Every Dead Thing

By John Connolly

Summary:

Haunted by the unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter, and tormented by his sense of guilt, former NYPD detective Charlie Parker is a man consumed by violence, regret and the desire for revenge.

But when his ex-partner asks him to track down a missing girl, Parker embarks on an odyssey that is to lead him to the heart of organized crime; to an old black woman who dwells by a Louisiana swamp and hears the voices of the dead; to cellars of torture and murder; and to a serial killer unlike any other, an artist who uses the human body as his canvas and takes faces as his prize, the killer known only as the Traveling Man. [Summary from https://www.johnconnollybooks.com/every-dead-thing]

Group Review/Comments:

Thumbs Up: 3

Gruesome, bloody, but very well written,
There was a line that gave it away for one reader

Flashbacks—so sad.

Complex book

Felt like a story within a story but well written

Thumbs down: (sorry, seem to have deleted number)

Felt like too many different books

Serial killer introduction felt disjointed; lots of it felt disjointed

The protagonist didn’t look at the obvious places for connections.

Lots felt predictable, some cliché’s

Thumbs in the middle: 1

Good writing but too much wrong with the story

Would have been better as (at least) two books