TY  - BOOK
AU  - Connolly,John
TI  - The dirty South
T2  - Charlie Parker thriller
SN  - 9781982127541
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Emily Bestler Books/Atria
KW  - Parker, Charlie "Bird"
KW  - Murder
KW  - Investigation
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Arkansas
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
N1  - A prequel to the Charlie Parker series. Publishing order: follows A book of bones. -- Source: publisher info
N2  - "John Connolly returns with a prequel that goes back to the very beginning of Private Investigator Charlie Parker's astonishing career with his first terrifying case"--; 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 becoming of Charlie Parker. -- adapted from jacket
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