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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8943210" data-attributes="member: 18">I'm normally a heavy fantasy/SF reader and not a fan or crime or horror or the like but my brother was reading the Charlie Parker novels by John Connolly, and I was interested, so now I'm on book 8. They're pretty weird. They're basically the story of Charlie Parker, not the jazz musician, but an ex-NY detective turned PI, and his sidekicks, Louis and Angel (who are a gay couple, rather progressive for 1996), an ex-hitman and ex-burglar respectively, investigating various serial-killer-y crimes, but in all but one of the books so far there's a supernatural element, anywhere from relatively light where it could be hallucinated to really full-on Abrahamic stuff (esp. after book 4). The books themselves are a weird combination of classic American crime thriller, highly specific regional/historic stuff (particularly about parts of New England and the US, fascinating given the author is Irish and doesn't live in the US - though I believe he visits a lot), surprisingly nuanced discussions of certain issues relating to the crimes, gunfights (often involve fairly wacky guns), and the above supernatural elements, with a sort of &quot;metaplot&quot; about the main character.I've got a whole bunch of books that I want to read, but it's very easy to just switch on the next Charlie Parker book on Audible, and there are like 20+ of them so I may be a while.I did just get The Tyranny of Faith by Richard Swan, which is the sequel to The Justice of Kings, which was for my money the best fantasy novel of 2022, on Kindle so I will start on them probably tonight when I want something to read with my eyes not with my ears lol.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8943210, member: 18"] I'm normally a heavy fantasy/SF reader and not a fan or crime or horror or the like but my brother was reading the [I]Charlie Parker[/I] novels by John Connolly, and I was interested, so now I'm on book 8. They're pretty weird. They're basically the story of Charlie Parker, not the jazz musician, but an ex-NY detective turned PI, and his sidekicks, Louis and Angel (who are a gay couple, rather progressive for 1996), an ex-hitman and ex-burglar respectively, investigating various serial-killer-y crimes, but in all but one of the books so far there's a supernatural element, anywhere from relatively light where it could be hallucinated to really full-on Abrahamic stuff (esp. after book 4). The books themselves are a weird combination of classic American crime thriller, highly specific regional/historic stuff (particularly about parts of New England and the US, fascinating given the author is Irish and doesn't live in the US - though I believe he visits a lot), surprisingly nuanced discussions of certain issues relating to the crimes, gunfights (often involve fairly wacky guns), and the above supernatural elements, with a sort of "metaplot" about the main character. I've got a whole bunch of books that I want to read, but it's very easy to just switch on the next Charlie Parker book on Audible, and there are like 20+ of them so I may be a while. I did just get [I]The Tyranny of Faith[/I] by Richard Swan, which is the sequel to [I]The Justice of Kings[/I], which was for my money the best fantasy novel of 2022, on Kindle so I will start on them probably tonight when I want something to read with my eyes not with my ears lol. [/QUOTE]

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