John Connolly Books in Order

In Maine’s Kennebec River Valley, the body of a runaway from a troubled-teens school is pulled from the water while a local girl disappears and is feared dead. Parker must connect the cases and end two evils, one rooted in abuse and one disturbingly ancient.

Parker is hired when artist Zetta Nadeau’s boyfriend vanishes after sending a single text that simply says RUN. The trail reveals his role in abducting four children from Mexico, a cartel boss who wants them back, and a terrifying mother figure at the heart of the Children of Eve.

In rural Maine, Colleen Clark is accused of abducting and murdering her young daughter, and almost everyone believes she is guilty. Parker joins lawyer Moxie Castin to investigate, uncovering a manipulative husband, a nest of armed extremists, and an old house steeped in malevolence.

A companion to Nocturnes and Night Music, this collection offers nine new supernatural stories, including fresh Caxton Library adventures, alongside an extended essay on the cult film Horror Express. Haunted houses, war criminals, grieving parents, and uncanny artworks share the stage.

Years after The Book of Lost Things, grieving mother Ceres keeps vigil beside her comatose daughter and is drawn to an old house tied to David’s story. Crossing into Elsewhere, she must navigate witches, dryads, tyrants, and her own guilt to find a way back.

This volume pairs two linked Charlie Parker novels. In one, Parker investigates a dangerous ex-con obsessed with two enigmatic sisters and a cache of rare coins; in the other, he protects a mobster’s widow and her children from former accomplices who want their money back.

A short companion focused on Connolly’s haunted detective, this work sketches Charlie Parker’s history, key relationships, and the blend of crime and supernatural forces that shape his cases, serving as an accessible introduction to the long-running series.

Louis and Angel take center stage when four friends are butchered in a torture house linked to Balkan war criminals. Their search for vengeance leads from Amsterdam’s canals to the Danube, where old atrocities, blood debts, and a brutal Serbian crime family collide.

A massive anthology and history in one volume, Shadow Voices surveys three centuries of Irish genre writing, from Gothic tales and crime stories to science fiction and romance. Connolly introduces more than sixty authors, arguing for a richer, less snobbish view of literature.

A comic Samuel Johnson tale, this short story follows the Monks of Appalling Dreadfulness, the most feared assassins in the Multiverse. Hired to kill the demon Nurd and everyone he cares about, they discover that friendship and unlikely allies make their job much harder.

Set at the beginning of Parker’s career, this prequel finds him drifting through rural Arkansas in 1999, chasing faint leads on his family’s killer. There he is drawn into the investigation of murdered Black women in a town eager to bury the crimes for financial gain.

Following the events of The Woman in the Woods, Parker pursues the murderous Quayle and his ally across the US and Europe. As linked sacrifices accumulate around an occult text called The Fractured Atlas, Parker must stop a ritual meant to reshape the world.

After a woman’s body is found in a shallow forest grave, it is clear she died giving birth and that her child survived. Parker’s attempt to trace her past tangles with a ruthless lawyer, his inhuman accomplice, and a mysterious book coveted by people who are not entirely human.

When solitary clerk Mr Berger witnesses what looks like Anna Karenina’s death replayed on a quiet English railway line, he follows the mystery to a hidden library where beloved literary characters live on. The discovery changes his life and blurs the line between reader and story.

Part film criticism and part memoir, this short non-fiction work explores the 1972 horror movie Horror Express and why it lodged so deeply in Connolly’s imagination. Along the way he reflects on nostalgia, collaboration, and his relationship with his late father.

A genre-bending novel about comedy, fame, and friendship, this book reimagines the life of Stan Laurel in old Hollywood. Told in fragments and memories, it follows his partnership with Oliver Hardy, the cost of making people laugh, and the quiet final years of a once-famous man.

On a covert assignment for the FBI, Parker searches for a missing private investigator whose cases all circle a secretive New England family. His hunt collides with the Brethren, a murderous clan that uses the dead themselves as weapons against anyone who opposes them.

A companion volume for longtime readers, this miscellany gathers essays, story notes, character sketches, timelines, and other curiosities about the Charlie Parker novels, offering background on the cases, recurring villains, and the strange cosmology that runs through the series.

This work of investigative nonfiction, co-written with James Patterson and Tim Malloy, explores the rise, crimes, and legal escape routes of financier Jeffrey Epstein. Drawing on records and interviews, it traces how money and influence shielded him and how his case finally unraveled.

The final Chronicles of the Invaders novel finds Syl, Paul, and their allies facing both the Illyri Empire and the shadowy Others who manipulate it. War, betrayal, and hard choices determine the fate of Earth and the wider galaxy they have come to know.

Ex-con Jerome Burnel believes he was framed and begs Parker to clear his name. After Burnel vanishes, Parker follows his trail to an isolated West Virginia community called the Cut, ruled by brutal men who serve a terrifying figure known only as the Dead King.

In this playful Caxton Library story, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson arrive at a secret archive where fictional characters live side by side. Their presence, and a conversation with Professor Moriarty, creates headaches for Arthur Conan Doyle and questions about who really controls a story.

Recovering from near-fatal injuries in the seaside town of Boreas, Parker befriends a reserved widow and her daughter. When men with Nazi pasts converge on the area, he uncovers crimes rooted in a wartime camp and learns that his quiet refuge is anything but safe.

