About the Book Darkly brilliant and intuitive private detective Charlie Parker returns in the next thrilling installment of Connollys New York Times-bestselling series. Book Synopsis New York Times bestselling author John Connolly writes an unfailingly compelling ( New Orleans Times-Picayune ) and lyrical tale that forces Private Investigator Charlie Parker to examine his haunting past and all that he has ever believed true about his beloved parents--and himself. Charlie Parker is a lost soul. Deprived of his private investigators license and under scrutiny by the police, Parker takes a job in a Portland bar. But he uses his enforced retirement to begin a different kind of investigation: an examination of his own past and an inquiry into the death of his father, who took his own life after apparently shooting dead two unarmed teenagers. Its a search that will eventually lead Parker to question all that he believed about his beloved parents, and about himself. But there are other forces at work: a troubled young woman who is running from an unseen threat, one that has already taken the life of her boyfriend; and a journalist-turned-writer named Mickey Wallace, who is conducting an investigation of his own. And haunting the shadows, as they have done throughout Parkers life, are two figures: a man and a woman who seem driven to bring an end to Charlie Parkers existence. Haunting, lyrical, and impossible to put down, The Lovers is John Connolly at his best. About the Author John Connolly is the author of the #1 internationally bestselling Charlie Parker thrillers series, The Book of Lost Things and its sequel The Land of Lost Things , the Samuel Johnson Trilogy for younger readers, and (with Jennifer Ridyard) the Chronicles of the Invaders series. He lives in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, see his website at JohnConnollyBooks.com, or follow him on Twitter @JConnollyBooks.