John Connolly

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, one involving a husband too eager to accept his wife's guilt, a disgraced psychic seeking redemption, and an old crooked house deep in the Maine woods, a house that should never have been built. A house, and what dwells beneath.

Following the highly acclaimed Nocturnes and Night Music, Night & Day is filled with eerie surprises and dark delights. 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 reading late into the night.

From the bestselling author of the Charlie Parker mystery series - 'the finest crime series currently in existence' (Independent) - comes a new book for fans of THE BOOK OF LOST THINGS. Twice upon a time - for that is how some stories should continue . . . 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 her 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, to a land of witches and dryads, giants and mandrakes; to a land where old enemies are watching, and waiting. To the Land of Lost Things.

Twice upon a time - for that is how some stories should continue... 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, to a land of witches and dryads, giants and mandrakes; to a land where old enemies are watching, and waiting. To the Land of Lost Things. For anyone who loved THE BOOK OF LOST THINGS and for all readers who enjoy dark, beautifully written fables that explore the heart of the human condition: love, loyalty and sacrifice.

A barátai – befolyásosak. Az áldozatai – tehetetlenek. Az ellene felépített ügy – biztos lábakon áll. Az ítélet – megdöbbentő. A kérdés, ami mindenkiben felmerül az ügye kapcsán – miért? Jeffrey Epstein, a befolyásos pénzember szerény körülmények közül küzdötte fel magát New York City kiváltságos elitjének soraiba. A számokhoz – és emberekhez – ösztönös érzékkel nyúló Epstein nem fejezte be az egyetemet, de kapcsolatai és képességei révén hatalmas vagyont gyűjtött össze. De hiába volt meg mindene, Epstein mégis többet akart. Kielégíthetetlen vágya – és főleg a kiskorú lányok iránti étvágya – végül látványos bukáshoz vezetett. Egy sor fiatal nő lépett elő – szexuális bántalmazási vádakkal ellene, melyek hátborzongató részletei egész Palm Beachet megrázták. Az Epstein körüli botrány részleteit bemutató kötet feltárja az ügy minden oldalát. Az ügyét, mely elborzasztotta Amerika egyik leggazdagabb közösségét, és az egész világ figyelmét magára vonta. A fényűző házaiban masszőrként dolgozó lányok, híres és befolyásos barátok, az ügyében nyomozó rendőrök és Epstein maga – a szerzők minden követ megmozgatnak, hogy hűen meséljék el a történetet. A bűnök súlyossága és a beismerés ellenére Epstein először döbbenetesen enyhe büntetést kapott. A Mocskosul gazdag a vagyon és a hatalom története, melyből kiderül, hogy Amerika leggazdagabbjai kisebb árat fizetnek a bűneikért. Elképesztő igaz történet a világ egyik legnépszerűbb thrillerszerzőjétől

The new thrilling instalment of John Connolly's popular Charlie Parker series. He is our best hope. He is our last hope. 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 shadows has heard the call. But another is coming: Parker the hunter, the avenger. Parker's mission takes him from Maine to the deserts of the Mexican border; from the canals of Amsterdam to the streets of London - he will track those who would cast this world into darkness. Parker fears no evil. But evil fears him . . .

Parker musí zneškodnit Mrtvého krále… Jerome Burnel byl chvíli hrdinou. Zabránil několikanásobné vraždě, ale sebe tím zničil. Jeho život se ocitl v troskách. Zavřeli ho, mučili. Po propuštění z vězení se rozhodl svěřit se se svým příběhem detektivu Parkerovi. Vypráví o záchraně dívky, jež měla zemřít; mluví o těch, kdo ho trýznili, a o bytostech, jimž slouží. Charlie Parker je jiný než ostatní. Je odhodlaný rozpoutat a vést s nimi válku. Míří do izolované komunity žijící v místě zvaném Puklina a čelí přesile lidí, jež se řídí pravidly teroru, vydírání a vražd.

Staré zločiny druhé světové války Soukromý detektiv Charlie Parker se zotavuje z těžkého zranění, ale přesto se podílí na vyšetřování dalšího případu. Rekonvalescence ho přivádí do zdánlivě poklidného městečka v Maine, kde se spřátelí s Ruth Winterovou. Jenže Ruth má svá tajemství a před někým se skrývá. A tak Parker opět riskuje život ve snaze ochránit ženu, kterou sotva zná. Ženu, jež se ho bojí téměř stejně, jako se on obává toho, co si přichází pro ni. Tentokrát se detektiv Parker střetává s temnými silami, jejichž kořeny sahají až do nacistického koncentračního tábora během druhé větové války. Jeho nepřátelé se domnívají, že je bezbranný. Vystrašený. Osamělý. Ale jsou na omylu. Parker se vůbec nebojí a vůbec není sám. Protože něco vyvstává z temnoty stínů...

