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Charlie Parker

Cette série suit un ancien détective de police devenu enquêteur privé, dont les affaires plongent de plus en plus dans le surnaturel. Les démons personnels et le passé sombre du protagoniste se reflètent dans les menaces paranormales qu'il rencontre. Les lecteurs peuvent s'attendre à des récits captivants mêlant enquête, horreur et éléments surnaturels, explorant les frontières floues entre la réalité et l'au-delà.

La proie des ombres
Les Anges de la Nuit
The White Road
The Killing Kind
...Laissez Toute Espérance
Tout ce qui meurt

Ordre de lecture recommandé

  1. Tout ce qui meurt

    • 558pages
    • 20 heures de lecture

    Quelle mesure de bestialité pousse un tueur à torturer un enfant sous les yeux de sa mère, puis à s'en prendre à elle ? Quel degré de perversion doit avoir un meurtrier qui transforme le lieu du crime en une scène de création artistique et qui efface les visages de ses victimes, des visages qui ne seront jamais retrouvés ? Ces questions hantent Charlie Parker, un ancien policier new-yorkais, dont l'âme est marquée par une mélancolie persistante depuis qu'il a perdu sa femme et sa fille à cause d'un crime aussi abominable. Sa soif de vengeance l'a conduit à quitter la police, mais il décide de reprendre l'enquête avec l'aide d'un ancien collègue, surtout lorsque des meurtres similaires se produisent dans une ville voisine, puis encore et encore. Au fur et à mesure que le nombre de victimes augmente, Parker s'entoure d'une équipe hétéroclite, comprenant une vieille femme noire ayant des visions d'une créature qu'elle appelle le Voyageur, et une psychologue, Rachel, avec qui il dresse le portrait psychologique du tueur. Ce dernier apparaît comme un poseur, tuant pour l'effet... La tension monte, mais le Voyageur tentera de s'échapper de l'étau qui se resserre autour de lui, tout en cherchant à piéger ses poursuivants dans un final captivant.

    Tout ce qui meurt1
    3,8
  2. ...Laissez Toute Espérance

    • 541pages
    • 19 heures de lecture

    Dark Hollow is a masterful second novel from a young Irish writer whose storytelling skills were established with Every Dead Thing. Now his fiery, ingenious detective, Charlie Bird Parker, returns to uncover a legacy of evil that has haunted Maine citizens for decades.

    ...Laissez Toute Espérance2
    4,2
  3. The Killing Kind

    • 376pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    When the discovery of a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the grim truth behind the disappearance of a religious community, private detective Charlie Parker is drawn into a violent conflict with a group of zealots intent on tracking down a relic that could link them to the slaughter. Haunted by the ghost of a small boy and tormented by the demonic killer known as Mr. Pudd, Parker is forced to fight for his lover, his friends...and his very soul.

    The Killing Kind3
    4,2
  4. The White Road

    • 504pages
    • 18 heures de lecture

    In South Carolina, a young black man faces the death penalty for the rape and murder of Marianne Larousse, daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the state. It's a case that nobody wants to touch, a case with its roots in old evil, and old evil is private detective Charlie Parker's speciality. But Parker is about to make a descent into the abyss, a confrontation with dark forces that threaten all that Parker holds dear: his lover, his unborn child, even his soul. . . For in a prison cell, a fanatical preacher is about to take his revenge on Charlie Parker, its instruments the very men that Parker is hunting, and a strange, hunched creature that keeps its own secrets buried by a riverbank: the undiscovered killer Cyrus Nairn. Soon, all of these figures will face a final reckoning in southern swamps and northern forests, in distant locations linked by a single thread, a place where the paths of the living and the dead converge. A place known only as the White Road.

    The White Road4
    4,2
  5. Les Anges de la Nuit

    • 453pages
    • 16 heures de lecture

    Entré tout jeune dans une sanglante confrérie - les Faucheurs - Louis y a appris les rudiments d'un sale boulot. Contrat après contrat. Aujourd'hui, ces années-là sont derrière lui. Mais les démons du passé crient toujours dans la nuit et frappent à nouveau. Les Faucheurs sont à ses trousses. Bliss, le " tueur des tueurs ", veut sa peau : ni Louis ni ses proches ne sont a l'abri de son impitoyable vengeance. Bientôt, l'ami Charlie Parker se joint à la contre-attaque. Entre chiens et loups, la bataille s'annonce sans merci et la nuit, interminable, n'aura pas d'aurore...