A homeless man’s death draws Parker to Prosperous, a wealthy, insular town that has somehow thrived while others falter. Beneath its neat church and ancient buildings lurks a much older god, and the community will sacrifice anything to keep its pact, including Parker’s life.

Exiled from Earth, Syl and Paul are separated and drawn deep into Illyri space. Training with the deadly Nairene Sisterhood and confronting a hidden species known as the Others, they uncover the terrible secret behind the empire that rules both humans and Illyri.

War-scarred investigator Lionel Soter is hired to trace a missing English gentleman whose accounts show an enormous payment for a single occult book. His search for the fabled Atlas of Unknown Realms leads from a decaying country house to sinister book dealers and something truly unearthly.

In Samuel’s third adventure, a sinister toyshop opens in Biddlecombe just as strange shadows gather over the town. When a new threat to the Multiverse emerges, Samuel, Boswell, Nurd, and an assortment of dwarfs, policemen, and polite monsters must once again stop the end of everything.

Earth has been conquered by the alien Illyri, who bring peace and technology along with occupation and conscription. Syl Hellais, the first Illyri born on Earth, and human rebel Paul Kerr are thrown together when a chance encounter forces both to question their loyalties.

Deep in the Maine woods lies the wreckage of a plane that never made the news and a ledger naming those who once hunted Parker. As rival factions race to control the list, Parker pursues a survivor, a ruined woman, and a child who may not be what she seems.

Co-edited with Declan Burke, this nonfiction anthology gathers essays from more than a hundred crime writers about the mystery novels they love most. It is part reading list, part memoir, and a wide-ranging tour through the history of crime fiction.

Still infamous for foiling a demonic invasion, Samuel is dragged into Hell along with Boswell, two policemen, and an ice-cream-truck driver by a vengeful devil. To escape the Infernals’ realm, they must outwit demons, treacherous dwarfs, and the bureaucracy of the underworld.

In a small coastal town, a teenage girl disappears and suspicion falls on a reclusive neighbor living under a new identity after a youthful crime. Parker is hired to protect him, but soon realizes the man’s buried past is tied to fresh violence and an older, bloodier story.

Iraq War veterans running a smuggling ring on the Maine–Canada border think they are moving stolen antiquities for profit and to help fellow soldiers. Instead they have unleashed an ancient, whispering presence, forcing Parker into a deadly alliance with the Collector.

Suspended and under investigation, Parker turns away from new cases to probe his own father’s mysterious suicide. The trail leads back to a long-ago shooting in a bar, a secretive federal squad, and a revelation about why Parker attracts darkness in the first place.

Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund Boswell go trick-or-treating a few days early and stumble on their neighbors’ attempt to summon demons for fun. Instead they open a gateway to Hell, leaving it to Samuel, some eccentric allies, and a bit of physics to save the world.

This time the spotlight falls on Louis and Angel, elite killers whose past service for a shadowy employer has made them enemies. When a ruthless rival and a vengeful land baron launch a campaign to wipe them out, Parker and other allies join a savage last stand.

Parker is hired by the daughter of a disgraced child psychiatrist who vanished after abuse allegations destroyed his career. As he digs into decades of missing children, vengeful parents, and political cover-ups, Parker discovers that some ghosts refuse to stay buried.

In this dark novella, two London detectives travel to the quiet town of Underbury to investigate disturbing disappearances. They find a community drained of its men, a coven at its center, and a chillingly intimate form of witchcraft that feeds on fear and desire.

Twelve-year-old David, grieving his mother’s death in wartime England, slips through a gap in a garden wall into a land shaped by broken fairy tales. To find a way home, he must face twisted stories, a cruel Crooked Man, and his own grief.

When the heroin-addicted girlfriend of Louis’s cousin vanishes, Parker’s search moves from New York’s streets to an old monastery in Eastern Europe. There he finds a murderous cult, a relic tied to a fallen angel, and clues to the darker design behind his own life.

In this novella, Parker investigates an abandoned house once owned by a child killer after a photograph of an unknown girl appears in its empty mailbox. What begins as a favor becomes a confrontation with a malign presence that may not be entirely human.

Connolly’s first collection of short fiction gathers ghost stories, dark fables, and novellas. Lost children, predatory demons, and vengeful spirits share the page with The Underbury Witches and The Reflecting Eye, a key Charlie Parker tale that links the novels to this supernatural side.

On a Maine island once known as Sanctuary, police officer Melancholy Joe Dupree shelters a battered woman and her young son from a vengeful gangster. As a band of killers closes in, the island’s bloody history and restless ghosts rise to defend their own.

A plea for help pulls Parker to the American South, where a Black man faces death row for killing the white girl who accused him of rape. As tensions rise, Parker uncovers buried racial violence, old family sins, and a conspiracy determined to keep its secrets hidden.

Parker is hired to look into the apparent suicide of a young woman whose father refuses to believe she jumped. His inquiry uncovers a long-vanished religious community, a modern cult called the Fellowship, and a spider-obsessed assassin who turns the case into a bloodbath.

Trying to rebuild his life in rural Maine, Parker is drawn into the search for a missing mother and child. The case leads to a brutal ex-con, buried crimes in the backwoods, and a legendary killer whose shadow reaches back into Parker’s own past.

Former NYPD detective Charlie Parker is shattered when his wife and daughter are murdered while he drinks in a bar. Hunting a sadistic killer known as the Traveling Man, he follows a trail from New York to New Orleans through mob wars, haunted bayous, and older evils.