The White Road: A Charlie Parker Thriller - Charlie Parker

Marc Notes: Originally published: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2002.; In South Carolina, a young black man faces the death penalty for the rape and murder of Marianne Larousse, daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the state. Private detective Charlie Parker investigates. Publisher Marketing: In his fourth thriller, international bestselling author John Connolly once again takes readers into the dark world of private detective Charlie Parker, whose deadly fight against evil begins when the daughter of a South Carolina millionaire is raped and murdered. In South Carolina, a young black man faces the death penalty for the rape and murder of Marianne Larousse, daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the state. It's a case that nobody wants to touch, a case with its roots in old evil, and old evil is private detective Charlie Parker's speciality. But Parker is about to enter a living nightmare, a red dreamscape haunted by the murderous spectre of a hooded woman, by a black car waiting for a passenger that never comes, and by the complicity of both friends and enemies in the events surrounding Marianne Larousse's death. This is not an investigation. This is a descent into the abyss, a confrontation with dark forces that threaten all that Parker holds dear: his lover, his unborn child, even his soul... For in a prison cell far to the north, an old adversary is about to take his revenge on Charlie Parker, its instruments the very men that Parker is hunting, and a strange, hunched creature that keeps its own secrets buried by a riverbank: the undiscovered killer Cyrus Nairn. Soon, all of these figures will face a final reckoning in southern swamps and northern forests, in distant locations linked by a single thread, a place where the paths of the living and the dead converge. A place known only as the White Road. Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2003 pg. 6 (EAN 9780743456388, Hardcover) Booklist 01/01/2003 pg. 854 (EAN 9780743456388, Hardcover) Romantic Times 03/01/2003 pg. 69 (EAN 9780743456388, Hardcover) BookPage 03/01/2003 pg. 6 (EAN 9780743456388, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 03/17/2003 pg. 56 (EAN 9780743456388, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Library Journal 03/15/2003 pg. 113 (EAN 9780743456388, Hardcover) Mystery Review 06/01/2003 pg. 17 (EAN 9780743456388, Hardcover) Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/15/2002 pg. 52 (EAN 9780743462631, Other) Library Journal 11/15/2002 (EAN 9780743462631, Other) Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/15/2002 pg. 52 (EAN 9780743456395, Mass Market Paperbound) Library Journal 11/15/2002 (EAN 9780743456395, Mass Market Paperbound) Contributor Bio:  Connolly, John John Connolly is the author of the Charlie Parker series of mystery novels, the supernatural collection "Nocturnes, " and the Samuel Johnson and Chronicles of the Invaders series for younger readers. He lives in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, see his website at JohnConnollyBooks.com, or follow him on Twitter @JConnollyBooks.