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The Burning Soul

by John Connolly
Atria: S. & S. (Charlie Parker Thrillers). Sept. 2011. c.416p. ISBN 9781439165270. $26. F
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Private investigator Charlie Parker (The Whisperers) returns in this complicated, multilayered suspense novel with a touch of horror. He is hired to help Randall Haight, who is being blackmailed for a past crime in which he and a friend as teenagers were convicted of killing a 14-year-old girl. On his release as an adult, Haight was given a new name and set himself up as a tax accountant in the small Maine town of Pastor's Bay. But with the disappearance of a local 14-year-old girl, Haight wants to protect his new life and asks Parker to find the blackmailers. To further complicate matters, there are others in Pastor's Bay who are not who they seem to be, and Parker finds himself deeply embroiled in the town's secrets.
VERDICT This is more a detective story than a horror novel, but Connolly's plot twists are still sure to please his fans.
Reviewed by Lisa Hanson O'Hara, Univ. of Manitoba Libs., Winnipeg , Sep 01, 2011
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