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John Connolly

1968 - Today

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Dr John Connolly (born 31 May 1968) is an Irish writer who is best known for his series of novels starring private detective Charlie Parker. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Connolly has received more than 57,914 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). John Connolly is the 5,400th most popular writer (down from 5,316th in 2019), the 242nd most popular biography from Ireland (up from 266th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Irish Writer.

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Notable Works

The Unquiet
Private investigators, Charlie "Bird" Parker (Fictitious character), Fiction
2007
Bad Men
Islands, Violence, Fiction
2003
Dark hollow
Fiction, Private investigators, Serial murders
2000
Sporting body, sporting mind
Physical education and training, Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Physical education and training
1984
The killing kind
Private investigators, Charlie "Bird" Parker (Fictitious character), Fiction
2001
The Book of Lost Things
Fantasy fiction, Fairy Tales, Trols
High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness. Angry and alone, he takes refuge in his imagination and soon finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a world that is a strange reflection of his own -- populated by heroes and monsters and ruled by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a mysterious book, The Book of Lost Things. Taking readers on a vivid journey through the loss of innocence into adulthood and beyond, New York Times bestselling author John Connolly tells a dark and compelling tale that reminds us of the enduring power of stories in our lives.
2006
Filthy rich
Sex scandals, Capitalists and financiers, Police corruption
2016
Like a Charm
Fiction, Mystery, Short Stories
KARIN SLAUGHTER, MARK BILLINGHAM, LEE CHILD, JOHN CONNOLLY, JOHN HARVEY,LYNDA LA PLANTE, DENISE MINA, PETER ROBINSON - A STUNNING COLLECTION BY CRIME FICTION'S BEST...Desire leaves a man destroyed - a young girl's curiosity reveals secrets better left hidden - an accidental encounter on a train ends violently - ambition leads to a curious exchange - an uncanny likeness changes two lives forever - A novel in sixteen chilling parts, linked by a glittering charm bracelet which brings misfortune to everyone who handles it -In Like A Charm, the cream of British and American crime writers combine for a must-have collection. From nineteenth-century Georgia, where the bracelet is forged in fire, to wartime Leeds, a steam train across Europe, the violent backstreets of 1980s Scotland, present-day London, a Manhattan taxi, the Mojave desert and back to Georgia, each writer weaves a gripping story of murder, betrayal and intrigue.
2003
Inherit the dead
Ex-police officers, Fiction, Mystery & Detective
"TO FIND AN ANGEL, HE MADE A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL. Pericles "Perry" Christo is a PI with a past--a former cop, who lost his badge and his family when a corruption scandal left him broke and disgraced. When wealthy Upper East Side matron Julia Drusilla summons him one cold February night, he grabs what seems to be a straightforward (and lucrative) case. The socialite is looking for her beautiful, aimless daughter, Angelina, who is about to become a very wealthy young woman. But as Christo digs deeper, he discovers there's much more to the lovely "Angel" than meets the eye. Her father, her best friend, her boyfriends all have agendas of their own. Angel, he soon realizes, may be in grave danger. and if Christo gets too close, he just might get caught in the crossfire. This classic noir tale twists and turns down New York's mean streets and along Hamptons' beaches and back roads during a bitterly cold and gray winter where nothing is as it seems and everyone has something to hide. In an inventive storytelling approach, each writer brings his or her distinctive voice to a chapter of Inherit the Dead, building the tension to a shocking, explosive finale"--
2013
The Book of Lost Things
Fantasy fiction, Fairy Tales, Trols
High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness. Angry and alone, he takes refuge in his imagination and soon finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a world that is a strange reflection of his own -- populated by heroes and monsters and ruled by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a mysterious book, The Book of Lost Things. Taking readers on a vivid journey through the loss of innocence into adulthood and beyond, New York Times bestselling author John Connolly tells a dark and compelling tale that reminds us of the enduring power of stories in our lives.
2006
Intention
English Philosophy, Intention (Logic), Logic
"Intention is one of the masterworks of twentieth-century philosophy in English. First published in 1957, it has acquired the state of a modern philophical classic. The book attempts to show to detail that the natural and widely accepted picture of what we mean by an intention gives rise to insoluble problems and must be abandoned. This is a welcome reprint of a book that continues to grow in importance."--BOOK JACKET.
1957
The Wolf in Winter
Private investigators, Fiction, Horror tales
The next pulse-pounding thriller in John Connolly's internationally bestselling Charlie Parker series. The community of Prosperous, Maine has always thrived when others have suffered. Its inhabitants are wealthy, its children’s future secure. It shuns outsiders. It guards its own. And at the heart of Prosperous lie the ruins of an ancient church, transported stone by stone from England centuries earlier by the founders of the town… But the death of a homeless man and the disappearance of his daughter draw the haunted, lethal private investigator Charlie Parker to Prosperous. Parker is a dangerous man, driven by compassion, by rage, and by the desire for vengeance. In him the town and its protectors sense a threat graver than any they have faced in their long history, and in the comfortable, sheltered inhabitants of a small Maine town, Parker will encounter his most vicious opponents yet. Charlie Parker has been marked to die so that Prosperous may survive. Prosperous, and the secret that it hides beneath its ruins…
2014

Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Connolly ranks 5,400 out of 7,302. Before him are Adolf Bartels, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Ring Lardner, Aya Kitō, Elizabeth Hawley, and José Carlos Somoza. After him are William Harrison Ainsworth, Henry Roth, Kang Kyeong-ae, Ibrahim Kuni, Kristin Hannah, and Kārlis Skalbe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, John Connolly ranks 245. Before him are Jorge Larrionda, Gianni Morbidelli, Jaye Davidson, Shelley Lubben, Masanori Suzuki, and Troy Kotsur. After him are Rachael Harris, Stephen Mangan, André Cruz, Laura Leighton, Adam McKay, and Moira Kelly.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, John Connolly ranks 242 out of 549. Before him are Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo (1822), Wolfe Tone (1763), Stuart Townsend (1972), Robert McClure (1807), Domhnall Gleeson (1983), and Charles Haughey (1925). After him are Henry Kellett (1806), Patrick O'Connell (1887), Martin Sheridan (1881), Robert Mallet (1810), Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin (1865), and Tim O'Reilly (1954).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, John Connolly ranks 35. Before him are William Trevor (1928), Colm Tóibín (1955), Richard Steele (1672), Cecil Day-Lewis (1904), Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852), and George Moore (1852). After him are William McGonagall (1825), Michael Scott (1959), Eoin Colfer (1965), Sydney, Lady Morgan (1776), Colum McCann (1965), and Margaret Mazzantini (1961).

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