The Dirty South

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Author
John Connolly
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Genre
Crime Fiction
Released
20 August, 2020
ISBN
9781529398335

The Dirty South

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Synopsis

Witness the birth of a hunter. Witness the becoming of Charlie Parker.It is 1997, and someone is slaughtering young black women in Burdon County, Arkansas.But no one wants to admit it, not in the Dirty South.In an Arkansas jail cell sits a former NYPD detective, stricken by grief. He is mourning the death of his wife and child and searching in vain for their killer. He cares only for his own lost family.But that is about to change . . .Witness the becoming of Charlie Parker.
John Connolly
About the author

John Connolly

John Connolly was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1968 and has, at various points in his life, worked as a journalist, a barman, a local government official, a waiter and a dogsbody at Harrods department store in London.His first novel, Every Dead Thing was published in 1999, and introduced the character of Charlie Parker, a former policeman hunting the killer of his wife and daughter.Since then he as been a literary fixture, publishing over 15 novels across a range of genres and age groups.

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