The white road

By John Connolly

Subjects: Charlie Parker (Fictitious character), South Carolina -- Fiction., Parker, Charlie "Bird" (Fictitious character) -- Fiction., Investigation, South carolina, fiction, Race relations -- Fiction., Charlie "Bird" Parker (Fictitious character), Private investigators, fiction, Lawyers, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Private investigators -- South Carolina -- Fiction., Murder, Fiction, Private Investigators, Parker, charlie "bird" (fictitious character), fiction, Race relations, Private investigators

Description: 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 make 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, a fanatical preacher 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.