20. A Time of Torment by John ConnollyThe latest Charlie Parker thriller. A solid addition to the series, but not one of the best. The usual stuff - Charlie gets pulled into an investigation that centres around a creepy reclusive rural community, only this time it's based in West Virginia rather than Maine. All the usual supporting cast are ( Read more... )

17. Night Music: Nocturnes 2 by John Connolly

My favourite John Connolly book is Nocturnes, his first volume of short stories. It's the first book of his I ever read and I was impressed not only by the individual stories in it, but the variety of voice that he employs ( Read more... )

28. A Song of Shadows by John ConnollyIn the last book in the series, the protagonist Charlie Parker was shot and nearly killed. Now he is recovering and has taken a cottage in an even more remote part of Maine ( Read more... )

30 The Wolf in Winter by John ConnollyIt's no secret that I love John Connolly's writing very much and I'm a big fangirl. However, I did feel that he'd lost his way with some of the more recent Charlie Parker novels ( Read more... )

7. Inherit the Dead by various authorsThis is a hard-boiled crime number written in twenty chapters by twenty different authors. I only became aware of it because John Connolly contributed a chapter ( Read more... )

62. The Wrath of Angels by John ConnollyI've been so busy that it took me in the region of two weeks to read this, and I can't remember taking more than 4 days to read any of his works. OK, also because it was in hardcover so I didn't lug it around on the bus with me.o because it was in hardcover so I didn't lug it around on the bus with me ( Read more... )

78. The Burning Soul by John Connolly

The latest instalment in the Charlie Parker series.

A young girl goes missing in northern Maine, and it turns out that one of the residents of the town murdered a 14 year old girl when he was 14 and was given a new identity when he was released from prison.  Someone has found out and is blackmailing him.  Are the ( Read more... )

67. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThis was reviewed in New Scientist when it came out and the author was later on Start the Week, at which point my library finally got a copy ( Read more... )

64. The Gates by John ConnollyThis is a young adult novel in which a combination of the Large Hadron Collider and a group of Satanists in a cellar in the Home Counties open a portal to Hell, with only a young boy and his dog (and a completely inept demon) to stop the inhabitants of Hell taking over the world. It manages to be scary and silly at ( Read more... )

58. In the Woods by Tana FrenchIn 1984 three children go to play in the woods near their homes near Dublin. Only one ever returns ( Read more... )