Every Dead Thing, de John Connolly

John Connolly. Every Dead Thing. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999. ISBN: 0-340-72898-1

Haunted by the unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter, and tormented by his sense of guilt, former New York City detective Charlie "Bird" Parker is a man consumed by violence, regret and the desire for revenge.

Then Bird's ex-partner asks him to track down a missing girl and Bird embarks on an odyssey that is to lead him the bowels of organised crime; to an old black woman who dwells by the Louisiana swamps; to cellars of fortune and death; and to a serial killer unlike any other, an artist who uses the human body as his canvas and takes faces as his prize, a killer known only as The Travelling Man.