Dark Hollow

John Connolly is author of the Charlie Parker mysteries, The Book of Lost Things, the Samuel Johnson novels for young adults and, with his partner, Jennifer Ridyard, co-author of the Chronicles of the Invaders. John Connolly's debut - EVERY DEAD THING - introduced the character of Private Investigator Charlie Parker, and swiftly launched him right into the front rank of thriller writers. All his subsequent novels have been Sunday Times bestsellers. He was the winner of the 2016 CWA Short Story Dagger for On the Anatomization of an Unknown Man (1637) by Frans Mier from NIGHT MUSIC: Nocturnes Vol 2.

In 2007 he was awarded the Irish Post Award for Literature. He was the first non-American writer to win the US Shamus award and the first Irish writer to win an Edgar award. BOOKS TO DIE FOR, which he edited with Declan Burke, was the winner of the 2013 Anthony, Agatha and Macavity awards for Best Non-Fiction work.

Classic American detective fiction ... and of a very high order -- Bernard Cornwell, Mail on Sunday Connolly's evocative prose and sharp one-liners make it oddly akin to poetry -- Independent Despite the gore, this second novel is subtler and more complex than the best-selling EVERY DEAD THING. Connolly's lyrical language and occasional mystical passages are reminiscent of James Lee Burke. His hero ... is developing into a credible and sympathetic personality -- Sunday Telegraph ... a dark sense of foreboding from the opening pages should will and chill Connolly's considerable fan-base through this second novel at great pace... Killer imagery is his secret weapon -- Sunday Business Post, Dublin DARK HOLLOW is a frightening, disturbing and brutal tale interspersed with great moments of dark humour -- Yorkshire Evening Press Connolly is not an easy author to pigeonhole. He is his own man: an original and exuberant story-teller, as he proves once more with this enjoyable book -- Scotland on Sunday Atmospheric, compulsive and deeply upsetting, [DARK HOLLOW] mark(s) the appearance of a writer whose star is most definitely in the ascendancy -- Manchester Metro