JOHN CONNOLLY - THE WOMAN IN THE WOODS

You know what you're going to get with John Connolly. He's found a niche and fills it nicely. His daughters, living and dead, speak to him and his associates do bad things. Angel and Louis are by now old friends and if they were missing from the story it would be a lesser tale.
Charlie Parker is one of those damaged people who face the threats from the living, dead and not quite dead with caution and there's plenty of that in this book. He's not so good with women, and he knows it, but has learnt from his mistakes and I'm sure that in some future time he'll settle down, probably not until he's killed the last wraith.
In his trade he tends to come across serial killers regularly and that's good because we all like serial killer stories. We wonder how they'll be caught, that one little foible that will allow identification and resolution. Bad childhoods, not-so-nice entities, crime and parents get the blame.
John is always worth a read and there's a big back catalogue to enjoy. Oh, he does good short stories too.