New York Times bestselling author John Connolly brings his "visionary
brand of neo-noir" (The Irish Times) to this "riveting and chilling"
(San Francisco Examiner) Charlie Parker thriller about new secrets
buried and old secrets unearthed.There are some truths so terrible that
they should not be spoken aloud. Here is one of those truths: after
three hours, the abduction of a child is routinely treated as a
homicide. When a girl disappears from a small Maine town, her
neighbor--a recluse named Randall Haight--starts receiving anonymous
letters that contain tormenting references to a different teenage girl,
murdered long ago. For many years, Randall has kept a secret: when he
was fourteen, he was convicted of killing that girl. Now, his former
life has returned to haunt him, and he hires private detective Charlie
Parker to make it go away. But in a town built on blood and shadowed by
old ghosts, where too many of the living are hiding secrets, the past
cannot be dismissed so easily. As Parker unravels a twisted, violent
history involving a doomed mobster and his enemies, the police, and the
FBI, his search returns again and again to Randall Haight. Because
Randall is still telling lies...