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I've raved enough about John Connolly over the years that you should know how I feel about him: that his writing is stunning and poetic; that his horrors are unmatched, unsettling, and terrifying; that his plotting is strong, but his characters are even better; that, in short, he's one of the best writers working today in the thriller OR horror genres, and that you should be reading him. So is it any surprise that I loved the latest entry in the Charlie Parker series, The Woman in the Woods? No, it's not. But the fact that it's one of the best in the series - if not the best - is no small thing. How many series continue to get better and better as they go? How many series keep improving and topping themselves? How many times can you say that the 16th entry in a series is its best? And yet, here we are.

The plot, as usual, is deceptively simple-sounding: a long-buried woman's corpse is discovered in the woods, and Parker is asked to help discover her identity and see to it that she's laid to rest. More importantly, though, he's asked to discover what became of her child, because it's evident that this woman gave birth not long before she died. But Parker is not the only person on this trail, and the other party is leaving a trail of butchered dead in its wake as it hunts down the lead.

The Woman in the Woods does more with the overarching Parker mythology than most, making it a hard book to recommend to non-fans. Indeed, from conversations about The Backers to the health status of Angel, from references to the list of names from The Wrath of Angels to the ongoing questions about Parker's daughter, The Woman in the Woods is partially about the way in which Parker's story is continuing in the background, without his knowledge. (What's more, The Woman in the Woods has heavy, heavy connections to The Fractured Atlas, a knockout horror novella from Connolly's previous short story collection, Night Music: Nocturnes Volume 2; it should almost be required reading for those interested in The Woman in the Woods.)

But even if you didn't know about Parker's ongoing saga, The Woman in the Woods delivers everything I love about John Connolly and then some. Are there vague, supernatural horrors that constantly lurk just beyond the edges of the page, suggesting more than is ever confirmed? Is there beautiful, poetic prose that muses on the nature of reality and morality without ever becoming pretentious? Is there the effortless blending of comedic beats and very funny dialogue with the dark tone of Parker's universe? Is there an unflinching look at the darkness and violent inherent to humanity, and the constant grappling with the question of how we can fight such evil? Is there's compelling, effective plotting that unfolds carefully and inexorably? There's all of that and more.

(There is also the ongoing story of Louis's attack upon a truck emblazoned with the Confederate flag, a story that seems to upset people as "political" as opposed to "justified" and "funny," which I found it. Also, any suggestion that this felt forced doesn't consider what it might be like to be a violent, dangerous black man who has been oppressed and dealt with hatred throughout his life who finds a chance to send a message. Nor does it consider that perhaps racism and hatred shouldn't be viewed as "political" so much as "intolerable," but hey, you view the world as you want. For me, the fact that an Irish writer gets to the dark heart of American culture and hatred so much better than most Americans says far more about us than it does the author.)

Look: by now, it shouldn't be a surprise that I loved a John Connolly book. It's beautifully crafted, it's surprisingly funny, it's genuinely terrifying, it's unputdownable, it's richly detailed and fleshed out. Its characters are brilliant and complex, its plotting satisfying, its mythology rich, its world unnerving and yet instantly recognizable. It's another brilliant entry in the best thriller series in existence, and you should be reading it.


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The Woman in the Woods A Thriller Charlie Parker John Connolly Books Reviews

I have loved most of Connolly's books - even with some clever cultish nonsense - have read them all - rated only one less than "Very Good". But in this book, Connolly went off the tracks with a radical left turn - don't let any of these five star reviewers tell you differently. Haters of the right will love it - no question. And to my great surprise that appears to include Connolly. Maybe he just hates Republicans, or Trump, but if he thinks he can mix political hate talk into a book that we bought for entertainment, he is just wrong.

By making one of his despicable wild characters a Confederate flag lover, he somehow manages to depict persons who believe in the First Amendment, or are Anglo Saxons, or believe in their country (America) as Nazi equivalents. That persons who consider themselves "Patriots" (count me in...I fly a flag...still have my dog tags...believe in my country) are equivalent to the Nazis, bombers of Pearl Harbor, Serb murderers and rapists...conversation with Connolly's hero lead "Patriots built Auschwitz"....

I would never trust that fiction enjoyment could come from another word of Connolly.
I just cannot wait for his stories. He needs to write faster. I care about Charlie, Louis and Angel Jennifer and Sam. And I want to know how they are doing...now...how long do I have to wait for the next one?
Wowza! John Connolly and Charlie Parker [and Angel and Louis and the Fulci Brothers] have never let me down, not since Book One, and here I am with Book Sixteen. I tried to make this one last, I really did, but I failed, and finished in two evenings. What is very true for me is that just one Connolly book makes up for the last four or five awful novels books I’ve struggled through lately.

