The Wolf in Winter: A Charlie Parker Thriller (12)

Review Strongly recommended for plot, characterization, authenticity . . . horror . . . and humanity. ( Library Journal (starred review) ) Agreat read. ( Booklist ) Memorable . . . it takes readers on a path they truly wont believe, offering diehard evil from the first to the last page . . . Connolly has once again delivered an all-out thrill ride! ( Suspense Magazine ) Connolly leaves us wanting more. ( Florida Times-Union ) I believe that I have already read what is sure to be one of the best books to be published this year: THE WRATH OF ANGELS . . . Read this with the lights on and the doors locked. ( Bookreporter.com ) A great, epic time spent with friends and enemies. ( Mystery People ) Connollys superb fusion of noir and the supernatural is to be savored, and not to be missed. ( My Bookish Ways ) It kept me captivated throughout and wowed me with all its revelations . . . The Wrath of Angels marks itself as a high point of the Charlie Parker series. ( Fantasy Book Critic ) About the Author John Connollyis the author of The Wrath of Angels , The Burning Soul , The Book of Lost Things , and Bad Men , among many others. He is a regular contributor to The Irish Times and lives in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, see his website atJohnConnollyBooks.com,or follow him on Twitter @JConnollyBooks. Formats : EPUB, MOBI New York Times bestselling author John Connolly is a master of the supernatural thriller—"a genre of one" ( Bookreporter )—whose eerie and electrifying Charlie Parker mystery turns a small town in Maine into an unforgettable character that threatens to destroy the brooding private investigator. The isolated community of Prosperous, Maine, has always thrived. While others suffered, the people there have remained fortunate, wealthy, secure, and insular throughout the centuries. Miles to the south, in Portland, a homeless man dies, and the disturbing manner of his death brings Prosperous to the attention of the private investigator Charlie Parker. He is a dangerous man, driven by compassion, rage, and the desire for vengeance. Prosperous and its townsfolk recognize that he poses a threat to their security that runs deeper than any in their long history. But this community has its own way of protecting itself, and its sheltered residents have marked Charlie for death so that Prosperous may survive. Prosperous, and the secret that is buried beneath it... "The next pulse-pounding thriller in John Connolly's internationally bestselling Charlie Parker series. 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. And at the heart of Prosperous lie the ruins of an ancient church, transported stone by stone from England centuries earlier by the founders of the town ... But 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. Prosperous, and the secret that it hides beneath its ruins."-- Provided by publisher Prosperous, and the secret that it hides beneath its ruins . . . 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. And at the heart of Prosperous lie the ruins of an ancient church, transported stone by stone from England centuries earlier by the founders of the town . . . But 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.