The Wolf in Winter: Private Investigator Charlie Parker hunts evil in the twelfth book in the globally bestselling series

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EVIL TAKES MANY FORMS.

PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR CHARLIE PARKER HUNTS THEM ALL.

'The finest crime series currently in existence' Independent on Sunday

His client is dead. But Charlie Parker will not rest . . .

The community of Prosperous, Maine, has always thrived when others have suffered. Its inhabitants are wealthy, its children's future secure. It shuns outsiders. It guards its own.

The death of a homeless man and the disappearance of his daughter draw the haunted, lethal private investigator Charlie Parker to Prosperous. Parker is a dangerous man, driven by compassion, by rage, and by the desire for vengeance. In him the town and its protectors sense a threat graver than any they have faced in their long history, and in the comfortable, sheltered inhabitants of a small Maine town, Parker will encounter his most vicious opponents yet.

Charlie Parker has been marked to die so that Prosperous may survive.

From the number one Sunday Times and multi-million-copy bestselling author John Connolly comes the most compelling and unsettling Charlie Parker thriller yet.

The Charlie Parker novels can be read and enjoyed in any order. The Wolf in Winter is the twelfth book in this globally bestselling series.

Reviews

Superb . . . this thriller underlines just how fine a writer Connolly has become - Daily Mail

Contains Connolly's usual brilliance with plot, dialogue, setting, humour and writing that is at times poetic - Independent on Sunday

[What] is so impressive [is] the fact that he's able to work poetic language into the thriller format . . . You may think at times you are reading a literary novel but then Connolly will remind you he's just as adept at the violent strategies of the thriller. Either way you will be left shaken by the experience. - Daily Express

John Connolly never fails to please and with this latest in the long-running Charlie Parker he has delivered yet another superb thriller. With THE WOLF IN WINTER, he gives us a slice of the old world in the new world with one of the creepiest churches you will ever read about. - crimesquad

THE WOLF IN WINTER is a brilliant performance from one of our finest writers. - Irish Times

John Connolly goes from strength to strength and I for one cannot wait to read the next instalment. Dark, moody and gripping, THE WOLF IN WINTER is not to be missed. One more thing - that ending - Wow! - Milo s Rambles

Connolly's writing is poetic, mystical - and almost impossible to put down - Woman & Home

Connolly's writing flows beautifully . . . part of the novel's effect is created by having some very dark, often violent, moments described in such poetic language - it adds to the unease . . . Connolly is back on top - if you've yet to discover him it's a good time to start. - Killing Time

Author Bio

John Connolly is author of the Charlie Parker mysteries, The Book of Lost Things, the Samuel Johnson novels for young adults and, with his partner, Jennifer Ridyard, the co-author of the Chronicles of the Invaders. John Connolly's debut - EVERY DEAD THING - introduced the character of Private Investigator Charlie Parker, and swiftly launched him right into the front rank of thriller writers. All his subsequent novels have been Sunday Times bestsellers.

In 2007 he was awarded the Irish Post Award for Literature. He was the first non-American writer to win the US Shamus award and the first Irish writer to win an Edgar award. BOOKS TO DIE FOR, which he edited with Declan Burke, was the winner of the 2013 Anthony, Agatha and Macavity awards for Best Non-Fiction work.