John Connolly
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Audio Tape ISIS (2003) |
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Bad Men
In 1693, the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed to their enemies and slaughtered. Since then, the island has known three hundred years of peace.
Until now. Men are descending on Sanctuary to hunt down and kill the wife of their leader and retrieve the money that she stole from him. All that stands in their way are a young rookie officer, Sharon Macy, and the island’s strange, troubled policeman, the Melancholy Joe Dupree. But Joe Dupree is no ordinary policeman.
He is the guardian of the island’s secrets. He knows that Sanctuary will tolerate the shedding of innocent blood no longer. But the band of killers is set to desecrate Sanctuary and unleash the fury of its ghosts. All hell is about to break loose ...
Hayward Morse trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where he was awarded the Silver Medal. He has since worked in regional theatres in Britain, the USA and Canada. His appearances include roles in the musicals Canterbury Tales and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance opposite Alan Bates in the Broadway production of Butley.
Unabridged:
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 13 hrs 10 mins
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Every Dead Thing
The Travelling Man is on the move. Few will survive the journey.
Former New York detective Charlie Parker was drunk when the Travelling Man operated on his wife and daughter. The Travelling Man is an artist of death, making human bodies his canvas and taking faces as his prize. And now another girl is missing...
Dogged by terror and driven by rage, through the swamps of America’s darkest underbelly, Parker pursues a man and his revenge only to discover that, sometimes, nothing is more shocking than the truth.
‘Superb characterisation, chilling, thought-provoking - a terrific thriller’ Mirror
Jeff Harding was born in Massachusetts, U.S.A.
He has worked extensively in television, with recent roles in The Fast Show and Trail of Guilt. Jeff also played Father Buzz Cagney in Father Ted. Jeff has appeared in feature films including Tomorrow Never Dies.
Unabridged:
12 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 16 hrs 15 mins
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The White Road
In South Carolina, a young black man faces the death penalty for the rape and murder of the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the state. It’s a case nobody wants to touch, a case with its roots in old evil, and old evil is private detective Charlie Parker’s speciality.
But Parker is about to enter a living nightmare, haunted by the murderous spectre of a hooded woman, a black car waiting for a passenger that never comes, and by the complicity of both friends and enemies in the events surrounding the death. This is not an investigation. This is a confrontation with dark forces, threatening everything Parker holds dear: his lover, his unborn child, even his soul.
Paul Birchard comes from Los Angeles. His work in movies and television includes The Tailor of Panama, Memphis Belle, Poirot, Absolute Hell, Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and many others. His solo stage performance of The Pat Hobby Stones by F. Scott Fitzgerald has garnered rave reviews in Dublin, London, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and he counts himself very fortunate to have worked with the late Lindsay Anderson on the play The Fishing Trip. Paul has read numerous stories and novels for BBC Radio, as well as unabridged audio books.
Unabridged:
12 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 13 hrs 45 mins
About The Author
John Connolly was born in Dublin in 1968 and is a regular contributor to The Irish Times. He has travelled extensively in the United States.
Connolly was chosen by the Sunday Times as one of the four most promising new talents for 1999. Heralded as an author with great promise, John Connolly burst onto the international literary scene in 1999 with the publication of Every Dead Thing. In this country the book went straight onto the Sunday Times bestseller list in both hardcover and paperback. In Ireland the book was also a bestseller and the Americans, who bought it for $1 million (a record advance for a first novel by an Irish writer) , published to massive critical acclaim.
John was a journalist working at the Irish Times when the book was written and accepted for publication. He conducted an enormous amount of research in America where the novel is set, making settings, idioms, procedures and characters authentic.
The question always asked is can an author produce a second novel to match the first?
John Connolly answers that question in the affirmative with Dark Hollow. Connolly has refined his already apparent skills, concentrated his plot line, developed his leading characters and created a villain whose menace is well equal to the awesome Travelling Man in Everydead Thing.
Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.
Bad Men
(ISIS,
2003)
Every Dead Thing
(ISIS,
2003)
(Charlie 'Bird' Parker)
The White Road
(ISIS,
2002)
(Charlie 'Bird' Parker)
Bad Men
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