A Book of Bones
- Published
- 1 January 2019
- Pages
- 552
- ISBN-13
- 9781473641990
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Book of Bones is a novel by John Connolly, in 2019 at 552 pages. It is entry #17 in Charlie Parker. The Woman in the Woods comes before it, The Dirty South after.
Key facts about A Book of Bones
John Connolly wrote A Book of Bones, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2019. The book has 552 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781473641990 to find the main one.
A Book of Bones is book 19 of 25 in the Charlie Parker series. The series has 25 published books. However, the series starts with Every Dead Thing (1999). A River Red with Blood is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 7 May 2026.
Additionally, John Connolly writes The Book of Lost Things, Samuel Johnson and Chronicles of the Invaders as separate series. Those series sit on our supernatural crime, fantasy and young adult shelves. Meanwhile, A River Red with Blood is the latest published John Connolly book on file, from 7 May 2026.
About John Connolly
John Connolly is an Irish novelist best known for the Charlie Parker series, which follows a former NYPD detective turned private investigator in Maine and blends hardboiled crime plotting with supernatural horror -- ghosts, ancient evils, and a recurring sense that Parker's cases are connected to something larger and darker than ordinary crime. See every John Connolly book in order.
Its place in Charlie Parker
A Book of Bones is book 19 in the Charlie Parker series. It follows The Woman in the Woods. It is followed by The Dirty South. See the full Charlie Parker reading order.
Charlie Parker is a former NYPD detective turned private investigator whose wife and young daughter were murdered before the series begins -- a trauma that never fully recedes and that opens the door to the series' defining move: John Connolly writes hard-edged American crime fiction that is also, unapologetically, ghost story and horror. Parker is haunted, sometimes literally, by the dead he failed to save, and his cases increasingly brush up against something genuinely supernatural and ancient lurking behind…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781473642027
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781473641990