In John Connolly's second volume of the "Charlie 'Bird' Parker" series, DARK HOLLOW, our ghost-seeing, guilt-ridden P.I. returns to track down a serial killer that his grandfather once hunted.
Thirty-six years earlier, six young women between the ages of eighteen and twenty-two disappeared in northern Maine during the months from April to October. Charlie's grandfather, Bob Warren, assisted in the search for the missing girls, but to no avail...that is, until a mysterious stranger steps into a bar one night and tells him to search the Sebec Lake area. The next day, five of the missing women are found hanging naked from the same oak tree. The stranger's name was Caleb Kyle, and he was never seen again.
Three decades later, Charlie Parker is asked by an old friend, Rita Ferris, to help collect some back child support from her ex-husband, Billy Purdue. A few days afterward, she and her infant child are found murdered and Billy is the natural suspect. It sounds like an open-and-shut case. The only problem is that Billy has vanished, and it seems like everybody in New England is now after him. The local and state police want him for murder. Tony Celli, a member of the Boston mob, thinks that Billy stole two million dollars of his money and will do whatever it takes to get it back. Next in line are two very evil, cold-blooded assassins who want to get their hands on the missing money so that they can retire in style.
Last, but not least, is Charlie Parker.
Charlie believes that Billy might be innocent and that quite possibly Caleb Kyle has returned from a long absence to finally start killing again. Our New England P.I. will eventually find himself up against the most vicious killers he has ever encountered, and Death will be waiting around the corner, hoping that he'll make just one mistake. Even with the help of his friends, Louis and Angel, he may not survive the cost required to find the answers he's seeking and to finally finish what his grandfather once wanted to do - kill Caleb Kyle!
In DARK HOLLOW, Connolly has written a magnificent follow-up to EVERY DEAD THING. He also has a unique gift for creating characters that reek of pure evil and can cause goose bumps to rise on the arms of the reader. DARK HOLLOW is a powerful, multi-layered novel that will chill you to the bone. That it works successfully on a number of different levels is a credit to Mr. Connolly's talent as a writer. He's able to juggle several plot lines without losing pace or confusing the reader, converging them into an electrifying ending that leaves the reader wanting more.
Read EVERY DEAD THING first, then get a copy of DARK HOLLOW.
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