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

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Hot on the heels of Buker is a mysterious collector of coins, a man who will stop at nothing to get back what was taken from him. Born in 1970, Santa Montefiore (née Palmer-Tomkinson) is the daughter of Charles Palmer-Tomkinson, formerly High Sheriff of Hampshire, and Patricia Palmer-Tomkinson (née Dawson), of Anglo-Argentine background. Posting some short reviews because I feel like crap also a lot of terrible news has hit and I don't have the bandwidth.

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. Yes, because the usual trademarks are there, well-written, excellent turn of phrase, Angel and Louis, dark forces at play etc.As usual, he turns to his good friends for help so we have appearances from Louis and Angel and the Fulci brothers. Both demonstrate his strengths: Charlie Parker himself with his code of behavior; Charlie’s various, and quite varied associates who offer a wide assortment of aid in his work; a deep knowledge of the inner workings of New England and its criminal underworld; that ever present, but varyingly used, supernatural world; and of course his personal history which has colored his entire adult life.

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. John Connolly's ability to make them and those who inhabit or haunt their world so compelling is genius. 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. Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense. 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 in this “must-read for the author’s fans and a good introduction to the series for newbie” ( Booklist).Second, both 'The Sisters Strange' and 'The Furies' were nothing less than despondent in their horror/thriller elements. It's nice to see the outside world (COVID-19) intruding on this book, so we know this is taking place in "our world".

My earliest reading was English ghost stories, that tradition of MR James, E Nesbit, and I have a fascination with folk horror, the idea of the past being alive in the present and you can’t really set that kind of book in the United States.

In his attempt to help the sisters, Charlie finds himself drawn into what should be a simple theft of some valuable coins but this is a Charlie Parker thriller so of course nothing is as simple as it seems. 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 both novellas, the atmosphere is always dark, dank, with some supernatural things lurking in the background. Syl becomes an outcast, an enemy of her people, for daring to save the life of one human: Paul Kerr. Then also, the Fractured Atlas has been dispersed, sewn into other books as a way of trying to get rid of it and the book essentially has fragments of the Atlas in it.