Did Grace Peltier commit suicide? When a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the final resting place of a religious community that disappeared almost forty years earlier, private detective Charlie Parker, hired to investigate the circumstances of her death, realises that their deaths and the violent passing of Grace Peltier are part of the same mystery, one that has its roots in her family history and in the origins of the shadowy organisation known as the Fellowship. Aided by the genial killers Angel and Louis, Parker must descend into the depths of a honeycomb world populated by dark angels and lost souls, a world where the ghosts of the dead wait for justice and the unwary are prey for the worst kind of creatures.
The killing kind. . .
Read MoreThe unrivalled master of Maine noir. Menace has never been so seductive. - Maxim Jakubowski, GuardianAs John Connolly plunges ever deeper into the underworld of the damned, the reader, with eyes of slits, must cling on for this brilliantly terrifying ride. - Irish TimesWhat makes Parker intriguing is precisely that, though a crusader against evil, he has a dark side: he is haunted by the past, his capacity for violence and guilt. - Telegraph MagazineConnolly's achievement is a literary thriller, charged with menace from beginning to end, taut as it is terrifying. - Live WireJohn Connolly knows how to get you to check the lock on your door before you put the lights out and again before you get into bed. - r?-raArachnophobes should give this novel a wide berth - Evening StandardConnolly has become the leading commentator on Maine's morbidity - Times PlayConnolly's characters have substance beyond vehicles for horror, and this is what puts him ahead in a crowded genre race - What's On (Amazon Books)