“Mr. Connolly’s slam-bang thriller is studded with memorable characters and boasts cliffhangers within cliffhangers.” —The Wall Street Journal“Brilliant...Connolly is writing at the top of his game.” —Publishers Weekly, starred reviewThe New York Times bestselling author of A Book of Bones and “one of the best thriller writers we have” (Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author) goes back to the very beginning of Private Investigator Charlie Parker’s astonishing career with his first terrifying case.It is 1997, and someone is slaughtering young women in Burdon County, Arkansas.But no one in the Dirty South wants to admit it.In an Arkansas jail cell sits a former NYPD detective, stricken by grief. He is mourning the death of his wife and child, and searching in vain for their killer. Obsessed with avenging his lost family, his life is about to take a shocking turn.Witness the dawning of a conscience.Witness the birth of a hunter.Witness the becoming of Charlie Parker.
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“Mix an excellent story with great characters, and then add audiobook narrator Jeff Harding, who provides a pitch-perfect narration, and it is easy to see why the latest Charlie Parker mystery is so entertaining…Harding’s rough voice is an ideal complement to the gruff nature of the area’s residents. The result is a wonderful, fast-paced audiobook. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.” — AudioFile
“Mix an excellent story with great characters, and then add audiobook narrator Jeff Harding, who provides a pitch-perfect narration, and it is easy to see why the latest Charlie Parker mystery is so entertaining…Harding’s rough voice is an ideal complement to the gruff nature of the area’s residents. The result is a wonderful, fast-paced audiobook. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
“Connolly’s slam-bang thriller is studded with memorable characters and boasts cliffhangers within cliffhangers.”
“Excellent…Brilliant descriptions of the setting enhance this intelligent and subtle suspense novel. Connolly is writing at the top of his game.”
“This outing for Charlie Parker is fresh and revealing, expanding on how he became the man he is today.”
" The Narrator totally killed this story , voice got to the point of ear pain ... as for story , dragged out and got boring , so boring I stopped listening and ejected it "
John Connolly is a New York Times bestselling author known for his detective Charlie Parker mysteries. He also writes the supernatural collection Nocturnes, the Samuel Johnson Trilogy for younger readers, and with co-author Jennifer Ridyard the Chronicles of the Invaders series. His twenty-five novels, nonfiction, and short stories have won the Agatha, Barry, Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony Awards, as well as being finalists for the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year, H. R. F. Keating Award, and Bram Stoker Award.
Jeff Harding, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is one of the most active American actors based in Britain. He is regularly seen in film and television but maintains interest in fringe theater. He is particularly active in voice-over and radio work. Having competed in rowing for many years, he still lives by the Thames and rows regularly.
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