The Furies: Private Investigator Charlie Parker looks evil in the eye in the globally bestselling series (Charlie Parker Thriller)

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Shadows are gathering in the skies, a black heart of pure evil is bubbling with revenge, and it rather looks as if the Multiverse is about to come to an end, starting with Biddlecombe. I was a bit doubtful if the two in one would feel rushed and not have the same depth as usual, but I didn't feel I missed anything.

Back in Pennsylvania, a “poisonous” old man named Edwin Ellerkamp is found choked to death, his mouth and throat engorged with coins dating as far back as the seventh and eighth centuries. As if that isn’t enough, Parker also agrees to assist the daughter of a client who is trapped in an abusive relationship. Thank you to NetGalley, Author John Connolly and Atria Books for my advanced copy to read and review.

Both stories incorporate a bit of the supernatural, something I just learned is typical of Connolly’s books. Newcomers will find Parker embroiled in a case revolving around a stolen antiquity, a spate of murders and thieves, and an unusual love triangle at the center of it all. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Kepler sees and feels himself rotting away as he reads decades-old newspapers, so maybe finding that precious coin will cure what ails him.

In The Furies, Parker is hired on two separate cases by women trying to save their daughters from evil men. Ceres, her mother, can only sit by her bedside and read aloud the fairy stories Phoebe loves in the hope they might summon her back to this world. Where The Sisters Strange holds back the supernatural in favour of the monstrosity humans are capable of though, The Furies throws itself wholeheartedly into that mysterious realm of ghosts and monsters – though of course, plenty of the humans involved are more than capable of presenting their own threat. This can be an effective storytelling device, but in this case, waiting for the private investigator heroine to get to where the reader is at the beginning of the story feels interminable.Indeed, the novel does double duty as a survival manual, packed full of good advice—for instance, try not to get wounded, for “injury turns you from a giver to a taker. The other case is Parker dipping his foot into intervening in domestic violence and these cases have a way of turning on the do-gooder. The first, The Sisters Strange, involves the theft of rare coins: Charlie is hired to keep a watchful eye on Dolors Strange, who may be tangled up with one of the thieves. And in the title novel, The Furies, Parker must protect two women under threat as Portland shuts down in the face of a global pandemic. New York Times bestselling author John Connolly pits Parker against two separate — but vitally connected — investigations, which prove to be among the most complicated of his entire career.

But even on a relatively balmy August night, minus open fire and with only a glass of cold water gathering condensation on the bedside table, Connolly can send a chill down your spine. And she was the central character in If It Bleeds, a novella in the 2020 collection of the same name. Now they have been hired to hunt down and kill the demon Nurd, along with every friend he’s ever had.Connolly always leaves that little shred of doubt in the reader's head - as he does with Charlie, too. Posting some short reviews because I feel like crap also a lot of terrible news has hit and I don't have the bandwidth. I press him on the book’s length, a particular bugbear of mine in contemporary crime fiction (although the truth remains: it’s never too long if, as here, the writing is good enough).

When Samuel and his faithful dachshund, Boswell, are pulled through a portal into the dark realm, home of the Infernals, it gets its chance. Raum has a tendency to dare his enemies “which bespoke a degree of confidence in himself to which he had no right”. I felt like the last few books lost the magic of the earlier Charlie Parker series, but this one (two stories in one book) brings it all back. In both, Parker takes on cases that perhaps he should not for there is little to be gained for him and a lot to be lost.While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a land that is a strange reflection of his own world, populated by heroes and monsters, and ruled over by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a mysterious book… The Book of Lost Things. Connolly is mostly known for his series of novels starring the anti-hero private detective Charlie Parker, a former police officer hunting the killer of his wife and daughter. Parker is hired by the woman, a nice lady with a sad history and an unfortunate tie to the New England mafia.