This is a dark story—Parker’s persona requires that—but not as midnight black as some of the previous books. There is violence as well—it follows Parker like night follows day—but this time it is less graphic, and the more esoteric means of dispatching folks by the marvelously named Pallida Mors alluded to rather than lovingly described. And this time it is Louis who suffers more than Parker, and with reason—Angel is in the hospital, and Louis cannot face the very real prospect of personal grief and loss. Another view of one of Parker’s more enigmatic friends, and beautifully done.

As always, there is more here than unraveling the mystery implied in the title. The secondary tale of Billy Ocean, the nascent white supremacist who loses his Big Red Truck bedecked with Confederate flags is not a red herring. It is also not a left-wing polemic as some reviewers have complained, since anyone with a shred of intelligence living in Maine with its clearly deranged governor would have similar sentiments as Parker and Louis—at the beginning, anyway. The concomitant thread about the secret, dangerous, and in this case, fatal underground railway for abused women and children is also as gripping as the story of the woman in the woods.

The best secondary characters are Max Castin, the sorta-Jewish lawyer who pays Parker to investigate on the basis of a Star of David carved on a tree, and Daniel Weaver, the little boy who wonders who he really is, and who calls him on his toy telephone. Both these characters are well-developed, unique, and likable on many levels. Then there is Pallida Mors, who, as a villain, exhibits some characteristics that are beyond human… very well, she isn’t. That’s one of Connolly’s real gifts no one is a cliché, Good Guys, Bad Guys and Gals, and everyone else in Parker’s arcane world. His plots are also like no other a clever meshing of more or less quotidian lives visited by oddities, ghosts, ghouls, ordinary people with extraordinary secrets, and occasionally, outright horror.

I loved it.

And the Bad Couple of Book Sixteen has escaped...for now.
The Charlie Parker series should be recognized as time defying fiction in the same class as Lord of the Rings and John Connoly should be named in the same breath as Joseph Conrad or Trollope. I am have run out of accolades for this writer. He is simply the best.
I've raved enough about John Connolly over the years that you should know how I feel about him that his writing is stunning and poetic; that his horrors are unmatched, unsettling, and terrifying; that his plotting is strong, but his characters are even better; that, in short, he's one of the best writers working today in the thriller OR horror genres, and that you should be reading him. So is it any surprise that I loved the latest entry in the Charlie Parker series, The Woman in the Woods? No, it's not. But the fact that it's one of the best in the series - if not the best - is no small thing. How many series continue to get better and better as they go? How many series keep improving and topping themselves? How many times can you say that the 16th entry in a series is its best? And yet, here we are.

The plot, as usual, is deceptively simple-sounding a long-buried woman's corpse is discovered in the woods, and Parker is asked to help discover her identity and see to it that she's laid to rest. More importantly, though, he's asked to discover what became of her child, because it's evident that this woman gave birth not long before she died. But Parker is not the only person on this trail, and the other party is leaving a trail of butchered dead in its wake as it hunts down the lead.

The Woman in the Woods does more with the overarching Parker mythology than most, making it a hard book to recommend to non-fans. Indeed, from conversations about The Backers to the health status of Angel, from references to the list of names from The Wrath of Angels to the ongoing questions about Parker's daughter, The Woman in the Woods is partially about the way in which Parker's story is continuing in the background, without his knowledge. (What's more, The Woman in the Woods has heavy, heavy connections to The Fractured Atlas, a knockout horror novella from Connolly's previous short story collection, Night Music Nocturnes Volume 2; it should almost be required reading for those interested in The Woman in the Woods.)

But even if you didn't know about Parker's ongoing saga, The Woman in the Woods delivers everything I love about John Connolly and then some. Are there vague, supernatural horrors that constantly lurk just beyond the edges of the page, suggesting more than is ever confirmed? Is there beautiful, poetic prose that muses on the nature of reality and morality without ever becoming pretentious? Is there the effortless blending of comedic beats and very funny dialogue with the dark tone of Parker's universe? Is there an unflinching look at the darkness and violent inherent to humanity, and the constant grappling with the question of how we can fight such evil? Is there's compelling, effective plotting that unfolds carefully and inexorably? There's all of that and more.

(There is also the ongoing story of Louis's attack upon a truck emblazoned with the Confederate flag, a story that seems to upset people as "political" as opposed to "justified" and "funny," which I found it. Also, any suggestion that this felt forced doesn't consider what it might be like to be a violent, dangerous black man who has been oppressed and dealt with hatred throughout his life who finds a chance to send a message. Nor does it consider that perhaps racism and hatred shouldn't be viewed as "political" so much as "intolerable," but hey, you view the world as you want. For me, the fact that an Irish writer gets to the dark heart of American culture and hatred so much better than most Americans says far more about us than it does the author.)

Look by now, it shouldn't be a surprise that I loved a John Connolly book. It's beautifully crafted, it's surprisingly funny, it's genuinely terrifying, it's unputdownable, it's richly detailed and fleshed out. Its characters are brilliant and complex, its plotting satisfying, its mythology rich, its world unnerving and yet instantly recognizable. It's another brilliant entry in the best thriller series in existence, and you should be reading it.