JC's best written book ( of the Parker Series)
Horribly undervalued. ( )

Didn't finish - too much happening and I couldn't get back into it.

Although an above average narrative, I did not like this book quite as much as the others. The ending was interesting. You do need to read the short story that is between Black Angel and Unquiet. ( )

Charlie Parker returns to find the truth about a missing psychiatrist and finds that truth is easier to spell than to seek it out. ( )

I found this book at Edinburgh Airport on my way home to Germany and I was really happy to have a good book for the journey. Connolly has written an excellent addition to the Charlie Parker series and thanks to this book, my journey home sped by as I was engrossed and gripped by the story.

Years earlier, a respected child psychologist called Dr Daniel Clay, who specialised in child abuse cases, disappeared after being accused of child abuse himself. His daughter, Rebecca Clay, considers him dead but now someone is stalking her and demanding to know where her father is. Frank Merrick's daughter went missing after being evaluated by Dr Clay and now that he is out of prison, Merrick wants to talk to Clay about what happened to his daughter. But he doesn't believe Rebecca when she says he is dead so she is forced to hire Charlie Parker to make Merrick go away.

Parker's marriage meanwhile is dead in the water and his wife & daughter have moved to Vermont. So he takes Clay's case as a way to distract himself from his worsening domestic situation. But as he delves deeper and deeper into the situation, he realises that this is not a simple case of harassment by Merrick. In fact, he begins to uncover a wide child abuse conspiracy reaching into the high levels of Maine society...

My only one complaint is that there is not much of Angel and Louis in the story. They appear only towards the end as during most of the book, they are on a "wine trip in California".

Still a great addition to the Charlie Parker series. Highly recommended! ( )