Woman in the Woods - John Connolly

Written by John Connolly
Read by Jeff Harding
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Charlie Parker (#16)
Issis Audio, 2018
Length: 13 hr., 35 min.

When a tree falls in the Great North Woods, revealing the mummified body of a woman who apparently died in childbirth, it does more than make a sound…..it tolls a death knell whose echoes reach far beyond the poor soul nestled in it’s roots.

The discovery of the body moves lawyer Moxie Castin to an act of decency…hiring Charlie Parker to discover who this woman was, and to find her child.

Not the simplest of assignments, but Charlie could use something to occupy his mind, as Angel lies fighting for his life in a hospital bed, and Louis contemplates losing not only his lover, but the last shreds of his humanity.

Little does Charlie know that shadows are gathering…a small boy is terrorized by a voice coming from his toy phone in the dead of night, beckoning him into the woods…. and a couple who seek the lost woman for other reasons; he, a dapper killer who claims to be older than he appears, searching for something that will end his existence; her, a lethal sociopath who leaves the scent of corruption wherever she goes. They’re on the trail too, leaving pain and death in their wake.

Connolly only gets better and better, the proof of this is not only in the longevity of the series, but the fact that his characters evolve naturally as time passes, growing older, but aging well.

It is spring, and the mummified body of a young Jewish woman is discovered buried in the Maine woods. It is clear that she gave birth shortly before her death.

But there is no sign of a baby.

Private detective Charlie Parker is engaged by the lawyer Moxie Castin to shadow the police investigation and find the infant, but Parker is not the only searcher. Someone else is following the trail left by the woman, someone with an interest in more than a missing child, someone prepared to leave bodies in his wake.

And in a house by the woods, a toy telephone begins to ring.

For a young boy is about to receive a call from a dead woman.