If you're a Connolly reader then you already know that he writes a great story with many twists and turns. He also does his research and every detail reads authentic. In The Nameless Ones, he takes the story to Europe and more specifically to the Serbs. I appreciated the introduction as a brief reminder of the history of all the tragedy that took place there.
The story itself is perfectly as good as all of his stories and I was sad when it came to an end. There were many characters to keep track of so it kept me on my toes, but that was part of the fun.

Thank you to NetGalley for an advance copy of this book.

John Connolly's Charlie Parker Series, here in its 19th unfailingly outstanding appearance, is the one Series for which I drop everything to read. For this Series, I would willingly sword-swallow and cross hot coals. However, Reader beware: you're going to need a cast-iron stomach, the capacity to compartmentalize memories, and ability to persevere in spite of triggering fictional events and factual history. Also, check your optimism at the door: the horrors of man's inhumanity to man, woman, child, did not end with the depredations of the 15th century Ottoman Empire and its sworn enemy, Vlad Dracul the Impaler. Mr. Connolly's background as an accomplished journalist infuses his deep and extensive research, and his consummate grasp of Balkan history through to the present infuses THE NAMELESS ONES, providing material to keep readers awake all night grieving and striving to find light amid the darkness of the human condition.

This is most definitely a slow burn! What I didn't care for is the writing the style just wasn't for me!
Overall this book was good! I wished the ending had more to it! And the fact that it took forever for something to happen. This book was ok!

Sometimes you need a good palate cleanser after too many literary books, and sometimes that palate cleanser comes in the form of a mystery with a heavy dose of Eastern-European torture. I mean, a lot of torture. The guards at Abu Ghraib are blushing. Much of it happens off-screen, but be prepared nonetheless.

This is a solid, methodical thriller/mystery that is equally well-written and well-researched. Connolly folds in quite a bit of history surrounding the various Yugoslav Wars and the violent fallout that the characters still contend with. It gives the writing and setting a depth that most thrillers don't posses, but those looking for Harlan Coben might struggle with the interruptions.

I love the first fifty pages and the meditations on death, which give the subsequent killings an emotional heft.

The middle of the section of the book turns repetitive, following the pattern of: secretive conversation, identification of target, killing of said target. It felt like a brutal march of executions towards the climax, each cold body providing diminishing returns.