Charlie Parker · Book 9

The Lovers

Published
1 January 2009
Pages
344
ISBN-13
9781416569541
Type
novel
Cover of The Lovers

About this book

The Lovers is a novel by John Connolly, in 2009 at 344 pages. It sits at #8 in Charlie Parker's reading order. It sits between The Reapers and The Whisperers.

Key facts about The Lovers

The Lovers is a novel by John Connolly. Readers have had it since 2009. It runs to 344 pages.

Our list holds 1 edition of The Lovers. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781416569541 to find the main one.

The Lovers is book 9 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 Lovers is book 9 in the Charlie Parker series. It follows The Reapers. It is followed by The Whisperers. 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…

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