Every Dead Thing: Meet Private Investigator Charlie Parker in the first novel in the award-winning and globally bestselling seri

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Tormented and racked with guilt over the brutal slaying of his wife and daughter, Charlie Parker, ex-cop with the NYPD, agrees to track down a missing girl. It is a search that will lead him into an abyss of evil. At the same time, he is warned by an old black woman in Louisiana that The Travelling Man is about to strike again. Multiple strands converge with a horrific confrontation in which hunter and hunted are intimately connected by guilt.

John Connolly was born in Dublin in 1968. His debut -EVERY DEAD THING - swiftly launched him right into the front rank of thriller writers, and all his subsequent novels have been Sunday Times bestsellers. He is the first non-American writer to win the US Shamus award.

Buy it and be scared - The Times A genuine, gripping page-turner which shreds the nerves and is certain to be one of the thrillers of 1999. - Mike Ripley, Crime Critic of the Daily Telegraph An ambitious, moral, disturbing tale with a stunning climax. - Marcel Berlins, The Times Fantastic - he has raised the standard of modern crime writing - J Wallis Martin Painstaking research, superb characterisation, and an ability to tell a story that's chilling and thought provoking make this a terrific thriller - Mirror A stunning debut . . . EVERY DEAD THING ensnares us in its very first pages and speeds us through a harrowing plot to a riveting climax. I'm already impatient for Bird's next appearance. - Jeffery Deaver