Michael Parker

• Mar-1993
• / Suspense
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Haunted by a secret tragedy, Edwin, son of the richest family in a small Southern town, fights to overcome his addiction to morphine and face the truth that his parents have worked to obscure. This timeless debut novel of master Southern storyte...

• Mar-1995
• / General Fiction
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This selection of short stories sets well-known writers, such as William Trevor, Bernard Mac Laverty and Anne Devlin, alongside lesser-known writers. The 20 stories share a complex subject, the Northern Ireland situation, as the shared theme....

• Jul-1995
• / General Fiction
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• Jun-2001
• / General Fiction
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Revisiting Trent, North Carolina -- the town so poignantly rendered in his acclaimed novel, Hello Down There -- Michael Parker picks up the story of Reka Speight, a woman determined to discover a wider world than the rural backwater o...

• Dec-2004
• / Thriller
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The killer.

When he was a troubled youth, his turbulent father told him a crazy story. Haunted by the indignity of his unstable childhood, his passion for revenge is almost demonic.

Danger lurks.

A responsible citizen stumbles onto a corpse ...

• Sep-2005
• / General Fiction
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In Michael Parker’s new novel, Joel Dunn Jr. tells the story of how he did everything he could to save his family after his mother left and his father’s tenuous hold on sanity unraveled. On a journey from the town of Trent, North Carolina, to the...

• Sep-2005
• / Suspense
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In the autumn of 1975, a small town struggles with the mysterious murder of Brandon Pierce, a gay teenager found dead in his parents' bed following a high-school key party. As Thomas Edgecombe, the editor of the town's newspaper, diligently reports o...

• Feb-2007
• / General Fiction
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These eleven arresting, comic, and moving stories by acclaimed writer Michael Parker testify to the driving force of love, the lengths to which we'll go to claim it and pursue it, the delusions we'll float to keep it going, the torment that goes part...

• Nov-2007
• / Thriller
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A mother's revenge… Beautiful, venomous eyes. For Joanna Schiller, they are a tormenting, half-forgotten memory from her past…and now her only clue to finding her newborn son's kidnappers. The young widow is even more shaken when her wealthy ...

• Jun-2008
• / General Fiction
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Underwater oceanographer Harry Marsham survives when his yacht is rammed one night in the Caribbean by a ship without lights. This unexpected event draws Marsham unwittingly into a desperate battle to expose the evil plans of the terrorist, Hakeem Kh...

• Feb-2010
• / Mystery
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It is 1943 and the battle of the Atlantic is being ferociously contested by the Allies and Hitler's Nazi Germany. In the storm-lashed waters off the north coast of Scotland a German commando group lands on the remote shores of North Cape Island. Brun...

• May-2010
• / Political Thriller
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Marcus Blake's ramshackle security agency has no clients to speak of until Susan Ellis walks into his office and asks him to help find her brother who has gone missing in Afghanistan. In that moment, Marcus' world is turned upside down and he is plun...

• Jun-2010
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-2010
• / Suspense
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North Slope is a barren desert of ice in Alaska that stretches from the Brooks Mountains to the Beaufort Sea, frozen during the winter clear to the North Pole. It is in this wilderness that the Fyffe Oil Company struggles in its search for oil. Time ...

• May-2011
• / General Fiction
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Michael Parker’s vast and involving novel about pirates and slaves, treason and treasures, madness and devotion, takes place on a tiny island battered by storms and cut off from the world. Inspired by two little-known moments in history, it begins ...

• Nov-2011
• / Thriller
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During the Second World War, Captain Miles Roselli hides three dead comrades and a fortune in Vatican gold in the Tibesti Mountains of the northern Sahara. Twenty years later, he is forced into a battle of wits when the secret of the gold bullion is ...

• Mar-2012
• / Thriller
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Babs Mason is the perfect political wife. Accomplished, principled and fearless, she charms enemies while always staying several moves ahead. She'll do whatever it takes to help her charismatic senator husband become president of the United States an...

