02423cam a2200337 4500 1022546585 TxAuBib 20171114120000.0 160129t20152003||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015-506624 9781501122651 softcover 1501122657 softcover DLC eng DLC DLC TxAuBib Connolly, John. The white road : a Charlie Parker thriller / John Connolly. 1st Emily Bestler/Atria Pbk. ed. New York : Emily Bestler Books/Atria, 2015. ©2003. xiv, 398 p. ; 21 cm. Charlie "Bird" Parker series ; ; 4 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. 20171114. Barry Award winner for Best British Crime Novel, 2003. Parker, Charlie "Bird" (Fictional character) Fiction. Private investigators Fiction. Race relations Fiction. Mystery fiction. South Carolina Fiction. Charlie "Bird" Parker series ; ; 4. TXNES