The Burning Soul: Private Investigator Charlie Parker hunts evil in the tenth book in the globally bestselling series

· Hachette UK
4.5
22 reviews
Ebook
432
Pages

About this ebook

EVIL TAKES MANY FORMS.
PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR CHARLIE PARKER HUNTS THEM ALL.

'Another creepy thriller from a modern master' Daily Mirror

When Randall Haight was a teenager, he and his friend killed a girl. Randall did his time and built a new life in the small Maine town of Pastor's Bay, but somebody has discovered the truth about his past. He is being tormented by anonymous messages, haunting reminders of his past crime, and he wants private detective Charlie Parker to make it stop.

But another teenage girl has gone missing, this time from Pastor's Bay, and the missing girl's family has its own secrets to protect. Now Parker must unravel a web of deceit involving the police, the FBI, a doomed mobster named Tommy Morris, and Randall Haight himself.

Because Randall Haight is telling lies . . .

From the number one Sunday Times and multi-million-copy bestselling author John Connolly comes the most compelling and unsettling Charlie Parker thriller yet.

The Charlie Parker novels can be read and enjoyed in any order. The Burning Soul is the tenth book in this globally bestselling series.

Ratings and reviews

4.5
22 reviews
A Google user
October 25, 2012
Still a worthy read but starting to feel a little upset with the length of the recent books, no real story progression at the moment for Charlie.
John H
May 4, 2019
This one is very good.

About the author

John Connolly is author of the Charlie Parker mysteries, The Book of Lost Things, the Samuel Johnson novels for young adults and, with his partner, Jennifer Ridyard, the co-author of the Chronicles of the Invaders. John Connolly's debut - EVERY DEAD THING - introduced the character of Private Investigator Charlie Parker, and swiftly launched him right into the front rank of thriller writers. All his subsequent novels have been Sunday Times bestsellers.

In 2007 he was awarded the Irish Post Award for Literature. He was the first non-American writer to win the US Shamus award and the first Irish writer to win an Edgar award. BOOKS TO DIE FOR, which he edited with Declan Burke, was the winner of the 2013 Anthony, Agatha and Macavity awards for Best Non-Fiction work.

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