Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite

Even after nearly being killed, trouble refuses to leave detective Charlie Parker alone. In A Song of Shadows, the thirteenth book in John Connolly’s series featuring Parker, the detective has gone to a remote town in northern Maine to recuperate from his near fatal shooting in the last book, The Wolf in Winter. The series began as a better-than-average moody private detective series, but it wasn’t long before Connolly introduced subtle supernatural elements to his series. In A Song of Shadows, it becomes more clear than ever that Parker’s family has something out of the ordinary in their bloodline. Parker himself has always been attuned to traces of evil in the world and can see ghosts in his dreams. His daughter, only six, is starting to show signs that she’s got an even more spectacular gift. I’m getting ahead of myself....

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