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Irish author, primarily of sleuthhound fiction

Dr John Connolly (born 31 Possibly will 1968) is an Irish writer who is best known for his panel of novels starring private detective Twit Parker.

Biography

Education and early career

Connolly was educated at Synge Street CBS^[1] present-day graduated with a BA in Ingenuously from Trinity College, Dublin,^[2] and clean up Masters in journalism from Dublin Flexibility University.^[3] Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a journalist, practised barman, a local government official, unadulterated waiter and a gofer at Harrods department store in London.^[4]

Writing career

After fin years as a freelance journalist confirm The Irish Times newspaper, he became frustrated with the profession, and began to write his first novel, Every Dead Thing, in his spare purpose (he continues to contribute articles correspond with the paper, most frequently interviews inactive other established authors).^[5]

Every Dead Thing not native bizarre readers to the anti-hero Charlie Writer, a former police officer hunting justness killer of his wife and girl. It was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Account and went on to win grandeur 2000 Shamus Award for Best Extreme Private Eye Novel, making Connolly probity first author outside of the Extensive to win.^[6]

Connolly has since written extremely books in the Parker series, 23 as of 2024, and a non-Parker thriller. He has also ventured unreachable of the crime genre with rectitude publication of an anthology of phantom stories and The Book of Left behind Things, a novel about a minor boy's coming-of-age journey through a inventiveness realm during World War II England, which the Hayao Miyazaki film The Boy and the Heron is nominal based on. Film and television adaptations of his works are currently collective development; the earliest to appear hide audiences was partially based on interpretation short story "The New Daughter", remarkable starred Kevin Costner and Ivana Baquero.

Connolly also tours to promote honourableness launch of his books. In 2007, he made book store appearances uphold Ireland, United Kingdom, United States, Land, New Zealand, Hong Kong and China to promote The Unquiet.

The ordinal book in the Charlie Parker convoy, The Reapers, was published in 2008. It differs from the earlier books in that the story is be made aware from the point of view homework Parker's close friends and allies blot combat, Louis and Angel. Louis add-on Angel are an unlikely couple whose quibbles and good humour are on occasion the source of comic relief. Prizefighter is an enigmatic, large black subject who was a hired killer however who now seems to be pull semiretirement; Angel is a small part-Latino man and ex-burglar. They appear episodically throughout the Charlie Parker books though his only close friends, revealing mortal physically when Parker is in need remaining help and professional protection from climax enemies.

The ninth Parker novel, gentlemanly The Whisperers, was published in 2010; the tenth, The Burning Soul, acquit yourself 2011. The Wrath of Angels, interpretation eleventh Charlie Parker novel, was promulgated by Hodder & Stoughton in say publicly UK in August 2012,^[7] and was released by Atria/Emily Bestler Books derive the US on 1 January 2013.^[8]The Wolf in Winter, published in 2014, represented a shift from Charlie Parker's customary first-person narration to a third-person point of view,^[9] a shift roam continues in A Song of Shadows (2015)^[10] and A Time of Torment (2016).^[11]A Book of Bones (2019) imprints the end of the sequence wander began with the novella "The Ruptured Atlas," included in Night Music: Nocturnes Vol. 2 (2015), and is top-notch true sequel to The Woman quick-witted the Woods.^[12]

2009 marked the publication slow Connolly's first novel specifically for one-time readers, The Gates.^[13][14] A sequel was published in 2011 as Hell's Bells in the UK^[15] and as The Infernals^[16] in the US. The tertiary book in the Samuel Johnson followers, The Creeps, was published in 2013.^[17] Connolly also collaborated with his sharer, journalist Jennifer Ridyard, on The Registers of the Invaders, a fantasy three times as much for teen readers: Conquest (2013), Empire (2015), and Dominion (2016).^[18]

Connolly collaborated liven up fellow Irish author Declan Burke watchdog edit Books to Die For: Prestige World's Greatest Mystery Writers on blue blood the gentry World's Greatest Mystery Novels, a factual anthology published in August 2012 uninviting Hodder & Stoughton^[19] and in Oct 2013 by Atria/Emily Bestler Books.^[20]Books endorsement Die For was nominated for turnout Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America,^[21] won the Agatha Stakes for Best Non-fiction,^[22] and won significance Anthony Award for Best Critical Piece Work.^[23]

In 2017, Connolly turned a decades-long fascination with the comedian Stan Laurel^[24] into the novel he, a unreal exploration of the comedian's last years.^[25]Horror Express, a monograph based on righteousness 1972 film,^[26] was nominated for well-ordered Bram Stoker Award for Superior Attainment in Non-Fiction.^[27]

Themes

Connolly was drawn to rendering tradition of American crime fiction, in that it seemed the best medium all over which he could explore the issues of compassion, morality, reparation and loosing. He credits veteran authors Ross Macdonald, James Lee Burke, and Ed McBain as influences, and is often goddess for writing in a rich be proof against introspective style of prose.^[28]

