The Instruments of Darkness: A Thriller
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John Connolly. (2024). The Instruments of Darkness: A Thriller. Atria/Emily Bestler Books.

John Connolly. 2024. The Instruments of Darkness: A Thriller. Atria/Emily Bestler Books.

John Connolly, The Instruments of Darkness: A Thriller. Atria/Emily Bestler Books, 2024.

John Connolly. The Instruments of Darkness: A Thriller. Atria/Emily Bestler Books, 2024.

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   • bioText: John Connolly is the author of the #1 internationally bestselling Charlie Parker thrillers series, The Book of Lost Things and its sequel The Land of Lost Things, the Samuel Johnson Trilogy for younger readers, and (with Jennifer Ridyard) the Chronicles of the Invaders series. He lives in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, see his website at JohnConnollyBooks.com, or follow him on Twitter @JConnollyBooks.
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From the international and instant New York Times bestselling author John Connolly, the beloved and brilliant Charlie Parker series returns with a heart-wrenching crime only one man can solve.
In Maine, Colleen Clark stands accused of the worst crime a mother can commit: the abduction and possible murder of her child. Everyone—ambitious politicians in an election season, hardened police, ordinary folk—has an opinion on the case, and most believe she is guilty.

But most is not all. Defending Colleen is the lawyer Moxie Castin, and working alongside him is the private investigator Charlie Parker, who senses the tale has another twist, one involving a husband too eager to accept his wife's guilt, a group of fascists arming for war, a disgraced psychic seeking redemption, and an old, twisted house deep in the Maine woods, a house that should never have been built.

A house, and what dwells beneath.

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     Starred review from March 25, 2024
     In bestseller Connolly’s rattling latest case for Charlie Parker (after The Furies), the Maine PI wrestles with potentially paranormal forces as he tries to determine if a young mother killed her own child. Charlie’s friend, attorney Moxie Castin, has recently taken on the case of Colleen Clark, whose two-year-old son, Henry, vanished from his bed in the middle of the night. After Colleen’s husband suggested to the police that she might have abducted Henry, authorities found a blanket soaked with the boy’s blood hidden in her car. Moxie retains Charlie to help ferret out the truth and, after interviewing Colleen at length, he teams up with psychic Sabine Drew, who contacted police after she heard a boy’s cries from beyond the grave. Together and apart, the detective and the psychic explore multiple leads, including one that points to the woman Colleen’s husband was sleeping with. Meanwhile, sections describing a supernatural force emanating from a house deep within the Maine woods hint that something otherworldly might be interfering with the case—and with the operations of a white nationalist militia called the Stonehurst Foundation, whose members are ramping up for violence in Portland. It’s a lot of plates to spin, but Connolly pulls the whole thing off without a hitch. More than 20 years since it launched, this series continues to soar. Agent: Darley Anderson, Darley Anderson Literary.

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     April 1, 2024
     Can the Charlie Parker series really have reached the quarter-century mark? Every Dead Thing appeared in 1999, and frankly it seems almost impossible, given the situations Charlie has found himself in, that he could have survived this long. And yet here's book number 21, which happens to be one of the best in the series. A woman is accused of murdering her young son. She didn't do it, she says, and her lawyer, the flamboyant Moxie Castin, tends to believe her. So does Charlie, who's been hired by Moxie to investigate the people involved (the accused mother, her estranged husband, a woman with whom the husband had a brief affair). The deeper Charlie digs, the stranger and more unsettling it gets. Connolly is a first-rate storyteller, and the Parker novels have always been excellent, but there's something different about this one. The darkness that permeates the series evolves, as though Connolly is conjuring up an evil we've not seen before. This one will leave readers breathless and shaken--which is, after all, just what the author's fans expect.

     COPYRIGHT(2024) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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In Maine, Colleen Clark stands accused of the worst crime a mother can commit: the abduction and possible murder of her child. Everyone—ambitious politicians in an election season, hardened police, ordinary folk—has an opinion on the case, and most believe she is guilty.

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