The Unquiet (2007) (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Charlie Parker: Private Investigator, initially hired to protect Rebecca Clay. Protagonist.
• Frank Merrick: Add a description of this character.
• John Connolly
• Angel: Works with Parker when extra firepower is needed.
• Louis: Angel's partner and works with Parker when needed
• The Collector: Mysterious other-worldly character who exacts a moral justice on souls and collects a souvenir
• The Guesser: Runs a stall by the pier and bets people that he can guess all sorts of facts about them
• Merrick: The aggressor of Rebecca Clay and the reason why Parker is hired
• Daniel Clay: Psychologist; father of Rebecca Clay. Works with abused children.
• Joel Harmon: Former acquaintance of Daniel Clay
• Ricky Demarcian
• Dr Robert Christian: Psychologist and colleague of Daniel Clay; also works with abused children
• Legere: Rebecca Clay's ex husband
• Rebecca Clay: Daughter of Daniel Clay, and hires Parker to protect her
• Ricky
• Caswell
• Andy Kellog
• Raymon Lang
• Hansen
• Rachel: Parker's wife
• Mason Dubus
• Jackman
• O'rourke
• Guesser
• Mr. Parker
• Walter
• Aimee
• Lucy Merrick
• Jerry Legere
• Dave
• Otis
• Sam: Parker's daughter
• Jackie Garner
• Ronald
• Todd
• Scarborough
• Jenna: Rebecca Clay's daughter
• Jacobs
• Christian
• Bob
• Max
• Maria
• Donnie
• Muller
• Phil
• Bill
• Bingham

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• ““The law doesn’t require truth, only the appearance of it. Most cases simply rest on a version of it that’s acceptable to both sides. You want to know what the only truth is? Everybody lies. That’s it. That’s truth. You can take that to the preacher and get it baptized.” Page 140”

  Chalie Parker (I think?)

• ““I’m a liberal Republican.”“I’ve never really understood what that means.”“Means I believe people can do whatever they want, as long as they don’t do it anywhere near me.” Page 338”

  Charlie Parker & Louis

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• He described hypnagogic dreams, those vivid images that come to us in the spaces between sleeping and waking;

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• I believe people can do whatever they want, as long as they don’t do it anywhere near me.”

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• Parkinson’s, sometimes suffered from an ailment called Lewy body dementia, which caused them to see foreshortened bodies.

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• ‘source misattribution,’ where a kid may have heard something and applied it to himself, perhaps as a way of seeking attention.

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• Like everything else there, she looked old, but age had not dimmed her affection for cosmetics or hair dye, even if it had deprived her of some of the skills required to apply both without making the final effect look less like an act of vanity than an act of vandalism.

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• There was a relic of the beauty that she might once have had still visible in her face, but it had been debased by her grim determination to hold on to it. Her eyes were dull and glassy, and her conversational skills would have made a passing child seem like Oscar Wilde.

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• he concluded, he still could not entirely explain away all reported supernatural experiences using science alone. There was too much that we did not know, he said, about the workings of the brain, about stress and depression, about mental illness and the nature of grief.

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• There is a sundering, a rift that occurs, and even if an accommodation is reached, and a decision made to try again, the fact that one person left the other is never really forgotten, or forgiven.

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• abattoir. No, too close. Mustn’t say that. You tear things apart. Living things. You hurt and you kill and you bury the evidence beneath the ground. And sometimes they fight back. I see the scars around your eyes, and in the soft flesh beneath your jaw. There’s a cluster of rough strands just

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• “Winston Churchill once said that you can judge a society by the way it treats its prisoners. You know, there was all of this stuff about Abu Ghraib and what we we’re doing to Muslims in Iraq and in Guantánamo and in Afghanistan and wherever else we’ve decided to lock up those whom we perceive to be a threat.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Maine
• South Portland
• Boston
• Virginia
• Thomaston
• Massachusetts
• Gilead
• New York
• Old Moose Lodge
• Falmouth
• Jersey
• Kennebec
• Augusta
• Louis

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by The Black Angel, and followed by The Reapers.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. John Connolly (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Awards edit see section history

• Macavity Awards (Finalist, 2008: Best Mystery Novel)

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 823.914

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Frequent violence and subject matter unsuitable for children.

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › Irish
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Mystery
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary