N O V E L S E V E R Y    D E A D    T H I N G (UK) Winner of the Shamus Award for Best First Novel, 1999 An L.A. Times Book of the Year, 1999 Haunted by the unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter, and tormented by his sense of guilt, former NYPD detective Charlie Parker is a man consumed by violence, regret and the desire for revenge. But when his ex-partner asks him to track down a missing girl, Parker embarks on an odyssey that is to lead him to the heart of organized crime; to an old black woman who dwells by a Louisiana swamp and hears the voices of the dead; to cellars of torture and murder; and to a serial killer unlike any other, an artist who uses the human body as his canvas and takes faces as his prize, the killer known only as the Traveling Man. (US) Read Reviews. Read a Q & A. Support an independent bookstore, or buy online from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, or BooksIrish.com. Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 2000.  Published by Simon & Schuster in the US and Canada, April 2001.