From “a master of the macabre” ( RT Book Reviews ), private investigator Charlie Parker is unwittingly drawn into a world of vengeance. New York Times bestselling author John Connolly pits Parker against two separate—but vitally connected—investigations, which prove to be among the most complicated of his entire career.

In The Sisters Strange , criminal Raum Buker arrives in Portland, only for a shocking act of theft to threaten not only his own existence but those of his former lovers—the enigmatic sisters Strange.

And in the title novel, The Furies , Parker must protect two women under threat as Portland shuts down in the face of a global pandemic. Unbeknownst to him, however, these clients are more capable of taking care of themselves than anyone could have imagined.

The Book Grocer Bookclub selection this month. I have 2 books to read before this one so it's off to my BGBC partner until she finishes it!

Thanks Jean-Sol

I feel a bit ambivalent about these two short Charlie Parker novels, The Sisters Strange and The Furies. I have not read any Charlie Parker novels before so was not sure what to expect. I did like the Charlie Parker character, he was like able and interesting. The Strange sisters were quite strange and were having an affair with a dangerous criminal and Parker is trying to work out what he is up to. The second novel the Furies is a bit stranger, with two violent men blackmailing a woman whose husband was an accountant for an underworld organized crime gang, and they have taken her dead daughters momentos and she asks Parker to find them for her.

To be passed onto fellow bookcrosser Jean-Sol

Book is back with me, thank you kkslibrary! I will get started as soon as I have finished my current read.

Finished it but it didn't really work for me. Too formulaic and cliche. Ready to travel to another reader who will hopefully be more enthusiastic than me!