The Killing Kind: A Charlie Parker Thriller

John Connolly

Sep 2002 · Charlie Parker Book 3 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

Troubled ex-cop turned private investigator Charlie Parker returns in the latest “compulsively readable” (Publishers Weekly) thriller from #1 internationally bestselling author John Connolly.

John Connolly takes battered ex-cop Charlie Parker on his third outing after Every Dead Thing and Dark Hollow. Still struggling with the horrific ghosts of his past, Parker is now a disillusioned private eye hired to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of Grace Peltier—which neither her father nor a former US Senator believe was suicide. The trail leads to a mass grave in northern Maine where a Baptist community disappeared forty years earlier. The deaths of the Baptists and Grace are connected and point in the direction of a shadowy organization known as the Fellowship. With the assistance of some idiosyncratic and murderous acolytes, Parker soon confronts the Fellowship's demonic leader and finds himself caught in a situation more gruesome than even he could ever have imagined.

Ratings and reviews

Well, he managed to more than reclaim the magic. I loved this one as much as the first two of his that I have read. In fact, certain scenes were even more powerful in this book than in any of the others. I'm very glad that this one turned out to be an autographed copy. Of course, the use of spiders managed to particularly frighten me. It was a very horrifying book. I am quite anxious to read the rest of his novels, but I have unfortunately promised to buy books only with coupons, so it will have to wait until Thursday's Border's coupon. I'll have to read something in the mean time, but I really ought to stay within the mystery/thriller genre... I wonder if I have anything unread that is easily accessible...

A passionate and driven, police detective - gone rogue. Yet, it is his innate gift that evolves and is explored with every book in the series...forever changing his true purpose in crime fighting. Connolly does a great job with research. Read them all!

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About the author

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 Twitter @JConnollyBooks.