Samuel Johnson v. The Devil, Round II. Ask not for whom the bell tolls. Just start running.

'Once upon a time, there was a boy who lost his mother ...' As twelve-year-old David takes refuge from his grief in the myths and fairytales so beloved of his dead mother, he finds the real world and the fantasy world begin to blend. That is when bad things start to happen. That is when the Crook[...]

Take his hand and follow him into the darkness ...John Connolly, bestselling author of seven brilliantly scary mystery novels, now turns his pen to the short story to give us a volume of chilling tales of the supernatural. In this macabre collection, echoing masters of the genre from M R James to St[...]

Hailed internationally as a page-turner in a league with the fiction of Thomas Harris, this lyrical and terrifying bestseller is the stunning achievement of an "extravagantly gifted" ("Kirkus Reviews)" new novelist. John Connolly superbly taps into the tortured mind and gritty world of former NYPD d[...]

Internationally acclaimed author John Connolly thrilled readers with his debut bestseller, "Every Dead Thing." Now he gives a new name to fear with this atmospheric, spine-tingling page-turner. DARK HOLLOW Haunted by the murder of his wife and daughter, former New York police detective Charlie Parke[...]

Hailed as "one of the best" ("Toronto Sun") writers of contemporary suspense fiction, international bestselling author John Connolly returns with an electrifying novel featuring his acclaimed private detective, Charlie Parker. In South Carolina, a young black man faces the death penalty for the rap[...]

When a young woman disappears from the streets of New York City, ties of friendship and blood inevitably draw ingenious, tortured detective Charlie Parker into the search. Soon he discovers links to a church of bones in Eastern Europe, a 1944 slaughter at a French monastery, and to the myth of an ob[...]

In the aftermath of a once-respected psychiatrist's disappearance and the discovery of harm he had inflicted on his child patients, private detective Charlie Parker finds himself torn between those who would reveal and protect the doctor's secrets, a case that is complicated by the machinations of a[...]

A brilliantly chilling novel by "New York Times" bestselling author John Connolly about a chain of killings, linked obscurely by great distances and the passage of years, and the settling of their blood-debts -- past, present, and future. As a small boy, Louis witnesses an unspeakable crime that ta[...]

""'Oh, little one, ' he whispered, as he gently stroked her cheek, the first time he had touched her in fifteen years. 'What have they done to you? What have they done to us all' ""In his latest dark and chilling Charlie Parker thriller, New York Times bestselling author John Connolly takes us to th[...]

"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 PARENTS--AND HIMSELF. Stripped of[...]

High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother. He is angry and alone, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness, and as he takes refuge in his imagination, he finds that reality and fantasy have begun [...]

Tormented and racked with guilt over the brutal slaying of his wife and daughter, Charlie Parker, ex-cop with the NYPD, agrees to track down a missing girl. It is a search that will lead him into an abyss of evil. At the same time, he is warned by an old black woman in Louisiana that 'The Travelli[...]