The White Road: A Thriller

Summary

John Connolly thrilledreaders with his bestselling novels, Every Dead Thing, Dark Hollow, and The Killing Kind. Now he delivers spellbinding suspense asCharlie Parker races to unravel a brutal crime committed in the Deep South.

After years of suffering unfathomable pain and guilt overthe murders of his wife and daughter, private detective Charlie Parker hasfinally found some measure of peace. As he and his lover, Rachel, are awaitingthe birth of their first child and settling into an old farmhouse in ruralMaine, Parker has found the kind of solace often lost to those who have beentouched by true evil.

But darkness soon descends when Parker gets a call fromElliot Norton, an old friend from his days as a detective with the NYPD. Nowpracticing law in Charleston, South Carolina, Elliot is defending a young blackman accused of raping and killing his white girlfriend, the daughter of apowerful Southern millionaire. Reluctantly, Parker agrees to help Elliot and bydoing so ventures into a living nightmare, a bloody dreamscape haunted by thespecter of a hooded woman and a black car waiting for a passenger who neverarrives. Beginning as an investigation into a young woman’s death, it is afast-moving descent into an abyss where forces conspire to destroy all thatParker holds dear.

Hailed as a master storyteller, Connolly has once againdelivered a riveting and suspenseful story that draws listeners toward thehorrifying crossroads of the past and present, of the living and the dead. Aschillingly as it is beautifully rendered, TheWhite Road is sure to tread a frightening path for even the mostworld-weary crime fiction fan.