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The Lovers | 
 enlarge | Author: John Connolly
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Category: Book
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Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 134577
Media: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 034093669X
EAN: 9780340936696
ASIN: 034093669X
Publication Date: July 9, 2009
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Product Description
Charlie Parker returns in the chilling new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE REAPERS
Amazon.co.uk Review
In The Lovers, John Connolly’s latest, highly individual entry in his distinguished Charlie Parker series, his doughty private eye’s life is in a downward spiral. The authorities don’t trust him, and he has been deprived of his investigator's license (including his right to bear arms). He’s holding down an undemanding job in a Portland bar. But Charlie is not the kind to stay in the shadows for long: he is about to undertake the most challenging (and potentially destructive) assignment of his life: he has decided to uncover the facts behind his policeman father’s death and – even more importantly -- the killing of a young couple that his father was responsible for. Immersing himself once again in the painful circumstances of his own childhood, he comes across a mystery: an unidentified young man and woman who appear to have been present at many death scenes; and – even harder to accept – they have been seen right back to the days of the suicide of Charlie’s father. This mysterious duo are shadowing Charlie -- will he find out the motivation behind his father’s terrible act before he, too, violently dies? Dublin-born John Connolly is as celebrated in the US as he is in Britain for his perfect assimilation of American idioms in the remarkable series of crime novels featuring Charlie Parker, but it goes without saying that bestselling success requires something more than nailing a US tone of voice. That such as Connolly winners as Every Dead Thing,The Reapers and now, The Lovers, work as well as they do is also down to the fact that he is able to import a striking and stylish use of language into his violent narratives. And there is another element to his work – an audacious move beyond the parameters of normality. The Lovers, like other Connolly books, transports the novels’ battles between good and evil into an almost metaphysical realm. This is always the most controversial component of his books, and inevitably, it’s not to everyone’s taste. But those who love John Connolly know such things are part of the warp and woof of his work, and they move him into a territory that is very much his own. --Barry Forshaw
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 The Lovers August 31, 2010
Batty
This book was another great piece of escapism from John Connelly could just keep on reading and reading
brilliant July 12, 2010
S. Heatley (UK)
I have been a fan of the authors work since a friend leant me 'Every dead thing' several years ago. Since then I have read each book in order and this offering was certainly not a let down. I thought it brought together all the elements of previous stories really well and answered alot of questions.
No better way to spend some free time June 2, 2010
Diana Zaharieva (Danmark)
I love reading books and I have read a lot. John Connolly won me as a fan with his writing style, his humor, his charming characters and intriguing stories. The Lovers did not have the magic of The Black Angel (the one I think is his master piece) but it is meant to continue the story and it is interesting to see where the story's headed. The last page leaves you awating the publishing of the next book where you'll be looking for more answers and a more global picture. If you like thrillers, that's your author. This one is not a book I would recommend to be read as first from this author (because his stories follow a general line from his very first book, although the link appears much later), however even not following that general line, it is still a thrilling book.
 Did I miss something? May 6, 2010
A. Macdonald (Yorkshire.U.K.)
Either I finished the book too late at night or I missed something!{Apologies if I did.}I had enjoyed the book until very near the end but here's where I got confused.
Did these beings, previously indestructible, suddenly die for ever? and why were they after Charlie anyway?
Can anybody out there explain this to me?
 rubish April 5, 2010
Ms. E. Oliver (home)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
i've tried to read this book but can't, john connolly keeps on jumping from one type of story to another and i'n getting confused with the plot of the story. this book is going back a.s.a.p and i'll never be buying anything from this Author in future.
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