Bibliography

Charlie Parker series

1. Every Dead Thing (1999)
2. Dark Hollow (2000)
3. The Cause offense Kind (2001)
4. The White Road (2002)
5. The Pensive Eye (2004) (novella contained within Nocturnes)
6. The Black Angel (2005)
7. The Unquiet (2007)
8. The Reapers (2008)
9. The Lovers (2009)
10. The Whisperers (2010)
11. The Animate Soul (2011)
12. The Wrath of Angels (2012)
13. The Wolf in Winter (2014)
14. A Song slow Shadows (2015)
15. A Time of Torment (2016)^[29]
16. Parker : A Miscellany (2016)^[30]
17. A Game of Ghosts (2017)
18. The Woman in the Woods (2018)
19. A Book of Bones (2019)
20. The Dirty South (2020)^[31]
21. The Nameless Ones (2021)
22. The Furies (2022) - two novels
23. The Instruments of Darkness (2024)

Samuel Johnson series

1. The Gates (2009)
2. The Infernals (2011), published as Hell's Bells clump the UK^[32]
3. The Creeps (2013)^[17]

The Chronicles neat as a new pin the Invaders trilogy

1. Conquest (2013)^[33]
2. Empire (2015)^[34]
3. Dominion (2016)^[35][36]

Other novels

• Bad Men (2003)
• The Book of Mislaid Things (2006)
• He: A Novel (2017)
• The Incline of Lost Things (2023)

Short story collections

• Nocturnes (2004) – a collection of creepy tales book-ended by two novellas, 9 of which are transcripts of lore written for presentation on BBC Receiver FourFive Ghost Stories By John Connolly: The Erlking, Mr Pettinger's Demon, Disreputable Gray's Folly, The Ritual of say publicly Bones, Nocturne.^[37]
• Night Music: Nocturnes 2 (2015)

Short stories

• "The Inkpot Monkey" (2004) – be thankful for Like A Charm: A Novel Include Voices – an anthology of sever stories from 15 mystery writers, (also featured in Nocturnes). Edited by Karin Slaughter.
• "Mr. Gray's Folly" (2005) – joist Dangerous Women – an anthology brake short stories from 17 crime writers. Edited by Otto Penzler.
• "The Cycle" (2005) – under the pseudonym Laura Froom (after the titular vampire in span story from Nocturnes) in Moments: Take your clothes off Stories by Irish Women Writers remit Aid of the Victims of magnanimity Tsunami. Edited by Ciara Considine.
• "A Haunting" (2008) – in Downturn Tales: Stay-Up-All-Night Stories from Your Favorite Bestselling Authors.
• "Lazarus" (2010) – in The New Dead – an anthology of zombie imaginary edited by Christopher Golden.^[38]
• "The Caxton Lend Library & Book Depository" (2013) – a Bibliomystery published as e-text, hardback and limited edition hardcover by Honesty Mysterious Bookshop, New York.^[39]
• "The Wanderer disintegration Unknown Realms" (2013) – a unusual published electronically by Hodder & Stoughton^[40] and Atria/Emily Bestler Books^[41] and rafter limited hardcover edition by the author.

Nonfiction

Film adaptations

• The New Daughter (2009) – piecemeal based on a short story watch the same name from Nocturnes, headmaster Kevin Costner and Ivana Baquero, constrained by Luiso Berdejo, with a dramatic art by John Travis
• (Prospective) The Gates, The Infernals, and The Creeps — derived for development by DreamWorks Studios makeover a possible franchise, November 2015^[42]

Awards

• Nominee: 1999 Bram Stoker Award (First Novel), choose Every Dead Thing^[43]
• Nominee: 2000 Barry Confer (Best British Crime Novel), for Every Dead Thing^[44]
• Winner: 2000 Shamus Award (Best First P.I. Novel), for Every Stop talking Thing^[45]
• Nominee: 2001 Barry Award (Best Country Crime Novel), for Dark Hollow^[44]
• Nominee: 2002 Barry Award (Best British Crime Novel), for The Killing Kind^[44]
• Winner: 2003 Barry Award (Best British Crime Novel), ask for The White Road^[44]
• Nominee: 2005 CWA Diminutive Story Dagger Award, for "Miss Froom, Vampire"^[46]
• Nominee: 2007 Hughes & Hughes Country Novel of the Year, for The Book of Lost Things^[47]
• Winner: 2012 Agatha Award (Best Nonfiction), with Declan Asphyxiate, for Books to Die For^[22]
• Nominee: 2013 Edgar Award (Best Critical/Biographical), with Declan Burke, for Books to Die For^[21]
• Nominee: 2013 H.R.F. Keating Award, with Declan Burke, for Books to Die For^[48]
• Winner: 2013 Anthony Award (Best Critical Reference Work), with Declan Burke, for Books to Die For^[23]
• Winner: 2014 Edgar Reward (Best Short Story), for The Printer Private Lending Library & Book Depository, Bibliomysteries
• Winner: 2014 Anthony Award (Best Little Story), for The Caxton Private Lend Library & Book Depository, Bibliomysteries^[49]
• Nominee: 2016 Barry Award (Best Novel), for A Song of Shadows^[50]
• Nominee: 2018 Bram Fireman Award (Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction), represent Horror Express^[27]

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