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The Killing Kind

A Charlie Parker Thriller
Pages
400
Published
2001
Language
English

Synopsis

A dark fraternity. A web of conceit. Charlie Parker is hired to investigate the apparent suicide of a former flame, Grace Peltier. A graduate student, Grace had been writing a damning thesis on religious cults. Elsewhere, an abortion doctor is found, nested in a cocoon of brown recluse and black widow spiders. And, a world away but somehow connected, a mass grace is uncovered . . . As these events fatefully converge, Parker is being followed. Someone is creeping into his world and infesting it with darkness. Someone whose venom seeps into communities and weaves destruction. Someone who goes by the name of Mr. Pudd.

About the author

J
John Connolly

John Connolly is an Irish writer, born in Dublin on 31 May 1968. He studied English at Trinity College Dublin and journalism at Dublin City University, and worked as a freelance journalist for The Irish Times before turning to fiction. He is best known for the Charlie Parker series of supernatural-tinged crime novels, which began with Every Dead Thing (1999). His other books include the standalone fantasy The Book of Lost Things (2006), the Samuel Johnson young-adult trilogy, the Chronicles of t...

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