AuthorJohn Connolly
NarratorLuke Thompson
SeriesSamuel Johnson, Book 3
Duration7h 41m
CategoriesYoung Adult and Teen Fiction
Key StageKS3
PublisherHodder
VersionUnabridged
Samuel Johnson is not in a happy place. He is dating the wrong girl, demons are occupying his spare room, and the town in which he lives appears to be cursed. But there is some good news on the horizon. After years of neglect, the grand old building that once housed Wreckit & Sons is about to reopen as the greatest toyshop that Biddlecombe has ever seen, and Samuel and his faithful dachshund Boswell are to be guests of honour at the big event. A splendid time will be had by all, as long as they can ignore the sinister statue that keeps moving around the town, the Shadows that are slowly blocking out the stars, the murderous Christmas elves, and the fact that somewhere in Biddlecombe a rotten black heart is beating a rhythm of revenge. A trap has been set. The Earth is doomed. The last hope for humanity lies with one young boy and the girl who's secretly in love with him. Oh, and a dog, two demons, four dwarfs and a very polite monster.
Samuel Johnson Book 1: The Gates
Author: John Connolly
Author John Connolly
Narrator Nick Rawlinson
SeriesSamuel Johnson, Book 1
Duration 7h 33m
Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund Boswell are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Hallowe'en. Which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Avenue. The Abernathys don't mean any harm by their flirtation with Satanism. But it just happens to coincide with a malfunction in the Large Hadron...
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Charlie Parker Book 5: The Black Angel
Author: John Connolly
Author John Connolly
Narrator Jeff Harding
SeriesCharlie Parker, Book 5
Duration 17h 23m
The Black Angel is not an object. The Black Angel is not a myth. The Black Angel lives. A young woman goes missing from the streets of New York. Those who have taken her believe that nobody cares about her, and that no one will come looking for her. They are wrong. She is 'blood' to the killer Louis, the man who stands at the right hand of private...
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Charlie Parker Book 2: Dark Hollow
Author: John Connolly
Author John Connolly
Narrator Jeff Harding
SeriesCharlie Parker, Book 2
Duration 14h
Still raw from the brutal slayings of his wife and daughter, and the events surrounding the capture of their killer, The Travelling Man, Charlie Parker, retreats to the wintry Maine landscape of his childhood. By following in the steps of his beloved grandfather, Parker hopes to heal his spirit and get through the bitter anniversary of Jennifer and...
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Charlie Parker Book 7: The Reapers
Author: John Connolly
Author John Connolly
Narrator Jeff Harding
SeriesCharlie Parker, Book 7
Duration 11h 36m
They are the Reapers, the elite among killers. Men so terrifying that their names are mentioned only in whispers. The assassin Louis is one of them. But now Louis, and his partner, Angel, are themselves targets. And there is no shortage of suspects. A wealthy recluse sends them north to a town that no longer exists on a map. A town ruled by a man w...
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Charlie Parker Book 6: The Unquiet
Author: John Connolly
Author John Connolly
Narrator Jeff Harding
SeriesCharlie Parker, Book 6
Duration 14h 19m
Daniel Clay, a once-respected psychiatrist, has been missing for years following revelations about harm done to the children in his care. Believing him dead, his daughter Rebecca has tried to come to terms with her father's legacy, but her fragile peace is about to be shattered. Someone is asking questions about Daniel Clay, someone who does not be...
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Charlie Parker Book 3: The Killing Kind
Author: John Connolly
Author John Connolly
Narrator Jeff Harding
SeriesCharlie Parker, Book 3
Duration 13h 5m
Did Grace Peltier commit suicide? When a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the final resting place of a religious community that disappeared almost 40 years earlier, private detective Charlie Parker, hired to investigate the circumstances of her death, realises that their deaths and the violent passing of Grace Peltier are part of the same myst...
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Charlie Parker Book 4: The White Road
Author: John Connolly
Author John Connolly
Narrator Paul Birchard
SeriesCharlie Parker, Book 4
Duration 11h 50m
In South Carolina, a young black man faces the death penalty for the rape and murder of Marianne Larousse, daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the state. It's a case that nobody wants to touch, a case with its roots in old evil, and old evil is private detective Charlie Parker's speciality. But Parker is about to make a descent into the abyss,...
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Samuel Johnson Book 2: Hell's Bells
Author: John Connolly
Author John Connolly
Narrator Nick Rawlinson
SeriesSamuel Johnson, Book 2
Duration 9h
Samuel Johnson - with a little help from his dachshund Boswell and a very unlucky demon named Nurd - has sent the demons back to Hell. But the diabolical Mrs Abernathy is not one to take defeat lying down. When she reopens the portal and sucks Samuel and Boswell down into the underworld, she brings an ice-cream van full of dwarfs as well. And two p...
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Author: John Connolly
Author John Connolly
Narrator Lucy Paterson
Duration 12h 44m
Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accident. She is a body without a spirit, a stolen child. Ceres, her mother, can only sit by her bedside and read aloud to Phoebe the fairy stories she loves in the hope they might summon her back to this world. But it is hard to keep faith, so very hard. Now an old house on the hospital...
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Charlie Parker Book 1: Every Dead Thing
Author: John Connolly
Author John Connolly
Narrator Jeff Harding
SeriesCharlie Parker, Book 1
Duration 15h 42m
Tormented and racked with guilt over the brutal slaying of his wife and daughter, Charlie Parker, ex-cop with the NYPD, agrees to track down a missing girl. It is a search that will lead him into an abyss of evil. At the same time, he is warned by an old black woman in Louisiana that "The Travelling Man" is about to strike again. Multiple strands...
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