The Whisperers: Private Investigator Charlie Parker hunts evil in the ninth book in the globally bestselling series

John Connolly

Jun 2010 · Hachette UK

About this ebook

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

The border between Maine and Canada is porous. Anything can be smuggled across it: drugs, cash, weapons, people.

Now a group of disenchanted former soldiers has begun its own smuggling operation, and what is being moved 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.

But the soldiers' actions 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. If he is to try to defeat them, Parker must form an uneasy alliance with a man he fears more than any other, the killer known as the Collector . . .

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 Whisperers is the ninth book in this globally bestselling series.

Ratings and reviews

Brooding menace.These two words,for me at least,sum up the Charlie Parker series.A slight change in direction using the Iraqi war as a backdrop,this novel delivers the goods yet again. Excellent detail as always and yet another brilliant adversary in the form of Herod to add to the growing list of Charlie's enemies. No spoilers from me and as I'm reading these on sequence l really look forward to the next installment. For any lover of dark thrillers there's no one better in my opinion than John Connolly. I've yet to be disappointed in any of his books and as I decided to read them in sequence from the beginning I've had the pleasure of rereading many of them.

So this is my third time to read this. I love going back over the last few books before starting a new one. Personally, I think a book solely about The Collector wld be an interesting side story to the Charlie Parker series.

Not the best charlie parker novel but still an excellent read. I suggest anyone wanting to read any of these books start at the beggining of the series with "every dead thing".

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.