Every dead thing
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Charlie 'Bird' Parker novels volume 1.
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Have faith. I will find you. Former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker is on the verge of madness. Tortured by the unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter, he is a man consumed by guilt, regret, and the desire for revenge. When his former partner asks him to track down a missing girl, Parker finds himself drawn into a world beyond his imagining: a world where thirty-year-old killings remain shrouded in fear and lies, a world where the ghosts of the dead torment the living, a world haunted by the murderer responsible for the deaths in his family -- a serial killer who uses the human body to create works of art and takes faces as his prize. But the search awakens buried instincts in Parker: instincts for survival, for compassion, for love, and, ultimately, for killing. Aided by a beautiful young psychologist and a pair of bickering career criminals, Parker becomes the bait in a trap set in the humid bayous of Louisiana, a trap that threatens the lives of everyone in its reach. Driven by visions of the dead and the voice of an old black psychic who met a terrible end, Parker must seek a final, brutal confrontation with a murderer who has moved beyond all notions of humanity, who has set out to create a hell on earth: the serial killer known only as the Traveling Man. In the tradition of classic American detective fiction, Every Dead Thing is a tense, richly plotted thriller, filled with memorable characters and gripping action. It is also a profoundly moving novel, concerned with the nature of loyalty, love, and forgiveness. Lyrical and terrifying, it is an ambitious debut, triumphantly realized.
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Subjects
Detective and mystery fiction
Ex-police officers
Ex-police officers -- Fiction
Fiction
Louisiana -- Fiction
Mystery
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Parker, Charlie "Bird"
Parker, Charlie "Bird" -- (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Psychological fiction
Serial murderers
Serial murderers -- Fiction
Suspense
Thriller
Thrillers (Fiction)
Ex-police officers
Ex-police officers -- Fiction
Fiction
Louisiana -- Fiction
Mystery
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Parker, Charlie "Bird"
Parker, Charlie "Bird" -- (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Psychological fiction
Serial murderers
Serial murderers -- Fiction
Suspense
Thriller
Thrillers (Fiction)
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9780684857145
9781416517252
9781416517252
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Last Grouping Update | 2024-04-28 06:22:53AM |
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