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SYNOPSIS
The community of Prosperous, Maine has always thrived when others have suffered. Its inhabitants are wealthy, its children's future secure. It shuns outsiders. It guards its own. And at the heart of the Prosperous lie the ruins of an ancient church, transported stone by stone from England centuries earlier by the founders of the town...
But the death of a homeless man and the disappearance of his daughter draw the haunted, lethal private investigator Charlie Parker to Prosperous. Parker is a dangerous man, driven by compassion, by rage, and by the desire for vengeance. In him the town and its protectors sense a threat graver than any they have faced in their long history, and in the comfortable, sheltered inhabitants of a small Maine town, Parker will encounter his most vicious opponents yet.
Charlie Parker has been marked to die so that Prosperous may survive.
COPYRIGHT
©Bad Dog Books Limited 2014
FIRST PUBLISHED
Hodder & Stoughton (UK, Ireland, Australia, etc.)
HB - 352 pages - 10/04/2014 - ISBN: 9781444755329
Atria Books (US & Canada)
HB - 416 pages - 28/10/2014 - ISBN: 9781476703183
'GHOSTS' - A SOUNDTRACK TO THE NOVELS, VOL. IV
As some of you may be aware — and, if you're not, then the "Vol. IV" above may be a bit of a giveaway — I've put together three previous compilations of music linked to the Parker books, and it seemed about time to do a fourth to give away with copies of the new book, especially as I'm pretty happy with THE WOLF IN WINTER and wanted to do something special to mark its publication.
GHOSTS includes tracks by XTC, Sun Kil Moon, Mogwai, Kristin Hersh and Scud Mountain Boys, among other equally illustrious names. As before, it's not so much music that I've listened to while writing — I tend to prefer silence when I work — but songs that have been referenced in the books or echo, in terms of lyrics or tone, the mood and concerns of the novels. It's also a fanboy thing, like handing out thousands of mixtapes to friends. If you do find something new that you like on the CD, then please explore further, and maybe let the artists know where you heard their music first.
Finally, the CD is a way to encourage readers to support their local bookstore. We will try to get them to as many bookstores as possible in Ireland, but it really is a limited release, and once the copies are gone, they're staying gone.
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TRACK LIST
XTC - Greenman
SUN KIL MOON - Among The Leaves
SUSANNA - Lay All Your Love On Me
SCUD MOUNTAIN BOYS - Freight Of Fire
JONNY KEARNEY & LUCY FARRELL - Hares On The Mountain
THE BLACKEYED SUSANS - This One Eats Souls
MÙM - Green Grass Of Tunnel *[US-only track]
ENVOY - Every Dead Thing
CANDIDATE - Circle Of Ash
KRISTIN HERSH - Your Ghost
(SMOG) - I Could Drive Forever *[US-only track]
ICEHOUSE - Love Like Blood
GIOVANNA PESSI, SUSANNA WALLUMRØD, JANE ACHTMAN & MARCO AMBROSINI - Who By Fire
DAVIDE ROSSI - It's Getting Late In The Evening
MOGWAI - I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead
THE COLLECTED
UK First Edition HB (signed at A Special Launch Event for THE WOLF IN WINTER on Friday, 21/03/2014 at The Ulster Museum, Botanic Gardens, Belfast, UK sponsored by No Alibis Bookstore. The event featured a performance by Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell. Signed books at this event included a copy of the limited-edition CD, GHOSTS.)
UK 'GHOSTS' CD (came with 1. above - unsigned)
UK First Edition Waterstones Limited Signed Deluxe HB (1 of 3000 - not numbered)
US Advanced Uncorrected Proofs PB (signed)
US First Edition HB (signed)
US 'GHOSTS' CD (came with 5. above) (CD and inlay card signed)
CP11: 2012: THE WRATH OF ANGELS CP13: 2015: A SONG OF SHADOWS
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