EVIL TAKES MANY FORMS.

PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR CHARLIE PARKER HUNTS THEM ALL.

'John Connolly is the creator of a unique blend of thriller and horror who receives rave reviews every time' Sunday Telegraph

The Furies: mythological snake-haired goddesses of vengeance, pursuers of those who have committed unavenged crimes. Now, private investigator Charlie Parker is drawn into a world of modern furies in two linked stories.

In The Sisters Strange, the return of the criminal Raum Buker to Portland, Maine brings with it chaos and murder, as an act of theft threatens not only to tear apart his own existence but also that of Raum's former lovers, the enigmatic sisters Dolors and Ambar Strange.

And in The Furies Parker finds himself fighting to protect two more women as the city of Portland shuts down in the face of a global pandemic, but it may be that his clients are more capable of taking care of themselves than anyone could have imagined . . .

From the number one Sunday Times and multi-million-copy bestselling author John Connolly comes two linked stories in one novel and the most compelling and unsettling Charlie Parker case yet.

The Charlie Parker novels can be read and enjoyed in any order. The Furies is the landmark twentieth book in this globally bestselling series.

«Un thriller trepidante.» The Wall Street Journal
«Una gran historia: oscura, inquietante y maravillosamente narrada.» Booklist
Nadie puede escapar al pasado. El detective Charlie Parker no es una excepción, y el pasado lo alcanza de pleno cuando recibe una misteriosa llamada telefónica: han descubierto un cadáver en un oscuro y fétido lago, el Karagol, situado en lo más profundo del sur, en Burdon County, una de las áreas más depauperadas de Arkansas. La noticia lleva a Parker a recordar lo que le ocurrió años atrás, en 1997, cuando llegó a Burdon County siguiendo una pista que podía conducirle al asesino de su mujer y de su hija; obsesionado por vengar lo que le había ocurrido tan recientemente a su familia, sumido en un insuperable dolor, recaló en esa zona, donde no tardó en provocar las suspicacias de todos los vecinos, y por supuesto de la policía; sin embargo, cuando se enteró de que acababa de morir asesinada una joven negra, la vida de Parker dio un giro inesperado. Su conciencia despertó. También sus deseos de justicia. Posiblemente allí nació el Charlie Parker al que todos acabarán admirando… y temiendo: el que mira de frente al mal y no duda en defender las causas perdidas.

«Un thriller trepidante.» The Wall Street Journal

«Una gran historia: oscura, inquietante y maravillosamente narrada... Un libro de lectura obligatoria para los fanáticos de la serie Charlie Parker.» Booklist

«Inteligente y sutil.» Publishers Weekly

«Una novela de ritmo minuciosamente estudiado que es un misterio apasionante y, al mismo tiempo, una ponderada meditación sobre el dolor.» The Irish Times

«Un brillante thriller en el que cobra un especial sentido la lucha entre el bien y el mal. … A quien le gusten las hazañas de Charlie Parker, ese ex policía de Nueva York convertido en investigador privado, le encantará esta precuela.» Daily Mail

All hardbacks in the first print run will be signed by the author.

The story of genre fiction - horror, romantic fiction, science fiction, crime writing, and more - is also the story of Irish fiction. Irish writers have given the world Lemuel Gulliver, Dracula, and the world of Narnia. They have produced pioneering tales of detection, terrifying ghost stories and ground-breaking women's popular fiction. Now, for the first time, John Connolly's one volume presents the history of Irish genre writing and uses it to explore how we think about fiction itself.

Deeply researched, and passionately argued, SHADOW VOICES takes the lives of more than sixty writers - by turns tragic, amusing, and adventurous, but always extraordinary - and sets them alongside the stories they have written, to create a new way of looking at genre and literature, both Irish and beyond. Here are vampires and monsters, murderers and cannibals. Here are female criminal masterminds and dogged detectives, star-crossed lovers and vengeful spouses.

Here are the SHADOW VOICES.

An extraordinary recreation of one of the most enduring and beloved partnerships in cinema history: Laurel & Hardy.

Winner of the 2017 Ryan Tubridy Show Listener's Choice Award at the Irish Book Awards.

John Connolly recreates the golden age of Hollywood for an intensely compassionate study of the tension between commercial demands and artistic integrity and the human frailties behind even the greatest of artists.

An extraordinary reimagining of the life of one of the greatest screen comedians the world has ever known: a man who knew both adoration and humiliation; who loved, and was loved in turn; who betrayed, and was betrayed; who never sought to cause pain to others, yet left a trail of affairs and broken marriages in his wake . . .

And whose life was ultimately defined by one relationship of such tenderness and devotion that only death could sever it: his partnership with the man he knew as Babe.

he is Stan Laurel.
But he did not really exist. Stan Laurel was a fiction.

With he, John Connolly recreates the golden age of Hollywood for an intensely compassionate study of the tension between commercial demands and artistic integrity, the human frailties behind even the greatest of artists, and one of the most enduring and beloved partnerships in cinema history: Laurel & Hardy.