    Les Anges de la Nuit5
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  6. Cinq ans que le docteur Daniel Clay, pédopsychiatre à la réputation trouble, n'a plus donné signe de vie. Comment expliquer que les enfants ayant subi des abus sexuels qu'il suivait retombaient invariablement dans l'enfer du viol ? Quelle horrible réalité se cache derrière le témoignage énigmatique fait par les victimes : un vieux clocher, des hommes à têtes d'oiseaux ? Autant de questions auxquelles le privé Charlie Parker doit répondre, et vite. Car un père en deuil, ex-tueur à gages, compte bien faire justice lui-même. Aveuglément. Quand les rapaces deviennent les proies, difficile de distinguer le bien du mal : dans les forêts profondes où le conduira cette course-poursuite, Parker devra faire l'apprentissage de la pitié. Et peut-être, enfin, faire taire ces voix qui chuchotent dans la nuit... «Ce livre est à coup sûr le meilleur roman d'un écrivain irlandais désormais considéré comme un des maîtres du genre.» P. B. - Atmosphères

    La proie des ombres6
    4,0
  7. When his friend, a former member of an elite assassin organization, is abducted by a vengeful adversary, Charlie Parker and his associates set out to find him, in a case that forces Charlie to test the boundaries of his ethics.

    The Reapers7
    3,8
  8. When Charlie Parker was still a boy, his father, an NYPD cop, killed a young couple, a boy and a girl barely older than his son, then took his own life. There was no explanation for his actions. Stripped of his private investigator's license, and watched by the police, Parker is working in a Portland bar, holding down a job and staying out of trouble. But in the background, he is working on his most personal case yet, an investigation into his own origins and the circumstances surrounding the death of his father, Will. It is an investigation that will reveal a life haunted by lies, by his mother's loss and his father's betrayal, by secrets kept and loyalties compromised. And by two figures in the shadows, a man and a woman, with only one purpose: to bring an end to Charlie Parker's existence . . .

    The Lovers8
    4,0
  9. The Whisperers

    • 560pages
    • 20 heures de lecture

    Charlie Parker returns in the chilling new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE LOVERS

    The Whisperers9
    4,1
  10. 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 . . .

    The Burning Soul10
    4,1
  11. Sur son lit de mort, Harlan Vetters dévoile à ses enfants un ancien secret. Des années auparavant, il a trouvé, au fin fond d’une forêt du Maine, l’épave d’un avion dont la disparition n’avait jamais été signalée. À son bord, aucune trace humaine, mais une grosse somme d’argent, qu’il a dérobée, et une énigmatique liste de noms – tous liés à un destin funeste –, qu’il a laissée derrière lui. Contacté par la fille de Vetters, Charlie Parker découvre que de nombreuses personnes son prêtes à tuer pour s’approprier cette fameuse liste. Et en vient vite à se demander si son propre nom n’y figure pas…

    La colère des anges11
    4,1
  12. 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 Thriller - 12: The Wolf in Winter12
    4,2
  13. A Song of Shadows

    • 448pages
    • 16 heures de lecture

    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 . . .

    A Song of Shadows13
    4,5
  14. A Time of Torment

    • 480pages
    • 17 heures de lecture

    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.

    A Time of Torment14
    4,3
  15. Internationally bestselling author John Connolly returns with another superb fusion of noir and the supernatural (My Bookish Ways) in this latest thriller in his gripping Charlie Parker series. It is deep winter and the darkness is unending. A private detective named Jaycob Eklund has vanished and Charlie Parker is assigned 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 is 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..."

    A game of ghosts15
    4,2
  16. The Dirty South

    • 480pages
    • 17 heures de lecture

    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.

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  • 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 ?

    La maison des miroirs
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