Every Dead Thing by John Connolly

Every Dead Thing

Author(s)	John Connolly
Published	May 11th, 1999
Publisher	Pocket Books
Genre(s)	Horror Mystery Thriller
Age group	Adult

Every Dead Thing by John Connolly is an adult horror mystery thriller novel, originally published on May 11, 1999. It is the first book in the Charlie Parker series.

Trigger Warnings

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• Alcoholism Expand
  Talks about past struggles with alcohol.
• Animal Death Expand
  A dog is shot, brief and not explicit.
• Child abuse Expand
  Part of the plot deals with physical and sexual torture of children, nothing explicit, but mentioned several times.
• Child death
• Depression
• Drugs
• Emesis
• Gore Expand
  Heavy and graphic descriptions of violence and mutilated bodies, including skinning, eye trauma and disembowelment, both of adults and of children.
• Gun violence
• Homophobia Expand
  Minor character tells a homophobic story with derogatory terms, but is challenged on it.
• Kidnapping
• Murder
• Needles
• Occult
• Pedophilia Expand
  Part of the plot deals with physical and sexual torture of children, nothing explicit, but mentioned several times.
• Physical abuse Expand
  Part of the plot deals with physical and sexual torture of children, nothing explicit, but mentioned several times.
• Police brutality
• Racism Expand
  Including racial slurs. Challenged.
• Rape Expand
  Part of the plot deals with physical and sexual torture of children, nothing explicit, but mentioned several times.
• Suicide Expand
  A character commits suicide by gunshot.
• Torture Expand
  Part of the plot deals with physical and sexual torture of children, nothing explicit, but mentioned several times.

Representation

An asterisk (*) indicates that the author openly identifies with that identity.

• Gay black side character
• Gay side character

Tropes

• Dark secret
• Missing Person
• Police procedural
• Whodunit