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The Killing Kind

On sale

5th May 2022

Price: £9.99

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781444704709

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EVIL TAKES MANY FORMS.
PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR CHARLIE PARKER HUNTS THEM ALL.

Did Grace Peltier commit suicide? When a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the final resting place of a religious community that disappeared almost forty years earlier, private detective Charlie Parker, hired to investigate the circumstances of her death, realises that their deaths and the violent passing of Grace Peltier are part of the same mystery, one that has its roots in her family history and in the origins of the shadowy organisation known as the Fellowship.

Aided by the genial killers Angel and Louis, Parker must descend into the depths of a honeycomb world populated by dark angels and lost souls, a world where the ghosts of the dead wait for justice and the unwary are prey for the worst kind of creatures. The killing kind. . .

From the number one Sunday Times and multi-million-copy bestselling author John Connolly comes the most compelling and unsettling Charlie Parker thriller yet.

The Charlie Parker novels can be read and enjoyed in any order. The Killing Kind is the third book in this globally bestselling series.

Reviews

<i>Irish Times</i>
As John Connolly plunges ever deeper into the underworld of the damned, the reader, with eyes of slits, must cling on for this brilliantly terrifying ride.
<i>Telegraph Magazine</i>
What makes Parker intriguing is precisely that, though a crusader against evil, he has a dark side: he is haunted by the past, his capacity for violence and guilt.
<i>Live Wire</i>
Connolly's achievement is a literary thriller, charged with menace from beginning to end, taut as it is terrifying.
<i>rí-ra</i>
John Connolly knows how to get you to check the lock on your door before you put the lights out and again before you get into bed.
<i>Evening Standard</i>
Arachnophobes should give this novel a wide berth
<i>Times Play</i>
Connolly has become the leading commentator on Maine's morbidity
<i>What's On</i> (Amazon Books)
Connolly's characters have substance beyond vehicles for horror, and this is what puts him ahead in a crowded genre race
<i>Books</i>
'As the body count increases, Connolly introduces a chilling new villain and an age-old legend. Together they'll keep you on the edge of your seat. Don't read it alone!
<i>Publishers Weekly</i>
Elias Pudd makes Hannibal Lecter seem like Little Lord Fauntleroy. Gripping, intricately plotted, this is no ordinary thriller. . . Also becoming more apparent are the depths of this author's psychological acumen, literary skills and prodigious creativity.
<i>Kirkus Reviews</i>
Connolly's reflections on evil, the past, and reparation are lyrical and affecting, and his grim fundamentalists send off frissons.
<i>Guardian</i>
The unrivalled master of Maine noir. Menace has never been so seductive.
Private Eye
Fast-paced, violent thriller writing done with consummate skill.
Daily Mirror
Connolly does the chill factor brilliantly, creating horror out of the sort of misguided religious fervour not seen since Waco. Mass graves, Parker's sixth sense and deadly spiders set the mind and pulse racing.
<i>Guardian</i>
The unrivalled master of Maine noir. Menace has never been so seductive.
Private Eye
Fast-paced, violent thriller writing done with consummate skill.
Daily Mirror
Connolly does the chill factor brilliantly, creating horror out of the sort of misguided religious fervour not seen since Waco. Mass graves, Parker's sixth sense and deadly spiders set the mind and pulse racing.