Charlie Parker returns in a gripping abduction tale of a mother on trial by media
Crime fiction
Author John Connolly. Photo: Ivan Gimenez Costa
It’s hard to believe that this is the 21st book in John Connolly’s hugely successful Charlie Parker series. The books place the hard-boiled private detective genre in a world where forces of the supernatural secretly exist.
The Instruments of Darkness begins with echoes of both Madeleine McCann and the Casey Anthony case in the US.
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