Michael Parker

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 coast, Joel and his little brother Tank thread their way back to their mother, fueled by potato chips, Coke, and the soundtrack of the powerful soul music that their daddy taught them to love. Always keeping...

What would you do if you knew who killed a friend of yours, but you couldn't come forward with the truth?     From the prize-winning author of Hello Down There and Towns Without Rivers comes a novel about brotherhood and betrayal, deceit and desire.   In the autumn of 1975, a small town struggles with the mysterious murder of a gay teenager found dead in his parents' bed following a high-school keg party. As Thomas Edgecombe, the editor of the...

In 1968, one oil company was left drilling for oil on the North Slope of Alaska. All the big guns had given up and left the icy waste of this frozen desert. When the drill penetrated the lake of oil beneath the ice, so began what was described as the 'second gold rush in Alaskan history'. Michael Parker has taken this historical fact and turned it into a brilliant thriller that penetrates the reader's mind as keenly as the drill cut through the ice....

Calling all Hamilton fans! Spend more time with the remarkable Theodosia Burr by reading this fascinating novel inspired by a little-known incident in her life. It's the stuff of song. 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 forgotten moments in history, it begins in 1813, when Theodosia...

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 dollars and the overthrow of the Mexican government.

It is two years since the wife of best-selling author Max Reilly died in a car crash along with her lover. Max is still recovering from her death and deception, but when he meets Emma - who is awaiting divorce from her violent husband - he quickly becomes attracted to her. Emma is cautious and keen to hold back. Max is determined but needs to keep his secrets from her. This becomes increasingly difficult for Max when he finds himself facing his past...

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. Bruno Schafer has personal orders from Admiral Dönitz to find a missing U boat captain who holds the secrets to Britain's new centimetric radar. The islanders, remnants of a once thriving whaling community,...

Hidden, Vatican gold and three murdered soldiers is the secret Captain Miles Roselli thought he'd buried during the Second World War. Twenty years later the gold is uncovered, and Roselli finds himself in a life and death battle against those who would seek to destroy him and the credibility of the Roman Catholic Church.

"In the early 1970s, in Stovall, Texas, seventeen-year-old Earl—a loner, dreamer, lover of music and words—meets and is quickly infatuated with Tina, the new girl in town. Tina convinces Earl to drive her to see her mother in Austin, where Earl and Tina are quickly separated. Two days later, Earl is being questioned by the police about Tina’s disappearance and the blood in the trunk of his car. But Earl can’t remember what happened in Austin,...

A young girl takes a trip from her bedroom into the sky, past the moon, and through the universe, learning that she is made of stars.