The Burning Soul (Charlie Parker, #10)
by:
John Connolly (author)
Randall Haight has a secret: when he was a teenager, he and his friend killed a 14-year-old 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 Randall. He is being tormented by anonymous messages, haunting reminders...
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Randall Haight has a secret: when he was a teenager, he and his friend killed a 14-year-old 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 Randall. 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 14-year-old 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 ...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780340993552 (0340993553)
Publish date: June 21st 2012
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Pages no: 421
Edition language: English
Series: Charlie Parker (#10)
This is what a mystery is supposed to be like! Great characters with layers to them, people keeping secrets and telling lies and of course great clues that the reader can pick up on if they're smart enough. What a book! I'll be back with a proper review once I've had some sleep.
*Rating* 3.0*Genre* Mystery*Completed Review*Although this is a story in the Charlie Parker series, Parker felt, to me, like a periphery character instead of the main character. He really messes a lot of important information and clues and nearly gets himself arrested, again, and loses his PI licens...
I was lamenting to a friend on Friday how annoyed I was coming into the long weekend knowing that the new John Connolly book wouldn’t be out until Tuesday. It annoyed me that it was given two separate release dates, one for Australia, England and Ireland (September 1st) and another for North Americ...
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