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Every Dead Thing

By: John Connolly
Narrated by: Jeff Harding
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Tortured and brilliant private detective Charlie Parker stars in this thriller by New York Times bestselling author John Connolly.

Former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker is on the verge of madness. Tortured by the unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter, he is a man consumed by guilt, regret, and the desire for revenge. When his former partner asks him to track down a missing girl, Parker finds himself drawn into a world beyond his imagining: a world where thirty-year-old killings remain shrouded in fear and lies, a world where the ghosts of the dead torment the living, a world haunted by the murderer responsible for the deaths in his family—a serial killer who uses the human body to create works of art and takes faces as his prize. But the search awakens buried instincts in Parker: instincts for survival, for compassion, for love, and, ultimately, for killing.

Aided by a beautiful young psychologist and a pair of bickering career criminals, Parker becomes the bait in a trap set in the humid bayous of Louisiana, a trap that threatens the lives of everyone in its reach. Driven by visions of the dead and the voice of an old black psychic who met a terrible end, Parker must seek a final, brutal confrontation with a murderer who has moved beyond all notions of humanity, who has set out to create a hell on earth: the serial killer known only as the Traveling Man.

In the tradition of classic American detective fiction, Every Dead Thing is a tense, richly plotted thriller, filled with memorable characters and gripping action. It is also a profoundly moving novel, concerned with the nature of loyalty, love, and forgiveness. Lyrical and terrifying, it is an ambitious debut, triumphantly realized. Crime Murder Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Haunted Scary Fiction Emotionally Gripping Exciting Detective
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Complex Plot • Suspenseful Thriller • Great Voice • Supernatural Elements • Rich Writing • Intriguing Mystery

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I'm intrigued by this series - I started on a future book and then returned to the first. But,oh my word, it just hurts to hear the botched pronunciation of regional words. For instance, PONCH- uh-train. MET-air-ee CHA-fa-LIE-ya and the boat, argh,the boat is a PEE-row. It's a boat not a Polish food. l will avoid this narrator on the future.

Could you not research your pronunciations

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I enjoyed this book, I’ll say that 1st. The story at times was hard to follow, and the author would shift gears leaving you wondering where the story was going. Epic ending to the book very creepy and suspenseful.
My biggest gripe though was with the reader of the book. The story spends a lot of time in Louisiana, as a southerner it really annoys me when somebody’s reading a book and I don’t know how to pronounce terms like “Slough” or “
Lake Pontchartrain” there were many others but those were the two biggest and it’s like fingernails on a chalkboard to me I mean you should’ve researched how to pronounce these terms.

Jumpy story / mispronounced words

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Very detailed, almost too much for me. Great reader, if you are a fan of Criminal Minds, you’ll find this a good read.

Would be a “page turner “ if I were reading!

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The book was very detailed and well written, but to dark for me. The reading of it would have been bettervserved with some one knowing the cajun dialect. It hurts me to listen to someone having problems pronouncing a boat name such as a pero, written as it sounds.

Dark for my liking

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Really like the book, but it’s really two separate books. Very gory but fun, never quite figured out what was going on during the whole book and I’m usually pretty good at that. Still it’s a fun read if you like this sort of thing.

Gory but good.

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