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Those awaiting more dark and twisted tales of troubled detective Charlie Parker will have to wait until 2025 (and the forthcoming novel The Children of Eve) but in the meantime author John Connolly brings together an anthology of the bizarre and strange and an additional essay in Night and...
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When Renée Ballard’s police ID and badge are stolen while she’s out surfing, it’s just the start of a tsunami of complications that will affect her and her team at the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit. As she tries to pursue answers to that particular problem – with the help of...
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A woman named Colleen Clark is arrested after an investigation into her son’s disappearance uncovers a bloodied blanket in her car. Did she kill infant Henry Clark? Subsequent news reports have started to turn her neighbours against her, her husband has moved out of the home and seems likely...
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Harry Bosch may have left the police, but his life’s mission hasn’t changed. He still wants to see justice done… because, as his mantra goes: ‘everyone counts or nobody counts‘. Working with (or for) Mickey Haller wouldn’t be his first choice, but his half-brother, the ‘Lincoln Lawyer’ has promised...
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With Renée Ballard now heading up a newly-formed cold-case unit – a result of being able to choose her next position (after events in The Dark Hours) – she assembles her team of experts, almost all of them having had police positions at some point but are now private...
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The innate problem with creating an anthology of stories around the Predator race is that the franchise itself has mostly had one story to tell, hunter/hunted, which it has sought to do over and over again to varying degrees of success. The film franchise (that began with the famous...
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When last we ventured into the dark, mysterious lands and outlying territories inhabited by John Connolly’s saviours and miscreants, the tome (The Nameless Ones) was mainly concerned with Louis and Angel. The two characters – killers and fixers with a collective heart of…if not gold then certainly melted copper...
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It’s New Year’s Eve 2020 and as the clock ticks over into a new year, Renee Ballard hopes that 2021 won’t bring any more unpleasant surprises. In the short and long term, she’s likely to be disappointed. She has a raft of cases on her docket, some more official...
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After the events of A Book of Bones, the repercussions of the actions taken by Charlie Parker, Louis and Angel in Europe have finally started to ripple out. The Vuksans – two brothers whose legendary brutality across Eastern Europe and the carnage of the war in the old Yugoslavia...