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A decade after Nocturnes first terrified and delighted listeners, John Connolly, best-selling author of 13 acclaimed thrillers featuring private investigator Charlie Parker, gives us a second volume of tales of the supernatural. From stories of the monstrous for dark winter nights to fables of fantastic libraries and haunted books, from a tender account of love after death to a frank, personal and revealing account of the author's affection for myths of ghosts and demons, this is a collection that will surprise, delight, and terrify.

Charlie Parker ha da poco riacquistato la sua licenza di investigatore privato quando viene interpellato da Bennett Patchett, il proprietario di un diner nei pressi di Portland, piuttosto scettico riguardo alle circostanze del suicidio del figlio, reduce dell'Iraq. Non ci vuole molto perché si scopra che Joel Tobias, ex comandante della squadra di Damien Patchett, conduce uno stile di vita decisamente sopra le righe e che i suoi andirivieni dal Canada sono tutt'altro che innocui viaggi di lavoro.

Quando un incidente d'auto lascia Phoebe, di otto anni, in coma, i medici consigliano alla madre Ceres di trasferirla in una struttura di cura costruita nella proprietà di uno scrittore scomparso anni prima. Ceres trascorre il tempo al capezzale della bambina leggendole il suo libro di favole preferito. La vecchia casa dello scrittore, situata nello stesso terreno del centro, sembra richiamare Ceres che cede alla tentazione di esplorarla e viene condotta in un mondo che credeva potesse esistere solo nelle pagine di un libro.

The “consistently high-quality” (Booklist) Charlie Parker series continues with a white-knuckled new thriller from New York Times bestselling author John Connolly. Wyatt Riggins, the boyfriend of rising Maine artist Zetta Nadeau, has gone missing, leaving behind a cell phone containing a...

È il 1997 e qualcuno sta massacrando giovani donne nella contea di Burdon, in Arkansas. Ma nessuno nello Sporco Sud vuole ammetterlo. In una cella di prigione dell’Arkansas siede un ex detective della polizia di New York, affranto dal dolore. Sta piangendo la morte di sua moglie e sua figlia e cerca invano il loro assassino. Ossessionato dall’idea di vendicare la famiglia, la sua vita sta per prendere una piega sconvolgente. La nuova alba di una coscienza, la nascita di un cacciatore, la trasformazione di Charlie Parker.

'Connolly grips like a vice and he's an extraordinary storyteller' Crime Time 'One of the best thriller writers we have' Harlan Coben Wyatt Riggins, the boyfriend of rising Maine artist Zetta Nadeau, has gone missing, leaving behind a cell phone containing a single-word message: RUN. Private...

'John Connolly is such a brilliant author, I recommend any of his stuff' Richard Osman on The Rest is Entertainment '[An] absolute corker from Ireland's best mystery writer ... utterly gripping' Express The players call it The Game. There are just two rules: No killing close to home. No Killing...

Tortured and brilliant private detective Charlie Parker stars in this thriller by New York Times bestselling author John Connolly. Former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker is on the verge of madness. Tortured by the unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter, he is a man consumed by...

The start of an epic new series from bestselling author John Connolly, and Jennifer Ridyard. For fans of THE 5TH WAVE and I AM NUMBER FOUR. Earth is no longer ours. It is ruled by the Illyri, a beautiful, civilised yet ruthless alien species. But humankind has not given up the fight, and Paul...

Three hundred years ago, the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed by one of their own, and slaughtered. Now a band of killers has returned to Sanctuary to seek revenge on a young woman and her son, and the only people who stand in their way are a young rookie officer and...

Charlie Parker's investigations draw him into a world of modern furies; goddesses of vengeance. The Furies: mythological snake-haired goddesses of vengeance, pursuers of those who have committed unavenged crimes. Now, private investigator C harlie Parker is drawn into a world of modern furies...

Still raw from the brutal slayings of his wife and daughter, and the events surrounding the capture of their killer, The Travelling Man, Charlie Parker retreats to the wintry Maine landscape of his childhood. By following in the steps of his beloved grandfather, Parker hopes to heal his spirit...

They are the Reapers, the elite among killers. Men so terrifying that their names are mentioned only in whispers. The assassin Louis is one of them. But now Louis, and his partner, Angel, are themselves targets. And there is no shortage of suspects. A wealthy recluse sends them north to a town...

When Charlie Parker was still a boy, his father, a NYPD cop, killed a young couple, a boy and a girl barely older than his son, then took his own life. There was no explanation for his actions. Now Parker is working on his most personal case yet: an investigation into his own origins and the...

Charlie Parker returns in the chilling new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE LOVERS. The border between Maine and Canada is porous. Anything can be smuggled across it: drugs, cash, weapons, people. Now a group of disenchanted former soldiers has begun its own smuggling...

The Black Angel is not an object. The Black Angel is not a myth. The Black Angel lives. A young woman goes missing from the streets of New York. Those who have taken her believe that nobody cares about her, and that no one will come looking for her. They are wrong. She is 'blood' to the killer...

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...

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...

Daniel Clay, a once-respected psychiatrist, has been missing for years following revelations about harm done to the children in his care. Believing him dead, his daughter Rebecca has tried to come to terms with her father's legacy, but her fragile peace is about to be shattered. Someone is...

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...