The Furies: Private Investigator Charlie Parker looks evil in the eye in the globally bestselling series (Charlie Parker Thriller)

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I'd like to have said that this was a lesson hard-learned, but it would suggest my education was in the past, whereas it was still ongoing. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Quinn informs Parker about the occult connection to the investigation, which is evident when certain symbols are found not only at the murder scenes, but also in Buker’s room at a local flophouse along with a new tattoo on his forearm. This book contains 2 novels, each of which could have been a standalone and, even though this book is part of the Charlie Parker series, the entire book stands alone from the series. Now, private investigator Charlie Parker is drawn into a world of modern furies in two linked stories.

The first is "The Sisters Strange," which Connolly originally published during the pandemic day by day, but which has been revised and nearly doubled in length, and tells the story of a pair of sisters who are involved with the same very dangerous man, and how the consequences of his actions are coming home to roost; the titular second novella takes place in the opening days of the pandemic, and deals with a local rats nest and two women both in need of protection.The humor, combined with the excellent creation of atmosphere, is what keeps me reading these supernatural thrillers. A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks’ latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, “it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people. Connolly has stated that the novel, which is quite lengthy, was conceived and written during the pandemic lockdown. Then, in The Furies, Parker is charged with bringing about the end of a serious case of blackmail against the widow of a deceased Mafia man. And so he does and gets involved with a coin collecting group of nasties, sickos, strangies and worse.

Both stories takes place around Portland, Maine and are dark and are a little supernatural thrillers. Anyhow, the first woman, a widow, wants to get back some stolen items which belonged to her deceased daughter. The Gates launched the Samuel Johnson series for younger readers in 2009, followed by Hell's Bells (UK)/The Infernals (US) in 2011. Dolors (spelled correctly) and Ambar (also correct) are or were involved with the same creepy, just-out-of-prison guy up in Maine, where all this happens. This book should be named "Cases resolving by themselves", because Parker has absolutely nothing to do with solving them.

I was a bit doubtful if the two in one would feel rushed and not have the same depth as usual, but I didn't feel I missed anything. Although this is the twentieth in the Charlie Parker series, I think it is the first one I have read. Charlie Parker has since appeared in five additional novels: The Unquiet, The Reapers (where he plays a secondary role to his associates, Louis and Angel), The Lovers, The Whisperers, and The Burning Soul. In the second and titular story, Charlie is hired by a woman who is trying to recover some items stolen from her, items that had once belonged to her dead daughter.

Women figure predominantly in both novels, Charlie being caught up in issues/problems/dilemmas involving women. The Furies: mythological snake-haired goddesses of vengeance, pursuers of those who have committed unavenged crimes. So the only thing I’m going to say here is that I enjoyed every word, every sentence every minute I was reading this book. He has expanded and freshened it up for us and the second chapter brings Louis and Angel into the mix with another Parker book. The eleventh Charlie Parker novel, The Wrath of Angels, will be available in the UK in August 2012 and in the US in January 2013.Lord knows, he took every other opportunity to sit when it was offered, so there seemed to be no comprehensible reason why he couldn’t have extended that policy to peeing, too. Each is drawn towards a powerful reckoning, one that will bring them together in the most unexpected of ways.

The writing is there - eloquent and poetic as always, but it echoes into a dull, fragmented plot with no real stand-out characters. In The Sisters Strange, criminal Raum Buker arrives in Portland, only for a shocking act of theft to threaten not only his own existence but those of his former lovers—the enigmatic sisters Strange. Although I enjoyed this edition to the Charlie Parker series and thought it was very well done, I want a full fledged book and will be eagerly waiting for the next book in the series. The Furies is the twentieth novel (or to be more precise, a collection of two interrelated novellas) in Connolly’s Charlie Parker series (although only the third in the series for this reviewer). She's being blackmailed to get them back, and since her dead husband might have gotten in wrong with 'the mob,' it makes this case very tricky indeed.Well written and more literate than some novels in this genre, I liked the main character, especially his sense of justice and understanding of the world.