"The town of Prosperous, is not as it seems and people will die to keep its secrets"
Reviewed by Shellie Surles
Posted January 11, 2015
Thriller
A homeless man is found dead from an apparent suicide and
Charlie Parker is asked to look into it. A series of
events
leads Charlie to believe that there is a lot more involved
than it first looks and Charlie starts to investigate his
death and his missing daughter.
Charlie's investigation leads him to the town of
Prosperous
and what he finds is a well to do town, run well, almost
too
well. Something isn't right and Charlie is determined to
figure out what.
Prosperous has always done better that the towns around
it.
They have kept out strangers and are run by families that
have been there since long before our nation was formed.
The
town is hiding a secret and only those running it know
exactly what the secret is.
Though this is book twelve in the Charlie Parker
series it
is easily read as a standalone. I love this character and
book. I have not read any of the other in the series and
now wish I had. THE WOLF IN WINTER speaks of a religion
from the old world that is brought over to America and the
town of people that follow it.
Charlie Parker works with a great group of good and bad
guys
that you can't help but love. Even his nemesis from other
books is elegantly woven into this book and flows with the
current story line. If you haven't read any Charlie
Parker
books by John Connolly start now with THE WOLF IN WINTER
then go back and read the others.
SUMMARY
The next pulse-pounding thriller in John Connolly's
internationally bestselling Charlie Parker series. The community of Prosperous, Maine has always thrived when
others have suffered. Its inhabitants are wealthy, its
children’s future secure. It shuns outsiders. It guards
its
own. And at the heart of Prosperous lie the ruins of an
ancient church, transported stone by stone from England
centuries earlier by the founders of the town… But the death of a homeless man and the disappearance of
his
daughter draw the haunted, lethal private investigator
Charlie Parker to Prosperous. Parker is a dangerous man,
driven by compassion, by rage, and by the desire for
vengeance. In him the town and its protectors sense a
threat
graver than any they have faced in their long history, and
in the comfortable, sheltered inhabitants of a small Maine
town, Parker will encounter his most vicious opponents
yet. Charlie Parker has been marked to die so that Prosperous
may
survive. Prosperous, and the secret that it hides beneath its
ruins…
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