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Every Dead Thing

Коннолли Джон

Every Dead Thing

Коннолли Джон
Every Dead Thing

“A truly harrowing murder plot… An ambitious foray…deep into Hannibal Lecter territory… The extravagantly gifted Connolly, living up to his title, is never too busy for another flashback to Bird’s violent past en route to his final confrontation with the Traveling Man.” – Kirkus Reviews

“For me, the best thing about an author’s first novel is its untarnished honesty. John Connolly’s EVERY DEAD THING has that reckless intensity. Set against the gritty canvas of a serial killer loose in New York City, John Connolly’s writing is as lilting and refreshing and as tempestuous as an Irish rainstorm. Warning: Don’t start this book unless you have time to finish it.” – Paul Lindsay, former FBI agent and author of Witness to the Truth

“Classic American crime fiction; it’s hard to believe that John Connolly was born and raised on the Emerald Isle.” – amazon.com

“[A] darkly ingenious debut novel… The New Orleanssequence of the novel sing[s]… The rural Virginia town is petty, bitter perfection: no mean feat for a native Dubliner. The prose rings of ’40s L.A. noir, à la Chandler and Hammett, but the grisly deaths, poetic cops, and psychic episodes set this tale apart.” – Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“An ambitious, moral, disturbing tale with a stunning climax… In many ways its terror quotient exceeds that of Thomas Harris’ great work.” – The Times (London)

“Connolly writes with confidence, a swaggering self-assurance that is almost breathtaking in a first novel.” – Dublin Evening Herald (Ireland)

“A debut novel of stunning complexity… The tension starts on the first page and continues right through the last, concluding in a dramatic and ambiguous way that could disturb readers’ thoughts for days. A work of fiction that stays with you long after the book is closed is a rare and beautiful thing. This one goes right up there on the year’s list of the best.” – St. Petersburg Times (FL)

“A nonstop, action-packed tale that also has a warm side where love and loyalty (not DNA) make a person human.” – Barnesandnoble.com

“Shades of The Silence of the Lambs here-but this debut book by Dubliner Connolly also has echoes of James Crumley, Patricia Cornwell, and Lawrence Block… A terrifying finale… Connolly manages to keep the tension simmering right to the very end.” – Express Star (UK)

“Absolutely spellbinding… This is not a book for the timid.” – Naples Daily News (FL)

“A big, meaty, often superbly written novel-astonishing, for a first-time author, in its scope and apparent veracity… A book of sudden, horrifying violence and no-holds-barred explicit scene-of-the-crime detail… A painstakingly researched crime novel, impressive both in terms of its driven central character [and] its scrupulously evoked geography… Impressive, too, is the superior, topflight prose and sheer momentum of the plot.” – Tangled Web (UK)

“[An] exciting, scary, and darkly humorous story that deserves to be a success.” – Irish News

“A highly intelligent and exciting novel, with almost enough action and story for two books. The grim and grisly events are emotionally balanced by the book’s dark humor and Bird’s vulnerability.” – Library Journal

“[A] stunning debut… Painstaking research, superb characterization, and an ability to tell a story that’s chilling and thought-provoking make this a terrific thriller.” – The Mirror (UK)

“Brilliant… While Thomas Harris’ Hannibal is the year’s most anticipated thriller, John Connolly’s EVERY DEAD THING might just be the best… A real adrenaline rush… Simply too good to be missed-or to put down.” – The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)

El camino blanco

Коннолли Джон

El camino blanco

Коннолли Джон
El camino blanco

En Carolina del Sur, un joven negro se enfrenta a la pena de muerte acusado de haber violado y asesinado a Marianne Larousse, hija de uno de los hombres más ricos del estado. El caso, que nadie quiere investigar, hunde sus raíces en un mal que se remonta a un pasado remoto, el tipo de misterio que se ha convertido en la especialidad del detective Charlie Parker. Éste ignora que está a punto de sumergirse en una auténtica pesadilla y de introducirse en un escenario teñido de sangre en el que se mezclan el espectro asesino de una mujer encapuchada, un coche negro que espera a un pasajero que nunca llega, y la complicidad tanto de amigos como de enemigos en los sucesos que rodean la muerte de Marianne Larousse. Más que una investigación, es un descenso a los abismos, un enfrentamiento con las fuerzas oscuras que amenazan todo aquello que Parker ama.

Paralelamente, en la celda de una prisión, el fanático predicador Faulkner trama una venganza contra Charlie Parker, y para ello utilizará a los mismos hombres a los que el detective está siguiendo, y a una extraña y contrahecha criatura que guarda sus secretos enterrados en la orilla de un río: Cyrus Nairn.

Todas estas figuras deberán enfrentarse a su cruento destino final en los pantanos del sur y los bosques del norte, escenarios muy alejados entre sí pero unidos por un frágil hilo: el lugar donde convergen los caminos de los muertos y de los vivos.

The Reapers

Коннолли Джон

The Reapers

Коннолли Джон
The Reapers

A brilliantly chilling novel by New York Times bestselling author John Connolly about a chain of killings, linked obscurely by great distances and the passage of years, and the settling of their blood-debts – past, present, and future.

