The Lovers: A Charlie Parker Thriller (8)

About this book

New York Times bestselling author John Connolly writes an unfailingly compelling (New Orleans Times-Picayune) and lyrical tale that forces Private Investigator Charlie Parker to examine his haunting past and all that he has ever believed true about his beloved parentsand himself. Charlie Parker is a lost soul. Deprived of his private investigators license and under scrutiny by the police Parker takes a job in a Portland bar. But he uses his enforced retirement to begin a different kind of investigation: an examination of his own past and an inquiry into the death of his father who took his own life after apparently shooting dead two unarmed teenagers. Its a search that will eventually lead Parker to question all that he believed about his beloved parents and about himself. But there are other forces at work: a troubled young woman who is running from an unseen threat one that has already taken the life of her boyfriend; and a journalist-turned-writer named Mickey Wallace who is conducting an investigation of his own. And haunting the shadows as they have done throughout Parkers life are two figures: a man and a woman who seem driven to bring an end to Charlie Parkers existence. Haunting lyrical and impossible to put down The Lovers is John Connolly at his best.