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John Connolly in his novel Every Dead Thing shows great potential for developing Charlie "Bird" Parker into the type of detective used for a series of novels as Harry Bosch of Michael Connelly's books and Lincoln Rhyme of Jeffrey Deavers.
Parker is a man tormented by the murders of his wife and daughter , who seeks to atone for his guilt by finding Catherine Demeter. While he is not successful he believes it is time to find his families killer and journeys to the Big Easy.
As many readers noted th ...more
Parker is a man tormented by the murders of his wife and daughter , who seeks to atone for his guilt by finding Catherine Demeter. While he is not successful he believes it is time to find his families killer and journeys to the Big Easy.
As many readers noted th ...more

John Connolly's first novel and the first of the Charlie "Bird" Parker series. This is a very dark, graphic story. Parker's family has been murdered in a very ritualistic way and the murderer has not been found. Leaving behind his previous job as a policeman, Bird has resorted to some private work. But he still wants to find the killer who took his family. Through his work as a PI and his quest to find the killer, he journeys from New York to sultry New Orleans. And along with way, he meets a ca
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Feb 22, 2016
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Connie D
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