Clare Connelly Popular Books

Clare Connelly Biography & Facts

Joe Connelly is an American writer, best known for his first novel, Bringing Out the Dead, which was made into an eponymous film. A native of New York City, he now lives in the Adirondacks with his wife and family. Biography Connelly was born in St Clare’s Hospital in Hell's Kitchen, where his mother worked and where she had met his father years before (at a dance in the basement). They were working-class, and he was raised in Warwick, New York. Having secured a scholarship to become the first member of his family to go to college, after three years he dropped out of Colgate University and, before publishing his first novel, worked as a paramedic for nine years, back at St. Clare's. He wrote in his spare time over that period, in a small flat in the Upper West Side and while living in Ireland and travelling in Eastern Europe for a considerable period. During this time, Connelly was encouraged by a creative writing professor at Columbia University. Bringing Out the Dead (1998) is autobiographical in nature and follows the story of a paranoid, hollow-eyed paramedic who works the graveyard shift in Hell's Kitchen, the barrio bounding the phantasmagoria of Times Square. Having seen so much human suffering on the job, the main character of the book, Frank, has turned inwards, despondent to the point of becoming a drunk, his life a living hell. The novel was an immediate bestseller on publication, and was optioned for $100,000, eventually making its way to production as a major motion picture of the same name in 1999. Bringing Out the Dead was directed by Martin Scorsese and the screenplay was adapted by Paul Schrader. Though the film was a critical success, it fell short of box office expectations. His second novel, Crumbtown (2003), didn't sell as well as the first. Although the book's characters were the trademark down-and-out personalities of Connelly's debut novel, he was criticized for relying on well-trodden clichés. References. Discover the Clare Connelly popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Clare Connelly books.

Best Seller Clare Connelly Books of 2024

  • Found Her synopsis, comments

    Found Her

    NJ Mackay

    The most gripping, emotional and redemptive psychological thriller of 2021 for fans of Erin Kinsley, Lisa Jewell, Louise Jensen, Phoebe Morgan, CL Taylor, Cara Hunter and KL Slate...

  • Harlequin Presents - May 2021 - Box Set 1 of 2 synopsis, comments

    Harlequin Presents - May 2021 - Box Set 1 of 2

    Lynne Graham, Clare Connelly, Michelle Smart & Natalie Anderson

    Harlequin Presents brings you four fulllength stories in one collection! Experience the glamorous lives of royals and billionaires, where passion knows no bounds. Be swept into a w...

  • Shadow of a Doubt synopsis, comments

    Shadow of a Doubt

    Michelle Davies

    'Pure suspense, where past and present collide with chilling results' Erin Kelly'A hugely entertaining, fastpaced thriller' Caz Frear'It's a pitchperfect blend of ghostly terror an...

  • The Boy in the Shadows synopsis, comments

    The Boy in the Shadows

    Carl-Johan Vallgren & Rachel Willson-Broyles

    In an overcrowded Stockholm underground station a father and his two boys are late for their train. Joel, the youngest, is howling in his pushchair and his sevenyearold brother, Kr...

  • Like Mother, Like Daughter synopsis, comments

    Like Mother, Like Daughter

    Elle Croft

    'Utterly absorbing and thoughtprovoking' Caz Frear'What a premise, and packed with suspense' Victoria Selman'A dark, delicious triumph' Niki MackayIf what they said was true, then ...

  • This Much is True synopsis, comments

    This Much is True

    Jane Sanderson

    'The best book I have read in a long, long time' Amazon reviewThe twisty, gripping novel about a shocking secret at the heart of a family, and a mother desperate to keep it hidden...

  • The Guilty Wife synopsis, comments

    The Guilty Wife

    Elle Croft

    THE TOP 10 EBOOK BESTSELLER 'A gripping tale of betrayal, deceit, and duplicity. Fabulous.' Jenny Blackhurst, author of How I Lost You 'Relentless and intense...I loved the final ...

  • For the Dead synopsis, comments

    For the Dead

    Lina Bengtsdotter

    DI Charlie Lager returns to investigate a longburied disappearance in this 'atmospheric', 'evocative' and 'arresting' pageturner of a procedural from the new Swedish queen of crime...

  • All Fall Down synopsis, comments

    All Fall Down

    M. J. Arlidge

    FROM THE MIND OF THE MILLIONCOPY BESTSELLER M.J. ARLIDGE COMES THE BRAND NEW SERIAL KILLER THRILLER STARRING DETECTIVE INSPECTOR HELEN GRACE... "You have one hour to live."Those...

  • The Ring the Spaniard Gave Her synopsis, comments

    The Ring the Spaniard Gave Her

    Lynne Graham

    A fake engagement leads to a passion that's all too real in this pretend relationship romance from USA TODAY bestselling author Lynne Graham.The Spaniard’s convenient Cinderella…An...

  • For the Missing synopsis, comments

    For the Missing

    Lina Bengtsdotter

    'A thriller that lingers in the memory' SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUB'Dark Nordic noir' THE i 'A global bestseller' SUNDAY TIMES The awardwinning, international bestselling Swedish crime...

  • The Bone Readers synopsis, comments

    The Bone Readers

    Jacob Ross

    WINNER OF THE JHALAK PRIZE'The Bone Readers is a pageturner, but its insights and language are equally testament to a literary novel of impressive depth and acuity' GuardianSecrets...

  • The Dance of the Serpents synopsis, comments

    The Dance of the Serpents

    Oscar de Muriel

    'Properly creepy and Gothic' IAN RANKIN on the Frey & McGray mysteries...December, 1889.There have been many bad days in Edinburgh police's secret subdivision 'The Commission f...

  • What Lies Buried synopsis, comments

    What Lies Buried

    Margaret Kirk

    'Shadow Man is a harrowing and horrific game of consequences' Val McDermid THE BRILLIANTLY COMPELLING SECOND NOVEL IN THE DI LUKAS MAHLER SERIESA missing child. A seventyyearold mu...

  • The Unwanted Dead synopsis, comments

    The Unwanted Dead

    Chris Lloyd

    'A gripping murder mystery and a vivid recreation of Paris under German Occupation.' ANDREW TAYLORWINNER OF THE HWA GOLD CROWN AWARD FOR BEST HISTORICAL FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE ...