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I enjoyed this one as much as Every Dead Thing and The Book of Lost Things. There were some very powerfully graphic scenes that offered the most suspenseful of the Charlie Parker series.
Since spiders do completely frighten me, this book certainly had its moments of giving me that creeping feeling and turning up the lights to make sure that spiders hadn't crawled out of fiction and into reality in my room! This one was certainly the most horrifying, at least in conjunction with my particular phobias.
I am quite anxious to read his other books!
Since spiders do completely frighten me, this book certainly had its moments of giving me that creeping feeling and turning up the lights to make sure that spiders hadn't crawled out of fiction and into reality in my room! This one was certainly the most horrifying, at least in conjunction with my particular phobias.
I am quite anxious to read his other books!
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Good character development, good action - I like this author!
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This is not your run of the mill thriller. The Killing Kind is intelligently written, in a style that is as intense as it is lyrical. This is book 3 of the Charlie Parker series and though it stands alone, it also resolves some of the questions left unanswered in the first two books. A great read!
Charlie "Bird" Parker, who's a tortured soul, finally has gotten some peace in his life. He's only taking on white collar cases and has gotten some of the violence out of his life. When he's hired to investigate the death of a young woman he once knew, he's forced back into the life he's been trying to distance himself from. Very dark and violent, yet so eloquently written. Not for the faint of heart.
ANOTHER EXCITING CHARLEY PARKER YOU CANT PUT IT DOWN
This was another intense thriller in the Charlie Parker series from Connolly. I have read a few others in the series and have enjoyed them all. In this one Parker is hired to look into the death of a young woman who he had at one time dated named Grace Peltier. She had been found shot to death in her car and her death was ruled a probable suicide. But the man who hired Parker feels she may have been murdered. Parker reluctantly agrees to investigate and gets drawn into a strange web of confusion and conflict with a group of religious zealots who are against abortion, liberalism, Jews, and anyone that may be opposed to their views. The enforcer for this group is named Mr. Pudd who is one of the vilest villains I have encountered in literature. He uses spiders and insects to kill his victims as well as cutting sections of their skin off. This group is tied to a religious fanatic who founded a sect called the Aroostook Baptists who vanished in the 1960s. Grace Peltier had been researching this group trying to find out their fate and her death seems to be tied to her research.
This novel contained the usual cast of characters including Parker's girlfriend, Rachel, and his two dangerous friends Louis and Angel. All of them are thrown into the path of great peril in the story. And as usual, there are instances of the supernatural where Parker is able to see and converse with the dead including some of the disappeared from the Aroostook Baptists. I would highly recommend this one but take care if you are an arachnophobe! I'll be looking forward to continuing with this great series.
This novel contained the usual cast of characters including Parker's girlfriend, Rachel, and his two dangerous friends Louis and Angel. All of them are thrown into the path of great peril in the story. And as usual, there are instances of the supernatural where Parker is able to see and converse with the dead including some of the disappeared from the Aroostook Baptists. I would highly recommend this one but take care if you are an arachnophobe! I'll be looking forward to continuing with this great series.
Enjoyed the story; although a bit gory. Some good action.
Third in the Charlie Parker series and as terrifying as the first two. Should be read after Every Dead Thing and Dark Hollow.
when the discovery of a mass grave in maine reveals the grim truth behind the disappearance of a religious community, private detective, charlie parker is drawn into a violent conflict with a group of zealots intent on tracking down a relic that could link them to the slaughter.
John Connolly is a master storyteller and he has outdone himself with "The Killing Kind". DO not pick it up UNLESS you have some major time to spend. The colorful characters will grab you by the throat -- WOW, what a book. Not to be missed.
Pretty decent read but too much of previous books leak into the new storyline. If you ahve read no others of this guy then this is a good start.
When the discovery of a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the grim truth behind the disappearance of a religious community, private detective Charlie Parker is drawn into a violent conflict with a group of zealots intent on tracking down a relic that could link them to the slaughter. Haunted by the ghost of a small boy and tormented by the demonic killer known as Mr. Pudd, Parker is forced to fight for his lover, his friends....and his very soul.
