SummaryJohn Connolly thrilled readers with his bestselling novels,
Every Dead Thing, Dark Hollow, and The Killing Kind. Now he
delivers spellbinding suspense as Charlie Parker races to
unravel a brutal crime committed in the Deep South. After years of suffering unfathomable pain and guilt over
the murders of his wife and daughter, private detective
Charlie Parker has finally found some measure of peace. As
he and his lover, Rachel, are awaiting the birth of their
first child and settling into an old farmhouse in rural
Maine, Parker has found the kind of solace often lost to
those who have been touched by true evil. But darkness soon descends when Parker gets a call from
Elliot Norton, an old friend from his days as a detective
with the NYPD. Now practicing law in Charleston, South
Carolina, Elliot is defending a young black man accused of
raping and killing his white girlfriend, the daughter of a
powerful Southern millionaire. Reluctantly, Parker agrees
to help Elliot and by doing so ventures into a living
nightmare, a bloody dreamscape haunted by the specter of a
hooded woman and a black car waiting for a passenger who
never arrives. Beginning as an investigation into a young
woman's death, it is a fast-moving descent into an abyss
where forces conspire to destroy all that Parker holds
dear. Hailed as a "master storyteller" (The London Express) by
critics stateside and abroad, Connolly has once again
delivered a riveting and suspenseful story that draws
readers toward the horrifying crossroads of the past and
present, of the living and the dead. "We are trapped not
only by our own history but by the histories of all those
with whom we choose to share our lives," he writes. As
chillingly as it is beautifully rendered, The White Road is
sure to tread a frightening path for even the most world-
weary crime fiction fan.
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