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Diese Serie begleitet einen ehemaligen Polizisten, der nun als Privatdetektiv tätig ist und dessen Fälle zunehmend ins Übernatürliche abdriften. Die persönlichen Dämonen und die dunkle Vergangenheit des Protagonisten spiegeln sich in den paranormalen Bedrohungen wider, denen er begegnet. Leser können fesselnde Detektivgeschichten erwarten, die mit Elementen des Horrors und des Unheimlichen verwoben sind und die verschwimmenden Grenzen zwischen Realität und dem Übernatürlichen erforschen.
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In tiefer Finsternis
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- 16 Lesestunden
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Ein junger Schwarzer sitzt in der Todeszelle: Er soll die Tochter eines der reichsten Männer South Carolinas ermordet haben. Niemand möchte mit diesem Fall zu tun haben, der seine Wurzeln in altem Übel hat. Doch das ist die Spezialität von Privatdetektiv Charlie Parker. Er ahnt nicht, dass ihm ein Alptraum bevorsteht, in dem dunkle Mächte alles fordern, was ihm lieb ist.
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Eine junge Frau verschwindet spurlos in den Straßen von New York. Charlie Parker, Privatdetektiv aus Maine, wird beauftragt, sie zu finden. Er stößt auf die makabren Reliquien eines uralten Totenkultes. In einem Beinhaus im böhmischen Sedlec, inmitten atemberaubender Kunstwerke aus menschlichen Knochen, steht er dem leibhaftigen Grauen gegenüber.
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Ein Mann verfolgt Rebecca Clay auf Schritt und Tritt. Er sucht nach ihrem Vater, den er für den Tod seiner Tochter verantwortlich macht. Verzweifelt schaltet Rebecca Privatdetektiv Charlie Parker ein. Er begibt sich auf die Spur des Mannes und stößt dabei auf eine mörderische Sekte. Ein unaufhaltsam blutiger Rachefeldzug beginnt. Vor Jahren verschwand Rebecca Clays Vater. Es hieß, der berühmte Kinderpsychologe habe sich umgebracht. Als ein unbekannter Mann Rebecca anspricht und nach Clay fragt, werden die alten Wunden wieder aufgerissen. In ihrer Verzweiflung wendet sich Rebecca an Charlie Parker. Eine fatale Entscheidung, denn die Wahrheit ist grauenvoll, die Gerechtigkeit blutig. John Connollys neuer Grusel-Thriller erzählt von einem Horror, dem jeder von uns jederzeit ausgeliefert sein kann.
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Berufskiller Louis muss um sein Leben fürchten. Expartner Bliss und ein auf Rache sinnender Vater wollen ihn tot sehen. Doch dann erhält Louis den Auftrag, seinen schärfsten Gegner auszuschalten. Fast zu spät merkt er, dass er in die Falle getappt ist – Bliss der Henker erwartet ihn bereits ...
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Charlie Parker war noch ein Kind, als sein Vater ein junges Liebespaar tötete. Dann richtete der Cop des NYPD die Waffe gegen sich selbst. Jahrelang hat Parker nach einer Erklärung für diese Tat gesucht. Ein Auftrag führt den Privatdetektiv in seinen Heimatort. Er beginnt, den lange zurückliegenden Selbstmord zu untersuchen – und stößt dabei auf ein Gespinst von Lüge, Verrat und Illoyalität.
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Charlie Parker erhält den Auftrag, den Selbstmord von Damien Patchett zu untersuchen. Der junge Irak-Veteran war in illegale Geschäfte mit gestohlenen Kunstschätzen verwickelt. Unter dem Beutegut war ein antikes Kästchen, das ein dämonisches Geheimnis birgt. Aus Patchetts Kompanie sterben weitere Männer. Um das Morden zu stoppen, muss Parker ein Bündnis eingehen, das er mehr fürchtet als alles andere.
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Randall Haight has a secret: when he was a teenager, he and his friend killed a 14-year-old girl. Randall did his time and built a new life in the small Maine town of Pastor's Bay, but somebody has discovered the truth about Randall. He is being tormented by anonymous messages, haunting reminders of his past crime, and he wants private detective Charlie Parker to make it stop. But another 14-year-old girl has gone missing, this time from Pastor's Bay, and the missing girl's family has its own secrets to protect. Now Parker must unravel a web of deceit involving the police, the FBI, a doomed mobster named Tommy Morris, and Randall Haight himself. Because Randall Haight is telling lies . . .
