A dark fraternity.
A web of conceit.
Charlie Parker is hired to investigate the apparent suicide of a former flame, Grace Peltier. A graduate student, Grace had been writing a damning thesis on religious cults.
Elsewhere, an abortion doctor is found, nested in a cocoon of brown recluse and black widow spiders. And, a world away but somehow connected, a mass grace is uncovered . . .
As these events fatefully converge, Parker is being followed. Someone is creeping into his world and infesting it with darkness. Someone whose venom seeps into communities and weaves destruction.
Someone who goes by the name of Mr. Pudd.
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Praise for Dark Hollow:
‘A brilliantly terrifying ride’
Irish Times
‘Menace has never been so seductive’
Guardian
‘Sets the mind and pulse racing’
Daily Mirror
A web of conceit.
Charlie Parker is hired to investigate the apparent suicide of a former flame, Grace Peltier. A graduate student, Grace had been writing a damning thesis on religious cults.
Elsewhere, an abortion doctor is found, nested in a cocoon of brown recluse and black widow spiders. And, a world away but somehow connected, a mass grace is uncovered . . .
As these events fatefully converge, Parker is being followed. Someone is creeping into his world and infesting it with darkness. Someone whose venom seeps into communities and weaves destruction.
Someone who goes by the name of Mr. Pudd.
—
Praise for Dark Hollow:
‘A brilliantly terrifying ride’
Irish Times
‘Menace has never been so seductive’
Guardian
‘Sets the mind and pulse racing’
Daily Mirror
Reviews
John 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.
Arachnophobes should give this novel a wide berth
Connolly has become the leading commentator on Maine's morbidity
Connolly's characters have substance beyond vehicles for horror, and this is what puts him ahead in a crowded genre race
'As the body count increases, Connolly introduces a chilling new villain and an age-old legend. Together they'll keep you on the edge of your seat. Don't read it alone!
Elias Pudd makes Hannibal Lecter seem like Little Lord Fauntleroy. Gripping, intricately plotted, this is no ordinary thriller. . . Also becoming more apparent are the depths of this author's psychological acumen, literary skills and prodigious creativity.
Connolly's reflections on evil, the past, and reparation are lyrical and affecting, and his grim fundamentalists send off frissons.
The unrivalled master of Maine noir. Menace has never been so seductive.
Fast-paced, violent thriller writing done with consummate skill.
Connolly does the chill factor brilliantly, creating horror out of the sort of misguided religious fervour not seen since Waco. Mass graves, Parker's sixth sense and deadly spiders set the mind and pulse racing.
The unrivalled master of Maine noir. Menace has never been so seductive.
Fast-paced, violent thriller writing done with consummate skill.
Connolly does the chill factor brilliantly, creating horror out of the sort of misguided religious fervour not seen since Waco. Mass graves, Parker's sixth sense and deadly spiders set the mind and pulse racing.
The unrivalled master of Maine noir. Menace has never been so seductive.
Fast-paced, violent thriller writing done with consummate skill.
Connolly does the chill factor brilliantly, creating horror out of the sort of misguided religious fervour not seen since Waco. Mass graves, Parker's sixth sense and deadly spiders set the mind and pulse racing.
As 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.
What 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.
Connolly's achievement is a literary thriller, charged with menace from beginning to end, taut as it is terrifying.
