Series
Charlie Parker
John Connolly · 21 novels · 1 novella · 1999–2024
John Connolly's long-running crime series follows Charlie Parker, a former New York police detective turned private investigator in Maine, whose cases repeatedly brush against the genuinely supernatural alongside conventional violence and grief. Every Dead Thing (1999) opens with Parker hunting his own wife and daughter's killer, establishing the series' recurring blend of hardboiled procedural and horror; later novels widen into recurring antagonists and a broader mythology of evil working through human agents. Now well over twenty books, the series has grown Parker's two associates, Louis and Angel, into major recurring characters.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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Stats
By decade
- 1990s1
- 2000s8
- 2010s9
- 2020s4
Shape
21 novels · 1 novella
1 author
reads like:mystery & detectivemurder investigationnorth americacontemporarydarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book22 of 22 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Woman in the Woodsdarkest · calmest
- The Reapersbrightest · most intense