Book review: A Song Of Shadows

By John Connolly

The latest in Dublin-born Connolly’s Charlie Parker series starts with the private eye recovering from a gun attack that almost killed him and, by the end of more than 400 pages of this dark thriller, he is not much better off.

With the sort of luck that has kept him in cases for more than a decade, Parker’s move to a small town in the US state of Maine to recuperate coincides with a series of brutal murders which seem to have their beginnings back in the horrors of World War II.