The Furies: Private Investigator Charlie Parker looks evil in the eye in the globally bestselling series (Charlie Parker Thriller)

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Good strong female characters, who probably don't need Parker as much as they think they do, and all the usual suspects are present and doing what they do best.

Connolly imagined as a novella - Sisters Strange - and wrote during the early part of the pandemic instead became a short novel! Who am I to try and tell you how magnificent an author John Connolly is, and how I’ve enjoyed The Furies? Where The Sisters Strange holds back the supernatural in favour of the monstrosity humans are capable of though, The Furies throws itself wholeheartedly into that mysterious realm of ghosts and monsters – though of course, plenty of the humans involved are more than capable of presenting their own threat. A chance encounter in a Berlin hotel with celebrated author Erich Ackerman gives Maurice an opportunity. We learn about Kate’s possibly stalling career and Leo’s plan to apply to acting schools against his mother’s wishes.

Beneath his own features I descried those of another, the lines sharp and animalistic, the teeth jagged and sharp, and I smelled, amid the man’s floral scent, a hint of burning. He has a favorite watering hole, friends, and even the occasional client, but he is extremely discriminating about the types of cases he signs on to anymore. Louis and Angel, two of Parker’s constant companions, shined brightly (especially so when confronting their peers in organized crime). Michaelides takes a literary turn in his latest novel, employing an unreliable narrator, the structure of classical drama, and a self-conscious eye to dismantling the locked-room mystery. Both stories takes place around Portland, Maine and are dark and are a little supernatural thrillers.

In the first story, The Sisters Strange, Charlie Parker is hired by a man to protect the woman he loves from a dangerous man.Hannah Beckerman, Observer * You've heard the old proverb about ambition, that it's like setting a ladder to the sky. In fact, if counting these two as one, a reader has to go back at least 4 or 5 books for that plot to be advanced. Indeed, the novel does double duty as a survival manual, packed full of good advice—for instance, try not to get wounded, for “injury turns you from a giver to a taker. A mysterious coin collector named Kepler claims it rightfully belongs to him, and he has no qualms about killing anybody to retrieve it.

Then, in The Furies, Parker is charged with bringing about the end of a serious case of blackmail against the widow of a deceased Mafia man. I am a long time fan of the Charlie Parker series so was thrilled to receive a copy of this latest book from Netgalley and Atria Books.

Still haunted by his daughter’s ghost occasionally, Parker now works as a private investigator in Portland, Maine, sometimes employing Angel and Louis, two hard cases from New York. So the only thing I’m going to say here is that I enjoyed every word, every sentence every minute I was reading this book. I've yet to not enjoy a Connolly book - even at their weakest, Connolly is too skilled of a storyteller to not give me something good - and each of the stories sets up solid enough stakes that the novellas don't just feel like one-off tangents.

Every new John Connolly book is a day one purchase and read for me, and The Furies is no exception, even if I've read half of the book before. The Furies : mythological snake-haired goddesses of vengeance, pursuers of those who have committed unavenged crimes. Thank you to Atria Books and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. THE WATCH HOUSE by Bernie McGill is the story of the modern world arriving on Rathlin, a remote Irish island, at the very end of the nineteenth century, with dramatic consequences for a young woman named Nuala.But it may be that those clients are more capable of taking care of themselves than anyone could have imagined.