New Releases by John Connolly

Years after the massacre that wiped out a colony of settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary, rookie officer Sharon Macy and policeman Joe Dupree team up to protect the island''s residents from a band of vengeful killers.

Samuel Johnson - with help from Boswell and a demon named Nurd - has sent the demons back to Hell. But Mrs Abernathy does not take defeat lying down. She reopens the portal and sucks Samuel and Boswell down into the underworld, with an ice-cream van full of dwarfs, and two policemen. Can this eccentric gang defeat the forces of Evil? And is there life after Hell for Nurd?

A boy, his dog, and their struggle to escape the wrath of demons. Young Samuel Johnson foiled the invasion of Earth by the forces of evil; now they want to get their claws on Samuel and his faithful dachshund, Boswell.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Whisperers “Connolly’s dark, lyrical prose will leave unshakable images lurking on the edge of the reader’s consciousness.” —Booklist All John Connolly fans know to expect the unexpected. He is a master of the supernatural, the dark twist, the creak of a door in the dark, of all creatures sinister. Connolly’s novels have been bestsellers world-wide. Now, step into his imagination for a moment or two and experience this wonderfully nightmarish short story.

A strange novel for strange young people. Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund Boswell are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Hallowe''en. Which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Avenue. The Abernathys don''t mean any harm by their flirtation with Satanism. But it just happens to coincide with a malfunction in the Large Hadron Collider that creates a gap in the universe. A gap in which there is a pair of enormous gates. The gates to Hell. And there are some pretty terrifying beings just itching to get out . . . Can Samuel persuade anyone to take this seriously? Can he harness the power of science to save the world as we know it?

The purpose of the thesis is to examine the nature, dynamics and extent of post-crisis change in British crisis management arrangements for veterinary disease induced outbreaks following the 2001 foot and mouth crisis. Two fundamental questions guide the analysis. First, is the process of post-crisis change incremental or does a crisis stimulate radical change? Second, are existing categorisations of the nature of post-crisis change appropriate for understanding change within the veterinary disease policy sector? These questions derive from a wide-ranging review of academic literatures concerned with the politics of crisis management, policy and organisational change, and Europeanisation. In examining the connections between these literatures the thesis identifies a gap in existing knowledge of how the reform of crisis management policies and organisation practices impacts upon specific policy sectors. The 2001 foot and mouth epidemic provides the baseline case study from which the processes of change are analysed. In order to examine the nature and type of change the outbreak of foot and mouth in September 2007 is used as a comparator case study, with the avian influenza outbreak in February 2007 used to broaden the analysis to allow observations to be made about the generic nature of the management of veterinary diseases in Great Britain. The major source of data for this study is semi-structured elite interviews. Major actors in the management of crisis, including UK and EU officials and significant elected representatives, provide deep insights into the nature and extent of organisational and policy change after the 2001 outbreak. The qualitative data derived from interviews is triangulated with official documentary sources and information obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. In examining categorisations of post-crisis change the thesis concludes by calling for the deployment of perspectives from studies of both crisis management and policy and organisational change; and for existing categorisations to be refined to take into account the temporalities of change and the multi-dimensionality of change.

As a starting journalist, the author covered a still-unsolved Dublin murder, an event that helped him shape his character, Charlie Parker. Connolly was influenced by several 20th century authors, among them Ed McBain, Ross Macdonald, James Lee Burke. He reflects on the dearth of Irish detective stories and how that void is beginning to fill.

Set in the rural English village of Underbury in 1915, all the men of the village have gone off to war. In their place, an ancient evil has returned.