"The town of Prosperous, is not as it seems and people will die to keep its secrets"
The Wolf in Winter
By: John Connolly
Genres: Thriller
Posted: January 11, 2015
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.
Book 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…
by: John Connolly
Atria
November 1, 2014
On Sale: October 28, 2014
Featuring: Charlie Parker
433 pages
ISBN: 1476703183
EAN: 9781476703183
Kindle: B00DPM7Y9A
Hardcover / e-Book