Skip to product information
1 of 1

Goldsboro Books

978-1529391862

The Instruments of Darkness

The Instruments of Darkness

by John Connolly

Publisher Hodder & Stoughton

Genre: Crime

Publication date:

Available from:

  • Signed
  • Hardcover
  • UK First Edition, First Printing


Regular price £22.00
Regular price Sale price £22.00
Sale Sold out
Rendering loop-subscriptions
Rendering loop-subscriptions

Limited Edition Copies

View full details
  • Professionally Packed

    All of our books that have a dust wrapper are covered in clear protective, removable film and are packed professionally in bubble wrap and a box for shipping so that they reach you in perfect condition.

  • Book Condition & Notes

    Our copies will come with a gunmetal bookmark.

About the book

A Child Missing. A Mother Accused. Charlie Parker Is Their Only Hope.

In Maine, Colleen Clark stands accused of the worst crime a mother can commit: the abduction and possible murder of her child. Everyone - ambitious politicians in an election season, hardened police, ordinary folk - has an opinion on the case, and most believe she is guilty.

But most is not all. Defending Colleen is the lawyer Moxie Castin, and working alongside him is the private investigator Charlie Parker, who senses the tale has another twist, one involving a husband too eager to accept his wife's guilt, a disgraced psychic seeking redemption, and an old twisted house deep in the Maine woods, a house that should never have been built.

A house, and what dwells beneath.

Collapsible content

John Connolly

John Connolly is an Irish writer who is best known for his series of novels starring private detective Charlie Parker.


After five years as a freelance journalist for The Irish Times newspaper, he began to write his first novel, Every Dead Thing, in his spare time (he continues to contribute articles to the paper, most frequently interviews with other established authors).


Connolly has since written further books in the Parker series, 19 as of 2019, and a non-Parker thriller, as well as venturing outside of the crime genre with the publication of first, an anthology of ghost stories and later, a novel about a young boy's coming-of-age journey through a fantasy realm during World War II England.

Collapsible content

1. Manufacturer Contact Information

Goldsboro Books Ltd - 23-27 Cecil Court, London, WC2N4EZ, enquiries@goldsborobooks.com, 02074979230

2. EU Authorised Representative Information

Easy Access System Europe - Mustamäe tee 50, 10621 Tallinn, Estonia, gpsr.requests@easproject.com

3. Safety Warnings

Not applicable

  • Goldsboro Books London is Hiring - Full Time London Bookshop Manager

    Goldsboro Books London is Hiring - Full Time Lo...

    Rebecca McDonnell

    BOOKSHOP MANAGER WANTED – GOLDSBORO BOOKS LONDON   Are you passionate about books and eager to share your love of literature with others? Goldsboro Books, the UK's leading independent retailer...

    Rebecca McDonnell

    Goldsboro Books London is Hiring - Full Time Lo...

    BOOKSHOP MANAGER WANTED – GOLDSBORO BOOKS LONDON   Are you passionate about books and eager to share your love of literature with others? Goldsboro Books, the UK's leading independent retailer...

  • Goldsboro Books London is Hiring - Full Time London Bookseller

    Goldsboro Books London is Hiring - Full Time Lo...

    Rebecca McDonnell

    BOOKSELLER WANTED – GOLDSBORO BOOKS LONDON   Are you passionate about sci-fi & fantasy books and eager to share your love of genre fiction with others? Goldsboro Books, the UK's...

    Rebecca McDonnell

    Goldsboro Books London is Hiring - Full Time Lo...

    BOOKSELLER WANTED – GOLDSBORO BOOKS LONDON   Are you passionate about sci-fi & fantasy books and eager to share your love of genre fiction with others? Goldsboro Books, the UK's...

  • Bookseller Picks: Must-Read Irish Writers & Stories From Ireland

    Bookseller Picks: Must-Read Irish Writers & Sto...

    David Headley

    To celebrate St Patrick’s Day we asked our booksellers from our London bookshop and our Brighton bookshop to share their favourite Irish writers and stories set in Ireland. From exciting...

    David Headley

    Bookseller Picks: Must-Read Irish Writers & Sto...

    To celebrate St Patrick’s Day we asked our booksellers from our London bookshop and our Brighton bookshop to share their favourite Irish writers and stories set in Ireland. From exciting...

  • Bookseller Recommends: 8 Must-Read March Releases We’re Excited For

    Bookseller Recommends: 8 Must-Read March Releas...

    David Headley

    Spring is (almost) in the air, and with it comes a fresh crop of books to fall in love with. Our booksellers at Goldsboro Books have hand-picked eight stunning new...

    David Headley

    Bookseller Recommends: 8 Must-Read March Releas...

    Spring is (almost) in the air, and with it comes a fresh crop of books to fall in love with. Our booksellers at Goldsboro Books have hand-picked eight stunning new...

NaN of -Infinity