The Killing Kind
- Published
- 1 January 2001
- Pages
- 388
- ISBN-13
- 9780340771211
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Killing Kind, published in 2001 at 388 pages, is a novel by John Connolly. It sits at #3 in Charlie Parker's reading order. Dark Hollow comes before it, The White Road after.
Key facts about The Killing Kind
The Killing Kind is a novel by John Connolly. Readers have had it since 2001. It runs to 388 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of The Killing Kind. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780340771211 to find the main one.
The Killing Kind is book 3 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
The Killing Kind is book 3 in the Charlie Parker series. It follows Dark Hollow. It is followed by The White Road. 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 9780340771211