A Book of Bones by John ConnollyMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
What could possibly outshine a new entry in John Connolly's meta-exceptional Charlie Parker Series? I'd be hard pressed to judge, because this is my equivalent of Christmas and birthdays rolled into one. I think Paradise would consist of rereading this entire, lengthy, always engrossing, series again in consecutive order from the very beginning. Private Investigator Charlie Parker of Scarborough, Maine: a former police detective, widower, who also lost his first daughter, parent of a second daughter who walks between worlds and regularly converses with her father's murdered first daughter, a mortal man who has died and returned...I can think of no protagonist to compare. And Parker's friends, the indombitable Louis and Angel....An incredible, delightful, irresistible trio.
In this 17th novel in the series, the trio continues to track the odd English lawyer Quayle, and his Pale as Death associate, the morally corrupt Pallida Mors, following their trail of brutality from Indiana to Maine, and on to England, where numerous ritual sacrifices are undertaken in pursuit of reviving an ancient Earthbound evil. At the heart of the matter is the infamous Fractured Atlas, a living entity which will remake this world for the much, much, worse.
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