{"product_id":"9781439193624","title":"The Lovers (Charlie Parker Series #8)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharlie Parker is a lost soul. Deprived of his private investigator's license and under scrutiny by the police, Parker takes a job in a Portland bar. But he uses his enforced retirement to begin a different kind of investigation: an examination of his own past and an inquiry into the death of his father, who took his own life after apparently shooting dead two unarmed teenagers. It's a search that will eventually lead Parker to question all that he believed about his beloved parents, and about himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut there are other forces at work: a troubled young woman who is running from an unseen threat, one that has already taken the life of her boyfriend; and a journalist-turned-writer named Mickey Wallace, who is conducting an investigation of his own. And haunting the shadows, as they have done throughout Parker's life, are two figures: a man and a woman who seem driven to bring an end to Charlie Parker's existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaunting, lyrical, and impossible to put down, \u003ci\u003eThe Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e is John Connolly at his best.   \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atria Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026265096432,"sku":"9781439193624","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781439193624_p0.jpg?v=1764102445","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781439193624","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}