The Lovers - John Connolly

“The Lovers” is part of the ‘Charlie Parker’ series of books written by John Connolly although I hadn’t realised that when I got it. It was a book that came highly recommended on one of my sites that I use, lovereading.com. The story is this; the main character, Charlie Parker, is a private eye – or rather I should say is that in this book he is an ex private eye as his license has been revoked for some reason or other (I wasn’t quite clear on the reason, I’m assuming that it is explained in a previous book!) So if you are a first time reader of this series like myself, you will be introduced ... more

I have had a bit of a spurt of late: John Connolly's books have been gathering dust on my shelves and I have finally managed to go through a few of them. The Lovers follows on in the series of books featuring private detective Charlie Parker, and does so in the usual and familiar way that Connolly approaches the stories. Previously, we have seen the PI face up to a number of gruesome enemies, all of them with some kind of supernatural element to them, and this one is no different. Connolly picks up the thread of Parker's life directly after the events of The Reapers, which focused more on ... more