When an inexhaustible writer like John connolly ends up making a protagonist as Charlie Parker a perfect stereotype of the human being capable of harboring conflicting emotions, opposing sensations and antagonistic thoughts in the same being, all with rabid verisimilitude, the narrative vein ends up showing the best creative vein.
Of course Charlie Parker is an antihero. The point is, readers are no longer fascinated by the arms of classic heroes. Because assuming the dark side of all, the psychological profiles that most resemble us have a greater chance of reaching us.
Lights and shadows, sometimes strange excuses to justify the unjustifiable, to ride those contradictions of the times we live in. That's Charlie Parker, a doer of modern good, a soul as inspired as it is tormented. No more no less.
It is spring and, in the forests of Maine, storms accelerate the thaw. Until, suddenly, when a tree falls, the corpse of a young woman is exposed next to the roots. Police and forensics investigating what could have happened quickly find out that the woman gave birth shortly before she died.
However, in the surroundings there is no sign of the newborn, who may now be three or four years old. To find him, attorney Moxie Castin enlists Detective Charlie Parker for help. But Parker is not the only one who has undertaken that search.
Some time ago, someone followed in the footsteps of that young woman, someone who leaves corpses behind. And in a house near the woods, a toy phone starts to ring. It sounds for a child who is about to receive a call from a dead woman. But when the dead call, only Charlie Parker dares to answer.
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