Dark Hollow
Private Investigator Charlie Parker hunts evil in the second novel in the globally bestselling series
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4.5 • 11 Ratings
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- €2.99
Publisher Description
The thing which I greatly feared is come upon me . . .
Retreating to the wintry Maine of his childhood, Charlie Parker mourns the first anniversary of his wife and daughter's deaths. But the voices of the dead ring loud in the silence.
Impelled by the gruesome similarity to his past, Parker pursues the case of another young woman killed with her child. But during the investigation a name is mentioned. A name that connects Charlie Parker directly to the case. A name with a dark history.
As the deepening mystery delivers more violence, events converge on a confrontation between Charlie Parker and a monster incarnate.
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Praise for Dark Hollow:
'Classic'
BERNARD CORNWELL
'Exciting'
Sunday Times
'One of the great writers of our generation'
NICHOLAS SPARKS
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Irish writer Connolly's follow-up to Every Dead Thing, which won the 2000 Shamus Award for Best PI First Novel, is just as grim, hard-edged and compulsively readable as his debut. Recently relocated to his home town of Scarborough, Maine, newly licensed PI Charlie Parker tries to get some overdue child support from wastrel Billy Purdue as a favor to Purdue's ex-wife Rita, an act of charity that ends up pitting Parker and his friends Angel and Luis against mobster Tony Celli. Celli is looking for $2 million that Purdue might have heisted during a botched ransom exchange, and a pair of killers named Abel and Stritch are on the loose. There's also a trail of dead bodies, all of them linked to Purdue's search for his birth parents, a line that stretches from his family to an old woman who kills herself after running away from a nursing home. She claims to have seen Caleb Kyle, a vicious serial killer who hasn't been heard from since Parker's youth. It's this element of the plot that lends a supernatural air to the already creepy proceedings (Parker has visions of his dead wife and daughter); the book opens like a Stephen King novel, with a violent prologue, visions of nameless evil darkening the stars, and the dead past coming alive. Since the novel is set in Maine, it feels like an homage to the master of Pine Tree State horror. Luckily, this very violent hunt for a revived serial killer can survive comparison with the best, especially when you consider that Connolly is creating pitch-perfect American dialogue and believable American characters from a desk in Dublin.
