The Instruments of Darkness: A Charlie Parker Thriller

Night & Day (Nocturnes 3): Brilliant new supernatural short stories from the acclaimed author of The Book of Lost Things

The Land of Lost Things: the Top Ten Bestseller and highly anticipated follow up to The Book of Lost Things

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

Shadow Voices: 300 Years of Irish Genre Fiction: A History in Stories

The Nameless Ones: Private Investigator Charlie Parker hunts evil in the nineteenth book in the globally bestselling series

The Monks of Appalling Dreadfulness

Samuel Johnson vs the Darkness Trilogy: The Gates, The Infernals, The Creeps

The Dirty South: Private Investigator Charlie Parker hunts evil in the eighteenth book in the globally bestselling series

A Book of Bones: Private Investigator Charlie Parker hunts evil in the seventeenth book in the globally bestselling series

The Woman in the Woods: Private Investigator Charlie Parker hunts evil in the sixteenth book in the globally bestselling series

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A Game of Ghosts: Private Investigator Charlie Parker hunts evil in the fifteenth book in the globally bestselling series

Night Music: Nocturnes 2

A Time of Torment: Private Investigator Charlie Parker hunts evil in the fourteenth book in the globally bestselling series

Dominion

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A Song of Shadows: Private Investigator Charlie Parker hunts evil in the thirteenth book in the globally bestselling series

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Praise for The Instruments of Darkness: A Charlie Parker Thriller

One of the best thriller writers we have - Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author
There's no mistaking a John Connolly novel, with its singular characters, eerie subject matter and socko style - The New York Times
Praise for THE FURIES:
Satisfying twin tales of revenge and blackmail - Irish Independent
Masterly genre-splicing thrillers . . . Connolly's grip is inexorable . . . the violent scenarios he paints are couched in prose that is often poetic - Financial Times

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John Connolly

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.