New York Occasions bestselling author John Connolly brings his “visionary make of neo-noir” (The Irish Occasions) to the “riveting and chilling” (San Francisco Examiner) Charlie Parker thriller about brand-new secrets buried and old secrets unearthed.

There are some truths so terrible that they should not be spoken aloud. Here is one particular truths: after three hours, the abduction of a kid is regularly treated as a homicide.

When a gal disappears from a little Maine town, her neighbor-a recluse on the subject of Burning up Soul named Randall Haight-starts receiving anonymous letters which contain tormenting references to a different teenage gal, murdered long ago. For many years, Randall has kept a secret: when he was fourteen, he was convicted of killing that female. Now, his former life has returned to haunt him, and he hires personal detective Charlie Parker to make it disappear completely. However in a city built on blood and shadowed by older ghosts, where way too many from the living are concealing secrets, days gone by can’t be dismissed so conveniently. As Parker unravels a twisted, violent history concerning a doomed mobster and his foes, the police, as well as the FBI, his search returns again and again to Randall Haight. Because Randall continues to be telling is situated…