Paperback: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? - Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
Grievously wounded but unbroken, private investigator Charlie Parker faces the darkest of forces in a case with its roots in the Second World War, and a concentration camp unlike any other.
Recovering from a near-fatal shooting and tormented by memories of a world beyond this one, Parker retreated to the small Maine town of Boreas to recover. There he befriends a woman named Ruth Winter and her young daughter. 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.
A Song of Shadows (2015) is the thirteenth book in the supernatural and hair-raising albeit exceptionally riveting Charlie Parker series. The next and fourteenth book in the series - A Time of Torment - will be out on 7 April 2016 in the UK and in July in the USA.
About the author: John Connolly was born in Dublin in 1968. His debut - Every Dead Thing (1999) - which introduced the character of private detective Charlie Parker, swiftly launched him right into the front rank of thriller writers, and all his subsequent novels have been Sunday Times bestsellers. Books To Die For (2012), a nonfiction anthology, which he edited with Declan Burke, was the winner of the 2013 Agatha, Anthony and Macavity Awards for Best Critical/Biographical Book of the Year. He is the first non-American writer to win the US Shamus award for Every Dead Thing. In 2007 he was awarded the Irish Post Award for Literature.
Rating: 6/5
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