Tales from the dark side

Crime has definitely paid for John Connolly, who has sold over 10m books. He talks murder with Richard Fitzpatrick

CHARLIE PARKER is back working another case. The Wrath of Angels is John Connolly’s tenth in the Charlie Parker series, excluding a novella.

While out shooting, two old friends track a wounded buck into the bowels of a forest. They happen upon a small plane, half gorged almost by vegetation, with no evidence of any survivors, but with a suitcase stashed with $200,000 and a list of names. The pair makes off with the cash, but it’s the “hinky” list, as Parker would say, that causes all the bother, as its contents trigger a god-awful chase and murder piled on murder.