“The Woman in the Woods” by John Connolly – From the Belly of the Beast
John Connolly never ceases to deliver thrills and chills in his wide range of mysteries and detective stories, returning to helm his ship the best way he knows with his new novel The Woman in the Woods . The sixteenth book in the Charlie Parker series, it follows the private investigator as he is hired to shadow a police investigation into the recently-discovered, half-preserved body of a woman in the woods, bearing all signs of having given birth shortly before her demise. Though the child doesn't know it, all sorts of parties are out looking for him... even a dead woman.