• Sep-2012
• / General Fiction
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When it's time to sleep, the night might seem dark and scary, but in this unique bedtime story, readers take a journey through the night sky to the moment a star is born. Starting as a fire in the sky that explodes into millions of pieces, stars e...

• Mar-2013
• / General Fiction
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"A black tunnel began to form around me. My room started to spin. Desperately I tried to cry out but I couldn't make a sound. Then, like shattering glass, I crashed straight through the tunnel and out to the other side."

Propelled out of his ...

• Jul-2013
• / General Fiction
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A tale of high adventure and elevated absurdity, Flabius Flaximus, mighty warrior of ancient times, traverses the known world, from snowy Egypt to the deserts of Jamaica, in search of windmills and a set of plastic utensils capable of destroying the ...

• Mar-2014
• / General Fiction
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Two strangers meet over the hood of a used car in Texas: Marcus, who is fleeing both his financial and personal failures; and Maria, who, after years of dodging her mistakes, has returned to her hometown to make amends. One looking forward, the other...

• Nov-2014
• / Literary
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Two strangers meet over the hood of a used car in Texas: Marcus, who is fleeing both his financial and personal failures, and Maria, who after years of dodging her mistakes has returned to her hometown to make amends. One looking forward, the other l...

• Apr-2015
• / Mystery
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Best-selling author, Max Reilly, whose wife died in a car crash, meets Emma, who is waiting for a divorce from her violent husband. Their early friendship invokes different emotions in them: Max knows he could fall in love with Emma, while she is mor...

• Jan-2016
• / General Fiction
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When Charlie Picket was sent to Mexico by his boss, he didn't expect to end up with a thirteen year old girl in tow and be hunted by the FBI, the CIA and the Mexican police. But the hunters wanted the girl who was key to the theft of ten billion doll...

• Mar-2017
• / Thriller
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Marcus Blake is the owner and sole investigator of a ramshackle security agency in the heart of London. He employs a secretary part-time. Her name is Vereen and she is a single mother on benefits. He is asked by his old mentor, Sir Giles Cavendish, t...

• Nov-2017
• / General Fiction
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Fiction. Whether ferrying slowly across an eastern North Carolina river or reaching out to touch a train that's not about to stop, the wanderers in these stories yearn for what they can't quite grasp. It might be what they've left behind or what lies...

• Mar-2019
• / Thriller
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Martin Quil is a killer; he hunts men down, but sometimes the tables get turned. When Quil is sent to Germany by his controller at MI6 to find the man responsible for the death of a British agent, he uncovers a Chechnyan plot to assassinate the Russi...

• May-2019
• / General Fiction
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"Michael Parker has captured a time, place, and sisterhood so perfectly it hurts to turn the last page. A riveting, atmospheric dream of a novel.” --Dominic Smith, author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos  Winner of ...

• Aug-2019
• / General Fiction
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Marcus Blake is drawn into the murky world of county line drug gangs as he searches for a missiing girl, Jessica. She is the daughter of London's top criminal, but her father has been absent in her life for several years. During his search, Marcus le...

• Oct-2022
• / General Fiction
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Travis Blake wanted a quiet self-drive holiday, but he hadn't planned on stopping on the long empty Wyoming road for a woman whose truck had broken down. She just wanted a lift a few miles to her home town, Mason Falls. Travis agreed, but what he was...

• Nov-2022
• / Literary
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“A GUT PUNCH OF A NOVEL -- lyrical, mordantly funny, and wrenching.” -- Kelly Link, author of Get in TroubleThe searing and unforgettable story of one decision that irrevocably changes the course of a young man’s life. In the early 1970s, in S...

• / Contemporary Romance
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She was called Rosie but had no name. She was homeless and lived on the streets. She had no memory of her life. Tom was a high flyer in the City of London. He had wealth and lived life to the full. Their worlds existed at the opposite ends of the spe...

• / General Fiction
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It's 1898, in British East Africa. Reuben Cole finds himself torn between battling to save his son from the evil slave markets of Mombassa and foiling the murderous plans of the Ugandan king, Mwanga. Added to this mix of torment and intrigue are the ...

• / General Fiction
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