Still recovering from his life-threatening wounds, private detective Charlie Parker investigates a case that has its origins in a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War. Parker has retreated to the small Maine town of Boreas to regain his strength. There he befriends a widow named Ruth Winter and her young daughter, Amanda. But Ruth has her secrets. Old atrocities are about to be unearthed, and old sinners will kill to hide their sins. Now Parker is about to risk his life to defend a woman he barely knows, one who fears him almost as much as she fears those who are coming for her. His enemies believe him to be vulnerable. Fearful. Solitary. But they are wrong. Parker is far from afraid, and far from alone. For something is emerging from the shadows . . .
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Connolly And Parker Never Disappoint Me
John Connolly is one of the elite story tellers and thriller writers in literature today. His work with the Charlie Parker novels reflects great plotting, deep intense characterizations, flawed heroes, psychological entanglements and moral complexities, and often, a tasting of the paranormal, if not, supernatural. Connolly is much more than a pulp writer hurrying to produce several novels every year. Instead, he is a master wordsmith, an intelligent manipulator of prose and language designed to affect the reader's sensitivities both in context and in presentation; indeed, I often find myself rereading a paragraph or a description of a place or person that is so lyrical as to demand a second reading. Connolly is a master at creating a sense of forboding or a palpable feel of evil with only a few well chosen words. He is a master at creating forbidding locations and evil incarnate. His dialogue is usually spot-on and often times humorous, especially when Charlie Parker, Angel, and Louis are interacting and one-upping. Connolly's plots within the Charlie Parker series are tightly woven and filled with enough characters and red herrings to keep most diehard readers guessing until the end. In "A Song Of Shadows", Connolly develops a plot contrasting a battle between good and evil that has its roots in the Nazi concentration camps of WWII. Parker is slowly recovering from his near fatal wounds from "The Wolf In Winter" in the small town of Boreas, Maine when he meets an enigmatic woman named Ruth Winter and her young daughter, Amanda. Soon he is consulting on a case of a body that has washed up on a nearby beach and is equally intrigued by a family massacre, and a missing suspected killer--all of which may be interrelated and which leads inevitably into a morass of evil that began with a hideous plot of murder and thievery in a specialized Nazi concentration camp called Lubsko. Who among the inhabitants of small town Boreas is actually somehow related to the horrors of...
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