Every dead thing - John Connolly (Charlie Parker #1)

Haunted by the unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter, and tormented by his sense of guilt, former New York City detective Charlie 'Bird' Parker is a man consumed by violence, regret and the desire for revenge.

Then Bird's ex-partner asks him to track down a missing girl and Bird embarks on an odyssey that is to lead him into the bowels of organised crime, to an old black woman who dwells by the Louisiana swamps, to cellars of torture and death, and to a serial killer unlike any other, an artist who uses the human body as his canvas and takes faces as his prize, a killer known only as the Traveling Man.