What's this one? Oh wow they're all starting to blur together a bit. This one has a missing girl, gangsters, and a man who murdered a girl when he was 14 who hires Parker, via his lawyer, to find out who's sending him nasty photos. This audio had two readers which mixes things up a bit. 

Why yes, yes I am spending Covid with my ears adorned with various listening devices downloading audio novels straight to my brain almost every hour of the day, thanks for asking. It's great because you can do other stuff at the same time. I mean, theoretically. This is the one with vets and PTSD and stolen artifacts.

Back to the Charlie Parker mythology as he sets out to unravel his origins and the reasons for his father's murderous actions - set up way back in the first book, but also completely entwined with the supernatural stuff, so either that's some nifty footwork to make everything fit or pretty decent long-term planning. We even have a recurring non-love-interest man-pain generating female character in Parker's lawyer who hasn't ended up murdered yet, so that's a development. Still a throroughly testosteroney series, though. 

Girl with two guns shoots lots of grotesquely evil people.

It's the Angel and Louis show, a slam bang thriller with none of that weird guff, perhaps just to show Connolly can do it when he wants to, talented swine. Again, the focus on character and setting is increasingly what makes this series work without flagging or getting jaded. Connolly really puts the work in for even the relatively minor characters as he unwinds the plot and the bodies start to fall.

 If this book gave off any more Dad vibes it'd turn up at your house and mow the lawn you hadn't gotten round to mowing yourself. The entire story is based around a particular, slightly niche profession which has been carefully researched (reputedly by Francis' wife) so that the protagonist spends much of his time deeply immersed in the prosaic activities of his job in an oddly satisfying and slightly fascinating way. This leads to his being a witness to a dreadful accident, which leads to the discovery of wine and whiskey fraud, and, for the honest-to-God-relatable reason that he's lonely after the death of his wife, he allows himself to become a consultant to both the police and a corporate security agency, coming at the problem from two different ends. 
The writing, characterisation, social observation and plotting are definitely a cut above, but it is noticeable that when the story strays into a horse-racing meet, the prose briefly srouts wings and takes off for the stratosphere before being, ahem, reined in again, betraying, I suppose, his years writing about the sport for a newspaper. 
Yeah, it's easy to see why this well-crafted piece of entertainment was one of a string of bestsellers, but I do wonder, given his stature, why the audiobook, which has a superb reader, has not been cleaned up in any way - it sounds as if it's been transferred between two tape recorders before being digitised. 

A dedicated midwife, a body pulled form the frozen river, a horrific rape case, assorted pregnancies and pairings, more than a few courtroom scenes, a throughly lovable family, yup, a compelling novel about births and deaths and truth and justice. 

A nightmarish bunch of people make their way to a remote island with a bloody history. Lots of violence and murder and ghostly haunting and horrific apparitions ensue. Marvelously dark supernatural thriller.

On reread: practically a homage to Stephen King.

The great James W Hall! Haven't read one of his in AGES and this is one I've read before, but I always liked the the story, a clever but unstable young man targets a cruise ship for sabotage and sheningans. Thorn gets dragged in when his friend Sugerman gets injurred, there's also a (beautiful of course, ah, the 80s trope of even less chauvanistic writers to dwell lovingly on the beauty of their female characters even when, as in this case the beauty is a curse, getting close to the idea that it's not her or anyone's looks it's bloody men) runaway heiress, tricked on board by the unstable guy who has an unhealthy fixation on her. Remember Speed 2, the one set on a boat? Pity they didn't give Hall a truck full of cash for the rights to this and used the plot, easily ooomphed up for cinema with some explosions and shootouts. Ah well. 

Multiple timelines, multiple POVs make this a complicated tangle of secrets and mysteries when teenage girl goes missing from a summer camp in the 1970s. She's the daughter of the wealthy family that owns the camp, and years before her brother went missing and was never found. There's a killer on the loose after her escapes from prison, there's lies and betrayals and hidden histories. Takes a bit to get really going and has bits that feel flabby, but it all comes together very well by the end.