The Furies: Private Investigator Charlie Parker looks evil in the eye in the globally bestselling series (Charlie Parker Thriller)

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The Furies: mythological snake-haired goddesses of vengeance, pursuers of those who have committed unavenged crimes. I wasn't the biggest fan of the 19th in the series, so I was pleased to find this 20th Charlie Parker story great! Dolors and her sister Ambar (their parents couldn’t spell) once hooked up with a very bad man name Raum Buker.

And so he does and gets involved with a coin collecting group of nasties, sickos, strangies and worse.Here, he tackles two separate cases at once, one where a mafia widow is haunted by her husband’s misdeeds and the theory that she still had the thousands of dollars her husband skimmed from the organization. The Gates launched the Samuel Johnson series for younger readers in 2009, followed by Hell's Bells (UK)/The Infernals (US) in 2011.

This one is actually two short books and both of them concentrate more on Parker's investigative efforts, with only a small amount of the occult. Strangely enough, things are going well for Parker, who has found some semblance of a life in Maine. S. Geological Survey, leading to “immediate suspension of the National Volcano Early Warning System,” and there’s always someone around looking to monetize the natural disaster and the sasquatch-y onslaught that follows. Unbeknownst to him, however, these clients are more capable of taking care of themselves than anyone could have imagined.A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. I love Charlie Parker, I love Louis and Angel, I even love Tony and Paulie Fulci (how could you not?