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by John Connolly (Author)
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  • Paperback: 496 pages
  • Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks; New Ed edition (11 Oct 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0340729007
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340729007
  • Product Dimensions: 17.9 x 11.1 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 46,167 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Recent years have seen a flurry of horror writers crossing over to the mystery genre--Peter Straub, Dan Simmons and Kristin Kathryn Rusch are three--but little movement has occurred in the opposite direction. Mysteries are where the commercial action is. When John Connolly, an Irish journalist, burst upon the scene in Great Britain in 1999 with the bestselling Every Dead Thing (it later won the Shamus award for Best First Private Eye Novel when published in the States), it would not have been unfair to describe what he was offering as "horror". However, "shock noir" is probably a better way of describing such a grab-you-by-the-eyelashes thriller, with its high body count and inventively grisly methods of dispatching hapless victims.

Connolly--who seems unconcernedly to be trespassing on Stephen King territory in Dark Hollow, with its Maine setting and echoes of background atrocities--actually brings to mind a slightly different hybridisation of horror and mystery: you might say it's Wilkie Collins re-tooled by James Ellroy. Lurking in his pages is more than a faint whiff of the Victorian triple-decker, with all its gothic complexities, while, at the same time, punctuating the plot are grotesque and excessive acts of sadism of a wholly modern sort that will cause some readers indignantly to close the book.

The trouble is, by doing that they miss a richly ripe, closely textured tale. Connolly's series character, ex-NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker, is a man with a lot of pain to surmount--his wife and child were murdered in Every Dead Thing--but he's also a dogged knight errant attuned to the pain felt by others. In Dark Hollow, his quest for the truth is a twisty one, but he stays the course, and so should you. --Otto Penzler, Amazon.com



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To say that John Connolly enjoyed a remarkable success with his first book,Every Dead Thing, is to understate the case. This first thriller featuring Detective "Bird" Parker was a highly unusual entry in the field, written in a raw, arresting style. But is Dark Hollow, the second appearance of Connolly's fiery and inexorable investigator, equally gripping? Connolly himself has remarked that he wanted to give this new book a very sinister feel, rather than just a gruesome one. In this, he has succeeded triumphantly.

This time, Bird--recovering from the murder of his family by The Travelling Man--returns to the scene of happier times, the wintry Maine of his childhood. But relaxation is once again elusive: another young woman is savagely killed along with a child, and Bird's previous encounter with the victims compels him to track down the murderer. There is an obvious suspect, but Bird believes that the real answer lies 30 years in the past. As the body count increases, it becomes apparent that someone else is hunting for Billy, the dead woman's ex-husband and chief suspect in the slaying. And this dangerous figure appears to know Bird intimately. Before long, the tormented detective is investigating the terrifying origins of a mythical killer: the psychopathic Caleb Kyle.

Along with the kind of riveting storytelling skills we have come to expect from Connolly, the author has built into his narrative a superstructure of striking imagery. Predatory nature and the cycle of the seasons feed into the darker corners of the plot and illuminate the grim psychopathology of the characters. Bird remains the most involving of protagonists--and by dovetailing his hero's troubled past into the search narrative, Connolly ensnares the reader to the past page: "'Nice car', he repeated, and a fat white hand emerged from one of his pockets, the fingers like a thick, pale slugs that had spent too long in dark places. He caressed the roof of the Mustang appreciatively, and it seemed as if the paint would corrode spontaneously beneath his fingers". --Barry Forshaw --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars MENACING CHARACTERS IN SHIVER PRODUCING CLIMES, 25 Dec 2005
By Gail Cooke (TX, USA) - See all my reviews
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With an opening line signaling devilish doings, "I dream dark dreams," Irish thrillersmith John Connolly launches his second suspenseful tale featuring New York policeman turned private investigator Charlie Parker. Connolly copped the 2000 Shamus Award for his debut, "Every Dead Thing." "Dark Hollow" assures readers that he deserved it.

Unable to set aside the murders of his wife and daughter, a haunted Parker returns to his hometown of Scarborough, Maine. Rather than finding solace in the northeast woods Parker is faced with a series of seemingly unrelated mysteries and a terrifying sociopathic mobster, Tony Celli.

