Charlie Parker · Book 5
Nocturnes
- Published
- 1 January 2004
- Pages
- 496
- ISBN-13
- 9780340933992
- Type
- collection
About this book
Nocturnes is a 496-page short story collection Connolly published in 2004, appearing between the novels The White Road and The Black Angel and mixing Parker-related tales with unrelated fiction, carrying no series ordinal of its own within Connolly's gothic, ghost-story-inflected take on American crime fiction.
Its place in Charlie Parker
Nocturnes is book 5 in the Charlie Parker series. It follows The White Road. It is followed by The Black Angel. 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 9780340933992