Title: The white road
Subtitle: a thriller
First published: 2002
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.
Subjects: Private investigators, Charlie "Bird" Parker (Fictitious character), Lawyers, Race relations, Fiction, Investigation, Charlie Parker (Fictitious character), Murder, Parker, Charlie Bird" (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.", Private investigators -- South Carolina -- Fiction., Race relations -- Fiction., South Carolina -- Fiction., Parker, charlie bird" (fictitious character), fiction", Private investigators, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, South carolina, fiction
Places: South Carolina