Oddly enough the current series of murders are remarkably akin to 40-year-old killings - crimes that Parker's grandfather spent most of his life trying to solve. What is the connection between today's violence and killings almost half a century old?

Author Connolly pulls out all the stops with this highly readable, almost surreal tale involving mysterious forces lurking in the wilderness, and a long buried past seemingly rising from the grave. Connolly's an ace at creating menacing characters and shiver producing climes.

- Gail Cooke

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Superbly gripping and high impact thriller, 9 Nov 2001
By Brian Butterly "Varied Taste" (Dorking UK) - See all my reviews
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I like thrillers with an American theme and I particularly enjoy Jonathan Kellerman, Elmore Leonard for their portrayal of the US genre. This is a remarkable book in that the author is Irish yet still captures the feel of an American thriller, set in the New England wilds, superbly. The detective Charlie Parker is resolute, believable and likable and I also enjoyed the introduction of his two pals to both back him up and also to watch his back. I will go on to read the rest of this author's works and would recommend others, that are completely new to this author, to pick up the first book and carry on through.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing read with dry one-liners., 17 Jun 2001
By hherron@lineone.net (Chichester, England) - See all my reviews
I actually stumbled on to this book and author by mistake as I was looking for Michael Connolly and picked this up in haste. Boy, am I glad I did!!! I was immediately hooked by John Connolly's style of writing and the interwoven humour reminded me of one of my favourite author's, Sue Grafton. His content is much darker but still has a great style to it and an ease of reading that I look for. I'm now half-way through "The Killing Kind" which has my heart racing as I read it. I must go back and read his first novel "Every Dead Thing" as I am now completely hooked. I simply don't know how I'm going to wait until the release of his fourth novel!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Another winner for me!
After 30 reviews it would all seem to have been said, but I want to say that this book was a real treat. In your face writing with bags of plot and excellent suspense moments. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Sterile

2.0 out of 5 stars You Will Know Him by the Trail of the Dead
Having read John Connolly's debut novel I found it flawed with a potential to be an excellent series. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Sam

4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent follow up to "Every Dead Thing"
This the second in the Charlie Parker series is much superior to its predecessor. Connolly has created a well worked thriller with more subtlety than his first effort. Read more
Published 14 months ago by noggy1810

4.0 out of 5 stars Much better than the first book
P.I. Charlie Parker returns in the second novel in the series written by John Connolly. The story is about a murderer named Caleb Kyle who stalked and brutally murdered women over... Read more
Published 15 months ago by KM

3.0 out of 5 stars 2 1/2 Stars -- Lots Of Action but Dark Hollow Left Me With a Dark Hollow Sense Of Satisfaction!
Having enjoyed Every Dead Thing as well as The White Road, I was somewhat disappointed in this sequel to Every Dead Thing. Read more
Published 17 months ago by bobbewig

4.0 out of 5 stars getting better
John Connolly's books came highly recomended to me but I have to say I was disappointed with Every Dad Thing. I decided to stick with them though and I'm glad I did. Read more
Published on 23 Jun 2007 by T. Josham

4.0 out of 5 stars ...run a mile.
Charlie Parker isn't a lucky man. A simple job of getting child maintenance for a client turns into a hunt for a killer that's linked to an old lady's fear of a man called Caleb... Read more
Published on 4 Jun 2007 by NextRead

4.0 out of 5 stars Excuse me but would you buy my other book please?
This is the second in the Charlie `Bird' Parker series, and of course that means there was a first : Every Dead Thing. Read more
Published on 1 Oct 2006 by OEJ

5.0 out of 5 stars A SLOW GRADUAL CRESCENDO OF SUSPENSE.
THIS BOOK IS SLOW TO START OFF, BUT BUILDS, PAGE BY PAGE - EACH ENDING OF A CHAPTER MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO GO FURTHER INTO THE AUTHORS DARK CHARACTERS AND IMAGINATION. Read more
Published on 5 April 2002 by kfoxgold@ukonline.co.uk

5.0 out of 5 stars Well he aint no Stephen King but......
It is certainly brave for a writer to step into the back yard of another certainly if the other writer is not only the king(no pun intended) of a genre but a genre unto himself... Read more
Published on 21 Feb 2002

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