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Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Stark's antihero Parker attempts to retrieve money he had to leave in an amusement park, but the money is gone. He enlists Alan Grofield to assist, but when Grofield is taken hostage, Parker assembles a private army to get him back and rob the mob blind at the same time.
2) The jugger
Author
Series
Publisher
Allison and Busby
Pub. Date
1986, c1965
Physical Desc
159 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Not many men knew what Parker did for a living, because what he did was steal. But Joe Sheer, a retired safecracker-known in the business as a jugger-knew. He knew Parker's alias, his whereabouts, his plans-and because he knew too much, he knew to keep his mouth shut. Or die. But Joe was more than ready to trade what he knew for a soft mattress, windows without bars on them, and what every man needs-his freedom. So Parker had come to Nebraska to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
©1990
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When an elderly woman who was devoted to cryonic suspension dies suspiciously, her estranged daughter questions the death. But private detective and former coroner Dr. Eric Parker wonders if the daughter is just out to change the terms of her mother's will.
Author
Series
Publisher
Intrigue Press
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
202 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Charlie's last case left her tired and emotionally drained, so her office staff convinces her to vacation in Kauai. Charlie is riding in a helicopter when she and the pilot spot a dead body lying on the rugged rocks of Kauai's NaPali coast. Mack Garvey, the owner of the helicopter tour company, is accused of the murder. Charlie wants to avoid the whole mess but is persuaded to help Garvey prove his innocence. As the tension builds, Charlie roots out...
5) Comeback
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
291 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the bloodbath of Butcher's Moon, the action-filled blowout Parker adventure, Donald Westlake said, "Richard Stark proved to me that he had a life of his own by simply disappearing. He was gone." And for nearly twenty-five years, he stayed away, while readers waited. But nothing bad is truly gone forever, and Parker's as bad as they come. According to Westlake, one day in 1997, "suddenly, he came back from the dead, with a chalky prison pallor"-and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Intrigue Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
195 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sharon Ortega, an old school chum of Charlie's, hires Charlie to prove that her dead restaurant partner, David, didn't commit suicide. David's recent, keyman life insurance policy won't pay for suicide, and Sharon needs the money to keep the business going. Charlie uncovers evidence of tax fraud, high level political connections, and two distinctly different sides to David's life. Amidst a confusion of relatives, she also discovers that members of...
7) Backflash
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the publication of Butcher's Moon in 1974, Donald Westlake said, "Richard Stark proved to me that he had a life of his own by simply disappearing. He was gone." And readers waited. But nothing bad is truly gone forever, and Parker's as bad as they come. According to Westlake, one day in 1997, "suddenly, he came back from the dead, with a chalky prison pallor"-and the novels that followed showed that neither Parker nor Stark had lost a step....
8) Cry Dance
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
354 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
If there's one thing that Bureau of Indian Affairs Investigator Emmett Quanah Parker knows, it's that the dead don't always stay dead. When the corpse of a woman, brutally murdered and bizarrely mutilated, is discovered on Havasupai Nation land, Parker is paired with FBI Special Agent Anna Turnipseed in a hastily assembled task force of two. The two share a mixed Native American ancestry—and little else. As they are pulled deeper into a complex...
10) Flashfire
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Between Parker's 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the world of crime changed considerably. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst of all, money had gone digital-the days of cash-stuffed payroll trucks were long gone. But cash isn't everything, and now Parker's after a fortune in jewels. In Flashfire, Parker's in West Palm Beach,...
11) Spirit sickness
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
354 p. : ill., 1 map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
As BIA Investigator Emmett Quanah Parker and FBI Special Agent Anna Turnipseed investigate the murder of a tribal patrolman and his wife on the Navajo reservation, another murder occurs, making "it clear that an inhumanly cunning mind is at work, weaving personal madness with a complex mix of Navajo mythology and superstition."--Jacket.
12) Ancient ones
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
326 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A greedy fossil hunter uncovers human remains in an Oregon river valley that prove to be the oldest bones on record and suggest Caucasian descent, igniting a war among Native Americans, the U.S. Army, the scientific community, and the Norse Folk Congress.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
443 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When John Connolly burst upon the literary suspense scene in 1999, he was an immediate international sensation. His Every Dead Thing became an instantaneous best-seller in England, and here in America, his writing was greeted with extraordinary accolades. He won the prestigious Shamus Award for Best First Private Eye Novel, and, as the San Francisco Examiner wrote, "John Connolly's tale is as riveting and chilling as Thomas Harris's The Silence of...
14) Firebreak
Author
Series
Publisher
Warner Books/Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
297 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Between Parker's 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the world of crime changed considerably. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst of all, money had gone digital-the days of cash-stuffed payroll trucks were long gone. Firebreak takes Parker to a palatial Montana "hunting lodge" where a dot-com millionaire hides a gallery of stolen...
15) Breakout
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A master thief must build a team to escape a correctional center in this fast-paced, hard-boiled crime novel by the author of Firebreak.
With Parker locked up and about to be unmasked, Breakout follows his Houdini-like escape from prison with a team of convicts. But when a new heist and new dangers-con artists, snitches, busybodies, eccentrics, and cops-loom among the dark alleys and old stone buildings of the big city to which they've fled, Parker...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
FBI Agent Anna Turnipseed, a Modoc Indian from California, and Bureau of Indian Affairs Investigator Emmett Parker, a Comanche from Oklahoma, are a team, sent by the Feds wherever there are problems in tribal territory. This assignment takes them to upstate New York where an elder of the Oneida tribe was found dead, every major bone in her body shattered. Their investigation puts them in the middle of a race war, and soon their lives depend on their...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
392 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Internationally bestselling author John Connolly takes readers into the dark world of private detective Charlie Parker, whose deadly fight against evil begins when the daughter of a South Carolina millionaire is raped and murdered.
In South Carolina, a young black man faces the death penalty for the rape and murder of Marianne Larousse, daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the state. It's a case that nobody wants to touch, a case with its roots...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
363 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Badly wounded and estranged from his partner and love interest, Anna Turnipseed, Emmett Parker has come home. After thirteen years of federal law enforcement assignments that took him to every Indian nation but his own, the veteran investigator for the Bureau of Indian Affairs has finally arrived in Oklahoma on convalescent leave. At once a son of the Nuhmuhnuh (“the People,” as the Comanche call themselves) and a government investigator, he has...
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English
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"Lots of bleak fun . . . This stellar series just gets better and better." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
The saga begins with a poker game gone lethally awry. When Parker goes in on a messy scam-stealing an armored car-with someone he barely knows, as usual the amateurs get in the way of the job. From a nervous ex-con and his well-intentioned sister to a bank manager's two-timing wife and a beautiful, relentless cop, too many people have...
20) The black angel
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
488 p. ; 24 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.).
Language
English
Description
Detective Charlie Parker returns in The Black Angel, the sixth thriller by acclaimed New York Times bestselling author John Connolly.
The Black Angel begins with the mysterious abduction of a young woman. Intrigued by the case, Charlie Parker's longtime friend and professional killer, Louis, begins a solo search for the girl. The ties of friendship inevitably draw Parker into the search, as he soon discovers that the girl's disappearance is linked...
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