Městečku Prosperous se daří, i když ostatní trpí. Jeho obyvatelé jsou bohatší než ostatní, budoucnost jejich dětí se zdá zajištěná. Důsledně se straní všech lidí přicházejících zvenčí a své vlastní chrání. Středobodem společenství je středověký kostelík ozdobený pohanskými výjevy, který sem byl zakladateli Prosperous před staletími dopraven kámen po kameni ze severovýchodní Anglie. Zdá se, že šlo o členy tehdy pronásledované sekty. Smrt portlandského bezdomovce a nevysvětlené zmizení jeho dcery však ke komunitě obrátí pozornost neústupného soukromého detektiva Charlieho Parkera. Ten je pro své nepřátele opravdu nebezpečný, protože nezná soucit a žene ho touha po pomstě. Jenže místní společenství mainského městečka patří k nejkrutějším protivníkům, na jaké dosud narazil. Buď zabijí oni jeho, nebo nepřežije nikdo z nich.

'A brilliantly creepy coming of age novel' Daily Mirror 'A moving fable, brilliantly imagined, about the agony of loss and the pain of young adulthood' The Times 'This is no saccharine fairytale, but an eerie fable that's perfect for long winter nights' Daily Mail This illustrated edition includes two new short stories - Cinderella, A Version and The Rat King, the latter introducing the Crooked Man who is central to the world of The Book of Lost Things - and an afterword from the author. '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 in his quest to find the legendary Book of Lost Things.

Grievously wounded private detective Charlie Parker investigates a case that has its origins in a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War. Broken, but undeterred, private detective Charlie Parker faces the darkest of dark forces in a case with its roots in the second world war, and a concentration camp unlike any other ...Recovering from a near-fatal shooting and tormented by memories of a world beyond this one, Parker has retreated to the small Maine town of Boreas to recover. There he befriends a widow named Ruth Winter and her young daughter, Amanda. But Ruth has her secrets. She is hiding from the past, and the forces that threaten her have their origins in the Second World War, in a town called Lubko and a concentration camp unlike any other. Old atrocities are about to be unearthed, and old sinners will kill to hide their sins. Now Parker is about to risk his life to defend a woman he barely knows, one who fears him almost as much as she fears those who are coming for her. His enemies believe him to be vulnerable. Fearful. Solitary. But they are wrong. Parker is far from afraid, and far from alone. For something is emerging from the shadows ...

His client is dead. But Charlie Parker will not rest ...The community of Prosperous, Maine, has always thrived when others have suffered. Its inhabitants are wealthy, its children's future secure. It shuns outsiders. It guards its own. The death of a homeless man and the disappearance of his daughter draw the haunted, lethal private investigator Charlie Parker to Prosperous. Parker is a dangerous man, driven by compassion, by rage, and by the desire for vengeance. In him the town and its protectors sense a threat graver than any they have faced in their long history, and in the comfortable, sheltered inhabitants of a small Maine town, Parker will encounter his most vicious opponents yet. Charlie Parker has been marked to die so that Prosper ous may survive.

Randall Haight má tajemství: jako teenager spolu s kamarádem zavraždil čtrnáctiletou dívku. Teď má možnost začít nový život. Žije v malém městě v Pastor Bay ve státě Maine. Nečekaně se objevuje někdo, kdo ví o jeho provinění. Trýzní Randalla anonymními vzkazy, vyhrožuje, že odhalí jeho kriminální minulost. Randall chce, aby mu soukromý detektiv Charlie Parker pomohl a ten se musí pokusit rozplést síť klamů a lží, do nichž je vtažena policie, FBI, člen gangu Tommy Morris i samotný Randall Haight, který nejspíš neříká pravdu…

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. Now a battle is about to commence between those who want the list to remain secret and those who believe that it represents a crucial weapon in the struggle against the forces of darkness. The race to secure the prize draws in private detective Charlie Parker, a man who knows more than most about the nature of the terrible evil that seeks to impose itself on the world, and who fears that his own name may be on the list. It lures others too: a beautiful, scarred woman with a taste for killing; a silent child who remembers his own death; and the serial killer known as the Collector, who sees in the list new lambs for his slaughter. But as the rival forces descend upon this northern state, the woods prepare to meet them, for the forest depths hide other secrets. Someone has survived the crash. Some thing has survived the crash. And it is waiting ...

Randall Haight has a secret: when he was a teenager, he and his friend killed a 14-year-old girl. Randall did his time and built a new life in the small Maine town of Pastor's Bay, but somebody has discovered the truth about Randall. He is being tormented by anonymous messages, haunting reminders of his past crime, and he wants private detective Charlie Parker to make it stop. But another 14-year-old girl has gone missing, this time from Pastor's Bay, and the missing girl's family has its own secrets to protect. Now Parker must unravel a web of deceit involving the police, the FBI, a doomed mobster named Tommy Morris, and Randall Haight himself. Because Randall Haight is telling lies ...