Every Dead Thing

This novel is a classic private eye novel and I love the classic PI’s.

We have the loner tough guy who has limited social skills, though Parker gets by. He works with not just one, but two shady sidekicks. Parker is a recovering alcoholic. He falls in love but pushes the woman away, so it doesn’t last. He has a love/hate relationship with the local authorities. He blurs the lines between legality and criminal behavior in the name of solving the case. All the tropes I’d expect of a PI novel.

Connolly writes poetically. Some of his descriptions jump off… show more.

Supernatural Thrillers: Every Dead Thing by John Connolly is the first novel in Connolly’s Charlie Parker series (it contains Parker’s origin story). If you like your thrillers with a blood-curdling slice of the supernatural, run, don’t walk, to the nearest bookstore and pick up this novel. Haunted by his dead wife and daughter, Parker is an ex-cop turned private detective. And the cases Parker works—Good Lord!—best sleep with the lights on. Though John Connolly’s an Irish lad, his Parker novels take place along the East Coast (Parker lives in Portland, Maine). You’ll realize how literary and poetic Connolly’s prose is… show more.