NYPD detective Charlie Parker's wife and daughter are mutilated and murdered. Trying to get his life together, he resigns from the department and his former partner asks him to find a young woman who has disappeared. She had been dating a minor drug pusher who is the step-son of a woman Charlie's partner knows from charity work. Charlie learns that the woman was from a town called Haven and travels there. He learns that the town is … more
read a lot of thrillers every year, and Every Dead Thing is one of the darkest I've ever encountered. Having sampled later entries in the Charlie Parker series, I became curious about the traumatic event that shattered his life, the horrendous murders of his wife and daughter. I got more than I bargained for. This intro to the series opens with that event, and "grisly" doesn't begin to describe the scene. There are no leads, and six months later, Parker, having resigned from his … more