The Burning Soul: A Charlie Parker Thriller
Sep 2011 · Charlie Parker Book 10 · Simon and Schuster
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What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?
“There are some truths so terrible that they should not be spoken aloud, so appalling that even to acknowledge them is to risk sacrificing a crucial part of one’s humanity, to exist in a colder, crueler world than before.”
Randall Haight has a secret: He is a convicted murderer, a man with the blood of a young girl on his hands. He has built a new life for himself in the small Maine town of Pastor’s Bay, but someone has discovered the truth about him. He is being tormented by anonymously sent reminders of his crime. He wants private detective Charlie Parker to make them go away.
But another girl has gone missing, this time from Pastor’s Bay itself, and her family has its own secrets to protect. Now, in a town built on blood and shadowed by old ghosts, Parker must unravel a twisted history of violence and deceit involving the police and the FBI, a doomed mobster and his enemies, and Randall Haight himself.
Because Randall is telling lies. . . .
“There are some truths so terrible that they should not be spoken aloud, so appalling that even to acknowledge them is to risk sacrificing a crucial part of one’s humanity, to exist in a colder, crueler world than before.”
Randall Haight has a secret: He is a convicted murderer, a man with the blood of a young girl on his hands. He has built a new life for himself in the small Maine town of Pastor’s Bay, but someone has discovered the truth about him. He is being tormented by anonymously sent reminders of his crime. He wants private detective Charlie Parker to make them go away.
But another girl has gone missing, this time from Pastor’s Bay itself, and her family has its own secrets to protect. Now, in a town built on blood and shadowed by old ghosts, Parker must unravel a twisted history of violence and deceit involving the police and the FBI, a doomed mobster and his enemies, and Randall Haight himself.
Because Randall is telling lies. . . .
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4.1
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November 8, 2011
After serving eighteen years in prison, he's released and given a new identity. Now, living in Maine, another girl goes missing and someone is sending him photos of where he kiled the girl as a teenager.
He doesn't want to go to the authorities because he might be the scapegoat for the girl who is missing now. He hires PI Charlie Parker to stop the harassment.
Charlie doesn't want to take the case because he had lost a child himself, but when it's pointed out tha the person harassing Haight might be the kidnapper of the girl who is missing, he accepts.
Connolly writes in a literary style and there are a number of parallel story lines that come together for a tidy conclusion with some interesting twists and surprises that add to the reader's enjoyment.
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January 27, 2014
Read the entire series
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Jezzie McClellan
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January 22, 2014
That is a good book
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About the author
John Connolly is the author of the #1 internationally bestselling Charlie Parker thrillers series, The Book of Lost Things and its sequel The Land of Lost Things, 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 X @JConnollyBooks.
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