{"product_id":"9781501122651","title":"The White Road : A Charlie Parker Thriller","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe White Road\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): John Connolly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInternationally bestselling author John Connolly 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBut 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...\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A place known only as the White Road.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\"Darkly brilliant, spellbinding and disturbing....One of the best thriller writers we have.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eYou don't want to miss a word of this near-perfect story.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"[Connolly] combines beautiful language with horrifying images to create gripping novels of suspense.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781501122651\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Atria\/Emily Bestler Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40592286974158,"sku":"9781501122651","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_8bf21241-eae8-447a-b6ff-10e83351373d.jpg?v=1637765210","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781501122651","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}