The triple threat

Not every writer can handle different genres but John Connolly straddles them with ease, his fiction - Book of Lost Things, sci-fi - The Gates and the Charlie Parker series - mystery/thriller with more horror than I would normally read are all excellent. Yes folks I just finished The Whisperers. Here's the review.

PI Charlie Parker has just got his license back. Hired by Bennett Patchett to investigate the suicide of Patchett's son Damien. Parker discovers a pattern of suicides all leading back to the Stryker C unit, a looted museum in Iraq and an artifact from the cradle of civilization that could make Pandora's box look like a picnic hamper. Parker's looking for answers, the Collector and a man called Herod seek the artifact or could it be a prison.

Not only is this a first class thriller, it has some interesting things to say about how returning soldiers are treated especially when the injury isn't visible to the naked eye.