A game of ghosts / John Connolly.

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Connolly, John, 1968- author.

ISBN:

9781501171895

Edition:

First Emily Bestler books/Atria Books hardcover edition.

Format:

Books

Physical Description:

452 pages ; 24 cm.

Abstract:

It is deep winter and the darkness is unending. A private detective named Jaycob Eklund has vanished and Charlie Parker is assigned to track him down. Parker's employer, Edgar Ross, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has his own reasons for wanting Eklund found.

Subject Term:

Parker, Charlie "Bird" (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Private investigators -- Fiction.

Missing persons -- Investigation -- Fiction.

FICTION / Thrillers.

FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General.

FICTION / Literary.

Missing persons -- Investigation. (OCoLC)fst01023707

Parker, Charlie "Bird" (Fictitious character) (OCoLC)fst01053642

Private investigators. (OCoLC)fst01077503

SUSPENSE.

Series:

The Charlie Parker stories

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Summary

"An epic supernatural suspense that will forever reset your standards for summer thrillers. From secret realms and horrific homicides to hauntings and criminal empires, there isn't a single dull sentence found in the pages of A Game of Ghosts --and you'll love it." -- Redbook : 10 Books You Have to Read This Summer

Books Every Dad Will Love This Father's Day--PopSugar

Internationally bestselling author John Connolly returns with another "superb fusion of noir and the supernatural" (My Bookish Ways) in this latest thriller in his gripping Charlie Parker series.

It is deep winter and the darkness is unending. A private detective named Jaycob Eklund has vanished and Charlie Parker is assigned to track him down. Parker's employer, Edgar Ross, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has his own reasons for wanting Eklund found. Eklund is no ordinary investigator--he is obsessively tracking a series of homicides and disappearances, each linked to reports of hauntings. Now Parker is drawn into Eklund's world: a realm in which the monstrous Mother rules a crumbling criminal empire, in which men strike bargains with angels, and in which the innocent and guilty alike are pawns in a game of ghosts...

Author Notes

John Connolly is the author of the Charlie Parker series of thrillers, the supernatural collection Nocturnes , the Samuel Johnson Trilogy for younger readers, and (with Jennifer Ridyard) the Chronicles of the Invaders series. He lives in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, see his website at JohnConnollyBooks.com, or follow him on Twitter @JConnollyBooks.

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Connolly smoothly integrates moments of humor into the terrifying plot of his fine 15th supernatural thriller featuring Maine PI Charlie Parker (after 2016's A Time of Torment). Parker partners with a shadowy FBI agent, Edgar Ross, to locate "individuals who had made a pact, either knowingly or not, with servants of an old evil." The nature of this pact forms an ominous backdrop to the main action: Parker becomes suspicious when Ross asks him to track down a fellow Maine gumshoe, Jaycob Eklund, who went missing five days earlier. Like Parker, Eklund was an occasional consultant for the FBI. Though Parker is convinced that Ross is lying about the work Eklund was doing, he agrees to look for the PI. On top of all that, he's threatened with the loss of custody of his grade-school-age daughter, Sam, after she survived an abduction ordeal. That plot line complements, rather than distracts from, the fraught search for Eklund. Agent: Darley Anderson, Darley Anderson Literary (U.K.). (July) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.