As a small boy, Louis witnesses an unspeakable crime that takes the life of a member of his small, southern community. He grows up and moves on, but he is forever changed by the cruel and brutal nature of the act. It lights a fire deep within him that burns white and cold, a quiet flame just waiting to ignite. Now, years later, the sins of his life are reaching into his present, bringing with them the buried secrets and half-forgotten acts of his past.

Someone is hunting him, targeting his home, his businesses, and his partner, Angel. The instrument of revenge is Bliss, a killer of killers, the most feared of assassins. Bliss is a Reaper, a lethal tool to be applied toward the ultimate end, but he is also a man with a personal vendetta.

Hardened by their pasts, Louis and Angel decide to strike back. While they form a camaraderie that brings them solace, it offers them no shelter from the fate that stalks them. When they mysteriously disappear, their friends are forced to band together to find them. They are led by private detective Charlie Parker, a killer himself, a Reaper in waiting.

Connolly's triumphant prose and unerring rendering of his tortured characters mesmerize and chill. He creates a world where everyone is corrupt, murderers go unpunished, but betrayals are always avenged. Yet another masterpiece from a proven talent, The Reapers will terrify and transfix.

The Whisperers

Коннолли Джон

The Whisperers

Коннолли Джон
The Whisperers

''-Oh, little one,' he whispered, as he gently stroked her cheek, the first time he had touched her in fifteen years. '-What have they done to you? What have they done to us all?' ' In his latest dark and chilling Charlie Parker thriller, New York Times bestselling author John Connolly takes us to the border between Maine and Canada. It is there, in the vast and porous Great North Woods, that a dangerous smuggling operation is taking place, run by a group of disenchanted former soldiers, newly returned from Iraq. Illicit goods – drugs, cash, weapons, even people – are changing hands. And something else has changed hands. Something ancient and powerful and evil.The authorities suspect something is amiss, but what they can't know is that it is infinitely stranger and more terrifying than anyone can imagine. Anyone, that is, except private detective Charlie Parker, who has his own intimate knowledge of the darkness in men's hearts. As the smugglers begin to die one after another in apparent suicides, Parker is called in to stop the bloodletting. The soldiers' actions and the objects they have smuggled have attracted the attention of the reclusive Herod, a man with a taste for the strange. And where Herod goes, so too does the shadowy figure that he calls the Captain. To defeat them, Parker must form an uneasy alliance with a man he fears more than any other, the killer known as the Collector…

Los amantes

Коннолли Джон

Los amantes

Коннолли Джон
Los amantes

Tusquets nos trae la nueva aventura de Charlie Parker, el detective imán para las desgracias, sobre todo las ajenas, que consigue, con cada libro, nuevos seguidores para su creador, el irlandés John Connolly.

Ya hemos hablado en Lecturalia de los libros anteriores de Parker, así que queda claro que esperamos, sobre todo yo, como agua de mayo cada nueva historia. Connolly ha alcanzado un equilibrio magistral entre el terror y la novela negra, con unos personajes principales de primer orden y unos secundarios más que bien definidos.

Si en la anterior entrega, Los hombres de la guadaña, todo el protagonismo era cedido a Louis y a Angel, tratando de cerrar historias anteriores al mismo tiempo que se convertía en el menos oscuro de sus libros, Connolly retoma con Los amantes la historia de Parker y su peculiar situación personal en la que, todo hay que decirlo, no está en su mejor momento, con la licencia de detective retirada, trabajando en un bar y alejado de lo que le queda de familia.

Los amantes nos lleva a la investigación por parte del detective de la historia de su propio padre, el cual, tras asesinar a una joven pareja, acabó suicidándose en su propia casa. A medida que revuelve el pasado de su padre toda la trama se complica y aparecen detalles que podrían estar conectados con quién es él en realidad y qué sucede a su alrededor, incluyendo el descubrimiento tanto de nuevos enemigos como de protectores en las sombras.

Impresionante la aparición de entidades que parecían haber abandonado la serie como la mujer y la hija de Parker, que dan al libro sus mejores momentos de terror, logrando crear la atmósfera oscura que mejor define estas novelas. Lástima que sean apenas unos momentos, la verdad.

En general el libro deja buenas sensaciones, pero parece más que Connolly ha decidido contarnos pequeñas perlas aclaratorias, definiendo bien el camino que quiere tomar más adelante en la narración. En ese sentido es muy parecido a Los hombres de la guadaña: la preparación y desarrollo se enfrentan a un final brusco, informativo y que deja con ganas de más. En ese sentido es inferior a libros anteriores como El ángel negro, mucho más completo en todos los sentidos. ¿Es esa la idea de Connolly? Lo cierto es que está explicando el mundo y sus personajes con detalle, posicionando las figuras para comenzar a jugar la partida final.

Los amantes es un libro cuyo atractivo estriba en las respuestas que da y las preguntas que plantea, necesario para los seguidores de Charlie Parker pero desaconsejable para iniciarse en la serie con él.