02169cam a2200409 i 4500 1273669469 TxAuBib 20240517120000.0 231021s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781668022313 hardcover 1668022311 hardcover TxAuBib rda eng eng Connolly, John, 1968-, author. The instruments of darkness : a novel / John Connolly. First Emily Bestler Books/Atria hardcover edition. New York, NY : Emily Bestler Books/Atria, 2024. ©2024. 500 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Charlie Parker stories ; 21 In Maine, Colleen Clark stands accused of the worst crime a mother can commit: the abduction and possible murder of her child. Everyone--ambitious politicians in an election season, hardened police, ordinary folk--has an opinion on the case, and most believe she is guilty. But most is not all. Defending Colleen is the lawyer Moxie Castin, and working alongside him is the private investigator Charlie Parker, who senses the tale has another twist, one involving a husband too eager to accept his wife's guilt, a group of fascists arming for war, a disgraced psychic seeking redemption, and an old, twisted house deep in the Maine woods, a house that should never have been built. A house, and what dwells beneath. -- Provided by publisher. 20240517. Parker, Charlie "Bird" (Fictitious character) Fiction. Private investigators Fiction. Kidnapping Fiction. Murder Fiction. Mother and child Fiction. Maine Fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) lcgft Detective and mystery fiction. fast Legal fiction (Literature.) lcgft Paranormal fiction. lcgft Charlie Parker stories ; 21.