{"product_id":"2940170768141","title":"Every Dead Thing: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHave faith. I will find you.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormer NYPD detective Charlie \"Bird\" Parker is on the verge of madness. Tortured by the unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter, he is a man consumed by guilt, regret, and the desire for revenge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen his former partner asks him to track down a missing girl, Parker finds himself drawn into a world beyond his imaginingamp;mdash;one where 30 year old killings remain shrouded in fear and lies, a world where the ghosts of the dead torment the living, a world haunted by the murderer responsible for the deaths in his family, a serial killer unlike any other, a monster who uses the human body to create works of art and takes faces as his prize. But the search awakens buried instincts in Parker: instincts for survival, for compassion, for love, and, ultimately, for killing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAided by a beautiful young psychologist and a pair of career criminals, he becomes the bait in a trap set in the humid bayous of Louisiana, a trap that threatens the lives of everyone in its reach. Driven by visions of the dead and the voice of an old black psychic who met a terrible end, Parker must seek a final, brutal confrontation with a murderer who has moved beyond all notions of humanity, who has set out to create a hell on earth: the serial killer known only as the Travelling Man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of classic American detective fiction, \u003ci\u003eEvery Dead Thing\u003c\/i\u003e is a tense, richly-plotted thriller, filled with memorable characters and gripping action. It is also a profoundly moving novel, concerned with the nature of loyalty, of love, and of forgiveness. Lyrical and terrifying, it is an ambitious debut, triumphantly realized.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47115656462576,"sku":"2940170768141","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170768141_p0.jpg?v=1763716931","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170768141","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}