Unnerving and Unforgettable: Read Our Review of The Furies by John Connolly

From the number one Sunday Times and multi-million-copy bestselling author John Connolly comes two linked stories in one novel and the most compelling and unsettling Charlie Parker case yet.

The Furies: mythological snake-haired goddesses of vengeance, pursuers of those who have committed unavenged crimes. Now, private investigator Charlie Parker is drawn into a world of modern furies in two linked stories.

In The Sisters Strange, the return of the criminal Raum Buker to Portland, Maine brings with it chaos and murder, as an act of theft threatens not only to tear apart his own existence but also that of Raum’s former lovers, the enigmatic sisters Dolors and Ambar Strange.

And in The Furies Parker finds himself fighting to protect two more women as the city of Portland shuts down in the face of a global pandemic, but it may be that his clients are more capable of taking care of themselves than anyone could have imagined…

Unnerving. Unpredictable. Unforgettable: Join Charlie Parker as he returns to the dark side for another chilling case.

Irish author John Connolly is the master of the supernatural thriller. He introduced the character of Private Investigator Charlie Parker in Every Dead Thing, launching a global bestselling series, with The Furies the landmark, twentieth book. But if you’re new to the series, you can absolutely start here. The Charlie Parker novels each read as a standalone and can be read in any order.

With #20 in the series, Connolly takes a slightly different approach and delivers two novellas. Both stories have his trademark style of pitch-perfect prose and intense, dark supernatural elements. Parker is now living in Maine, but still employs Angel and Louis. It’s great to see both characters back after getting to know them more in Connolly’s last novel, The Nameless Ones. In that, Angel and Louis headed across Europe in pursuit of ruthless killers. Connelly weaved in the fascinating history of the Balkans region and the Serbo-Croatian war, along with the fallout from Tito and the former Yugoslavia.

This time we’re back Stateside, but it’s equally gruesome reading. But Connolly excels at taking the edge off that with some great banter and genuinely witty moments. Both stories are excellent, but I personally found The Sisters Strange the stronger of the two. Either way, this is yet another thrilling addition to the series. The only problem with finishing this novel is knowing that you have to wait a full year for the next one.

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