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Cuervos
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The Wrath of Angels
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The eleventh Charlie Parker thriller - 'the finest crime series currently in existence' Independent on Sunday číst celé
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Prosperous, and the secret that it hides beneath its ruins . . . The community of Prosperous, Maine has always thrived when others have suffered. Its inhabitants are wealthy, its children's future secure. It shuns outsiders. It guards its own. And at the heart of Prosperous lie the ruins of an ancient church, transported stone by stone from England centuries earlier by the founders of the town . . . But the death of a homeless man and the disappearance of his daughter draw the haunted, lethal private investigator Charlie Parker to Prosperous. Parker is a dangerous man, driven by compassion, by rage, and by the desire for vengeance. In him the town and its protectors sense a threat graver than any they have faced in their long history, and in the comfortable, sheltered inhabitants of a small Maine town, Parker will encounter his most vicious opponents yet. Charlie Parker has been marked to die so that Prosperous may survive.
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Grievously wounded private detective Charlie Parker investigates a case that has its origins in a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War. Broken, but undeterred, private detective Charlie Parker faces the darkest of dark forces in a case with its roots in the second world war, and a concentration camp unlike any other . . . Recovering from a near-fatal shooting and tormented by memories of a world beyond this one, Parker has retreated to the small Maine town of Boreas to recover. There he befriends a widow named Ruth Winter and her young daughter, Amanda. But Ruth has her secrets. She is hiding from the past, and the forces that threaten her have their origins in the Second World War, in a town called Lubko and a concentration camp unlike any other. Old atrocities are about to be unearthed, and old sinners will kill to hide their sins. Now Parker is about to risk his life to defend a woman he barely knows, one who fears him almost as much as she fears those who are coming for her. His enemies believe him to be vulnerable. Fearful. Solitary. But they are wrong. Parker is far from afraid, and far from alone. For something is emerging from the shadows . . .
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Jerome Burnel was once a hero. He intervened to prevent multiple killings and in doing so damned himself. His life was torn apart. He was imprisoned, brutalized. But in his final days, with the hunters circling, he tells his story to private detective Charlie Parker. He speaks of the girl who was marked for death but was saved, of the ones who tormented him, and an entity that hides in a ruined stockade. Parker is not like other men. He died, and was reborn. He is ready to wage war. Now he will descend upon a strange, isolated community called the Cut, and face down a force of men who rule by terror, intimidation, and murder. All in the name of the being they serve. All in the name of the Dead King.
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The annual thrilling instalment of John Connolly's popular Charlie Parker series. It is deep winter. The darkness is unending. The private detective named Jaycob Eklund has vanished, and Charlie Parker is dispatched 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 will be 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 . . .
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The Number One bestseller. It is spring, and the semi-preserved body of a young Jewish woman is discovered buried in the Maine woods. It is clear that she gave birth shortly before her death. But there is no sign of a baby. Private detective Charlie Parker is engaged by the lawyer Moxie Castin to shadow the police investigation and find the infant, but Parker is not the only searcher. Someone else is following the trail left by the woman, someone with an interest in more than a missing child, someone prepared to leave bodies in his wake. And in a house by the woods, a toy telephone begins to ring. For a young boy is about to receive a call from a dead woman . . .
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The new thrilling installment of John Connolly's popular Charlie Parker series. He is our best hope. He is our last hope. On lonely moor in the northeast of England, the body of a young woman is discovered near the site of a vanished church. In the south, a girl lies buried beneath a Saxon mound. To the southeast, the ruins of a priory hide a human skull. Each is a sacrifice, a summons. And something in the darkness has heard the call. But another is coming: Parker the hunter, the avenger. From the forests of Maine to the deserts of the Mexican border, from the canals of Amsterdam to the streets of London, he will track those who would cast this world into darkness. Parker fears no evil. But evil fears him . . .
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It is 1997, and someone is slaughtering young women in Burdon County, Arkansas. But no one in the Dirty South wants to admit it. In an Arkansas jail cell sits a former NYPD detective, stricken by grief. He is mourning the death of his wife and child, and searching in vain for their killer. Obsessed with avenging his lost family, his life is about to take a shocking turn. Witness the dawning of a conscience. Witness the birth of a hunter. Witness the becoming of Charlie Parker.
Quelques meubles minables. Une odeur infecte. Aux murs, des miroirs, et encore des miroirs. Ici, il y a vingt ans, John Grady a tué quatre enfants. Ce n'est plus une maison, c'est un tombeau. Et quelque chose y demeure, qui ne demande qu'à ressurgir. Chargé de surveiller cet endroit sinistre, Charlie Parker scrute les ombres... Il n'est pas seul : dehors, un homme étrange attend de recouvrir une dette. Le "Collectionneur". Et si le pire était à chercher de l'autre côté des miroirs ?
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