves, and monsters, and begins his quest to find the legendary Book of Lost Things.

Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accident. She is a body without a spirit, a stolen child. Ceres, her mother, can only sit by her bedside and read aloud to Phoebe the fairy stories she loves in the hope they might summon her back to this world. But it is hard to keep faith, so very hard. Now an old house on the hospital grounds, a property connected to a book written by a vanished author, is calling to Ceres. Something wants her to enter, and to journey - to a land coloured by the memories of Ceres's childhood, and the folklore beloved of her father.

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.

Take his hand and follow him into the darkness....John Connolly, bestselling author of five brilliantly scary mystery novels, now turns his pen to the short story to give us a dozen chilling tales of the supernatural. In this macabre collection, echoing masters of the genre from M R James to Stephen King, Connolly delves into our darkest fears - lost lovers, missing children, subterranean creatures and predatory demons.

An extraordinary reimagining of the life of one of the greatest screen comedians the world has ever known: a man who knew both adoration and humiliation; who loved and was loved in turn; who betrayed and was betrayed; who never sought to cause pain to others yet left a trail of affairs and broken marriages in his wake...and whose life was ultimately defined by one relationship of such tenderness and devotion that only death could sever it: his partnership with the man he knew as Babe. he is Stan Laurel. But he did not really exist. Stan Laurel was a fiction.

Three brand new Regency Romance novellas by Elizabeth Johns, Heather B. Moore, and Rebecca Connolly.

La prima raccolta degli audiolibri di Raymond Connolly con protagonista Charlie Parker riunisce i seguenti titoli: "La rabbia degli angeli", "Gente che uccide" e "Il lupo in inverno".

La seconda raccolta degli audiolibri di John Connolly con protagonista Charlie Parker riunisce i seguenti titoli: "ll ciclo delle stagioni", "Un'anima che brucia" e "La canzone delle ombre".

Plus jamais vous ne douterez que les fantômes existent. Charlie Parker, le détective privé tourmenté revenu d'entre les morts, est chargé par Edgar Ross, un agent du FBI, de retrouver Jaycob Eklund, un autre détective manquant à l'appel. L'homme enquêtait discrètement sur une série de meurtres sauvages et de disparitions s'étalant sur plus d'un siècle, tous associés à des événements surnaturels.

Al centro della città di Prosperous sorgono i resti di un'antica chiesa, traslata pietra dopo pietra dall'Inghilterra dai fondatori della comunità, secoli prima. Prosperous è sempre stata un'isola felice. I suoi abitanti sono ricchi, il futuro delle nuove generazioni assicurato. Non c'è posto per chi viene da fuori, non c'è possibilità di scalfire l'ordine costituito. La granitica normalità della cittadina del Maine viene però sconvolta dalla morte violenta di un senzatetto e dalla scomparsa della figlia.

Sono parecchi mesi che Charlie "Bird" Parker non tocca un'arma. Per allontanare il dolore del recente passato ha deciso di occuparsi solo di truffe e frodi aziendali. Ma quando l'ex senatore Jack Mercier gli chiede di indagare sulla morte di Grace Peltier, la figlia del suo vecchio socio d'affari trovata morta nella propria auto, Bird sa di non poter rifiutare l'incarico.

The six stories that represent Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine's March and April 2003 issues exhibit an unusual diversity of almost familiar worlds.

Mentre era sulle tracce di un pericoloso gangster del Rhode Island, il detective privato Jaycob Eklund sembra essere scomparso nel nulla. Edgar Ross, agente speciale dell'FBI, affida a Charlie 'Bird' Parker il difficile incarico di rintracciarlo. Ross ha le sue ragioni per voler trovare Eklund: quest'ultimo, infatti, stava indagando in modo quasi ossessivo su una serie di misteriosi omicidi e sparizioni, riconducibili a un gruppo noto come la Confraternita. La particolarità delle indagini di Eklund è che ciascuno dei casi seguiti sembrerebbe collegato a storie di fantasmi.

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.