The Wolf in Winter

The next pulse-pounding thriller in John Connolly's internationally bestselling 'Charlie Parker' series. The community of Prosperous, Maine, has always thrived when others have suffered. Its inhabitants are wealthy, its children's future is secure. It guards its own. At the heart of Prosperous lie the ruins of an ancient church, transported stone by stone from England centuries earlier by the founders of the town. But the death of a homeless man and the disappearance of his daughter...
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The next pulse-pounding thriller in John Connolly's internationally bestselling 'Charlie Parker' series. The community of Prosperous, Maine, has always thrived when others have suffered. Its inhabitants are wealthy, its children's future is secure. It guards its own. At the heart of Prosperous lie the ruins of an ancient church, transported stone by stone from England centuries earlier by the founders of the town. But the death of a homeless man and the disappearance of his daughter draw the haunted, lethal private investigator Charlie Parker to Prosperous. Parker is a dangerous man, driven by compassion, by rage, and by the desire for vengeance. In him, the town and its protectors sense a threat graver than any they have faced in their long history, and in the comfortable, sheltered inhabitants of the small town, Parker will encounter his most vicious opponents yet. Charlie Parker has been marked to die so that Prosperous may survive... Prosperous, and the secret beneath its ruins...