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Loading... En lo más profundo del sur (original 2020; edition 2022)by John Connolly (Author)
Work InformationThe Dirty South by John Connolly (2020)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. As I progress through the series, I keep finding that each book is better than its predecessors. The Dirty South is an amazing achievement by one of my favorite authors. Charlie Parker is one of the great creations in fiction, and this novel goes back in time and details his first case, which occurred while searching for the murderer of his wife and child. Mesmerizing and propulsive, this is one of the best books I’ve read this year. Few series have been as consistently fascinating and satisfying as John Connolly's Charlie Parker books. In this flashback novel, Parker travels to Arkansas to follow possible leads in the murders of his wife and daughter. He agrees to stay and help a local police chief look for at least one killer of young Black women. This is while battling corruption on several levels, all while people anticipate a corporation agreeing to build in their county and bring prosperity to many, but especially to those already in power. Charlie Parker, retired New York, detective, has gone South to the small town of Cargill, Arkansas. He is a man with a sad past. Driven ever onward in this search for the murderer of his wife Susan and his beloved daughter Jenifer, he is drawn to dark places, where evil dwells and the brutal business of murder is an unwelcome occurrence. The dehumanized bodies of 2 young girls have been exposed, possibly connected to a similar and earlier discovery. The local chief of police Evander Griffin needs a quick resolve to safeguard future investment and development which would ensure the future of this once prosperous community. For lovers of John Connelly’s brilliant Charlie Parker series this is a prequel with a young detective burdened by the horrors he has witnessed and the great sadness he is doomed forever to carry…..”Either you’re on a crusade said Griffin or you’re trying to find whoever killed your wife and child. My guess is the latter. You’re interested in murders involving mutilation and display, which is what drew you to Cargill”........”Sometimes he believed that he saw them, his lost wife and child. He called glimpses of them in the shadows, or smelled their scent. He conversed with them, and heard their responses. It was not uncommon he knew this conjuring of the dead by the living”.........”he carried himself like someone much older, although that was almost certainly a consequence of all he had endured. He radiated watchfulness without fear, and a self-aware intelligence”..... An antihero forever doomed to seek out answers to understand the reasoning behind the death of his family, in the hope that it might bring peace but in the knowledge that each day takes him further into the void and the blackness that ultimately awaits him. no reviews | add a review
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It is 1997, and someone is slaughtering young women in Burdon County, Arkansas. But no one in the Dirty South wants to admit it. 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. Obsessed with avenging his lost family, his life is about to take a shocking turn. Witness the dawning of a conscience. Witness the birth of a hunter. Witness the becoming of Charlie Parker. No library descriptions found. |
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It is interesting because the reader could actually start with this book and then move on to the first book—Every Dead Thing, in what is an amazing series. ( )