{"product_id":"2940170804023","title":"The White Road: A Thriller","description":"\u003cb\u003eJohn Connolly thrilled readers with his bestselling novels, \u003ci\u003eEvery Dead Thing, Dark Hollow,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Killing Kind.\u003c\/i\u003e Now he delivers spellbinding suspense as Charlie Parker races to unravel a brutal crime committed in the Deep South.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e After years of suffering unfathomable pain and guilt over the murders of his wife and daughter, private detective Charlie Parker has finally found some measure of peace. As he and his lover, Rachel, are awaiting the birth of their first child and settling into an old farmhouse in rural Maine, Parker has found the kind of solace often lost to those who have been touched by true evil. \u003cbr\u003e But darkness soon descends when Parker gets a call from Elliot Norton, an old friend from his days as a detective with the NYPD. Now practicing law in Charleston, South Carolina, Elliot is defending a young black man accused of raping and killing his white girlfriend, the daughter of a powerful Southern millionaire. Reluctantly, Parker agrees to help Elliot and by doing so ventures into a living nightmare, a bloody dreamscape haunted by the specter of a hooded woman and a black car waiting for a passenger who never arrives. Beginning as an investigation into a young woman's death, it is a fast-moving descent into an abyss where forces conspire to destroy all that Parker holds dear. \u003cbr\u003e Hailed as a \"master storyteller\" \u003ci\u003e(The London Express)\u003c\/i\u003e by critics stateside and abroad, Connolly has once again delivered a riveting and suspenseful story that draws readers toward the horrifying crossroads of the past and present, of the living and the dead. \"We are trapped not only by our own history but by the histories of all those with whom we choose to share our lives,\" he writes. As chillingly as it is beautifully rendered, \u003ci\u003eThe White Road\u003c\/i\u003e is sure to tread a frightening path for even the most world-weary crime fiction fan.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47105175159024,"sku":"2940170804023","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170804023_p0.jpg?v=1763718029","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170804023","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}