THE BRAND NEW CHARLIE PARKER NOVEL, SET IN THE DARK WOODS OF MAINE AND THE DESERTS OF MEXICO: A MASTERPIECE OF TENSION AND DRAMA. In Mexico, a rare books dealer returns to his shop to find it overrun with spiders, all circling a deadly presence lying in wait, seeking both answers and the still-warm heart from within his body. Charlie Parker is asked by a friend to track down her lover who mysteriously disappeared without warning, his mobile phone showing only one word: RUN. As Parker follows the trail left by this man, he is drawn into the dark world of artefacts dealers, of people trafficking, and of a mother who will stop at nothing to reunite her children, in this world or the next. Praise for John Connolly: ''John Connolly is the creator of a unique blend of thriller and horror who receives rave reviews every time'' Sunday Telegraph ''One of the best thriller writers we have'' Harlan Coben ''Dark and dangerous ... but where there is also kindness, loyalty, love. Ultimately, it''s a story of hope'' Irish Examiner

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John Connolly is author of the Charlie Parker mysteries, The Book of Lost Things, the Samuel Johnson novels for young adults and, with his partner, Jennifer Ridyard, co-author of the Chronicles of the Invaders. John Connolly's debut - EVERY DEAD THING - introduced the character of Private Investigator Charlie Parker, and swiftly launched him right into the front rank of thriller writers. All his subsequent novels have been Sunday Times bestsellers. He was the winner of the 2016 CWA Short Story Dagger for On the Anatomization of an Unknown Man (1637) by Frans Mier from NIGHT MUSIC: Nocturnes Vol 2.

In 2007 he was awarded the Irish Post Award for Literature. He was the first non-American writer to win the US Shamus award and the first Irish writer to win an Edgar award. BOOKS TO DIE FOR, which he edited with Declan Burke, was the winner of the 2013 Anthony, Agatha and Macavity awards for Best Non-Fiction work.

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'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 investigator Charlie Parker is hired to find out why Riggins has fled, and from whom.

Parker discovers that Riggins, an ex-soldier, has been involved in the abduction of four children from Mexico: three girls and a boy, all belonging to the cartel boss Blas Urrea - except Urrea's family is safe and well in Mexico, which means the abductees cannot be his children. Yet whoever they are, Urrea wants them back, and has dispatched his agents to secure them, even if it means butchering everyone who stands in their way.

One of those agents is Eugene Seeley, a clever, ruthless solver of other men's problems. The other is an unknown woman.

Every child has a mother. Now Charlie Parker will face one unlike any other, and learn the terrifying truth about the Children of Eve.

Praise for John Connolly:

'John Connolly is the creator of a unique blend of thriller and horror who receives rave reviews every time' Sunday Telegraph
'Dark and dangerous . . . but where there is also kindness, loyalty, love'** Irish Examiner**
'To my mind, Connolly is Ireland's Stephen King' Matt Nixson, The Express