Reviews

"Kirkus Reviews"Connolly's honest but brutal characterizations leave the reader with wounds that need stitching.

"The Express" (London)A master storyteller.

"Toronto Sun"[Connolly is] one of the best in the genre.

After Every Dead Thing and Dark Hollow, Connolly's damaged P.I. Charlie Parker is back in his third foray into an underworld populated with cruel villains and criminal psychopaths. Parker is a singularly tortured individual who not only sees dead people but feels compelled to seek retribution for their deaths on their behalf. This time around, he is hired to find the killer of a graduate student who had been researching a fundamentalist sect that disappeared into the backwoods of Maine 40 years before. Parker's investigations, ranging from Maine to New York City, draw the ire of some very bad people, who come after him armed with guns, Bibles, and spiders. The Dublin-based Connolly has again written a compelling story full of sadistic bad guys, moral ambiguity, and some serious violence. But he manages to offset some of the unpleasantness with occasional one-liners that manage not to minimize the perversity but make the characters who must deal with it seem more human. Recommended for most popular fiction collections. Lisa Bier, Southern Connecticut State Univ., New Haven Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

"Kirkus Reviews"

Connolly's honest but brutal characterizations leave the reader with wounds that need stitching.

"The Express" (London)

A master storyteller.

"Toronto Sun"

[Connolly is] one of the best in the genre.