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The Woman in the Woods by John Connolly

adventurous dark mysterious tense

5.0

Connolly's tendency to introduce most of his female characters with an assessment of their attractiveness particularly annoyed me in this one when Parker meets a woman with long grey hair and is somewhat repulsed by it. I know he's got an assholish streak, but come on. It's a habit that sticks out like a sore thumb because he does, at least, have fully rounded female characters, and more than one! in his books now. This one's about a hunt for a missing baby after a woman's body is foud... somewhere, can't remember where, you'll work it out. Evil stalks America kilin and torturin' and generally being mean and evil - can Parker save the day? 

A Game of Ghosts by John Connolly

adventurous dark mysterious tense

5.0

What the feck was this one even about? Oh yeah, missing private detective, FBI guy gets Parker and co to go looking, ghosts in the trees and people murdering for spooky nasty reasons, what's that all about then, mate? 

A Time of Torment by John Connolly

adventurous dark mysterious tense

5.0

Bad things happen to good people. Charlie Parker helps kick the everloving shite out of those responsible. Ghosties go boo. D'end. 

A Song of Shadows by John Connolly

adventurous dark mysterious tense

5.0

Parker, mildly inconvenienced after a couple of shotgun blasts to the body and brain, recuperates by the sea and whiles away his time hunting nazis. It's okay, though, the Nazis are old and no match for invalid Parker. There are, however, neo-Nazis and a weird hitman. Sure what harm. 

The Wolf in Winter by John Connolly

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense

5.0

I'm going through these so fast and at such volume I'm not keeping up with reviews and need to refer to a chart to keep track. In this one the bad guy is prosperity, actualised in the form of a town named Prosperity. Most Parker novels have at least one small Maine town that is economically and socially on its deathbed, so when one turns up that's doing quite well you know evil must be afoot, and where evil foots, Parker thwarts! 

The Wrath of Angels by John Connolly

adventurous dark mysterious tense

5.0

Plane crash and stuff. Quite good.

The Burning Soul by John Connolly

adventurous dark mysterious tense

5.0

What's this one? Oh wow they're all starting to blur together a bit. This one has a missing girl, gangsters, and a man who murdered a girl when he was 14 who hires Parker, via his lawyer, to find out who's sending him nasty photos. This audio had two readers which mixes things up a bit. 

The Whisperers by John Connolly

adventurous dark mysterious tense

5.0

Why yes, yes I am spending Covid with my ears adorned with various listening devices downloading audio novels straight to my brain almost every hour of the day, thanks for asking. It's great because you can do other stuff at the same time. I mean, theoretically. This is the one with vets and PTSD and stolen artifacts.

The Lovers by John Connolly

adventurous dark mysterious tense

5.0

Back to the Charlie Parker mythology as he sets out to unravel his origins and the reasons for his father's murderous actions - set up way back in the first book, but also completely entwined with the supernatural stuff, so either that's some nifty footwork to make everything fit or pretty decent long-term planning. We even have a recurring non-love-interest man-pain generating female character in Parker's lawyer who hasn't ended up murdered yet, so that's a development. Still a throroughly testosteroney series, though. 

Violenzia by Richard Sala

adventurous dark funny mysterious

5.0

Girl with two guns shoots lots of grotesquely evil people.