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Every dead thing

by John Connolly · 1999

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John Connolly superbly taps into the tortured mind and gritty world of former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker, tormented by the brutal, unsolved murders of his wife and young daughter. Driven by visions of the dead, Parker tracks a serial killer from New York City to the American South, and finds his buried instincts -- for love, survival, and, ultimately, for killing -- awakening as he confronts a monster beyond imagining...

Private investigatorsSerial murderersSerial murdersEx-police officersRevengeFictionMissing personsCharlie ""Bird"" Parker (Fictitious character)Parkerm Charlie ""Bird"" (Fictitious character)Charlie "Bird" Parker (Fictitious character)New york (n.y.), fictionVirginia, fiction