Charlie Parker · Book 25

A River Red with Blood

Published
7 May 2026
Pages
461
ISBN-13
9781668083970
Type
novel
Cover of A River Red with Blood

About this book

A River Red with Blood, published May 7, 2026, holds position 23 in the ongoing series at 461 pages, following The Children of Eve as Connolly's most recent Charlie Parker book.

Key facts about A River Red with Blood

John Connolly wrote A River Red with Blood, a novel on our list. It has been out since 7 May 2026. The book has 461 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781668083970 to find the main one.

A River Red with Blood is book 25 of 25 in the Charlie Parker series. The series has 25 published books. However, the series starts with Every Dead Thing (1999). It is also the latest book in the series with a full release date.

Additionally, John Connolly writes The Book of Lost Things, Samuel Johnson and Chronicles of the Invaders as separate series. Those series sit on our supernatural crime, fantasy and young adult shelves. It is also the latest published John Connolly book on file.

About John Connolly

John Connolly is an Irish novelist best known for the Charlie Parker series, which follows a former NYPD detective turned private investigator in Maine and blends hardboiled crime plotting with supernatural horror -- ghosts, ancient evils, and a recurring sense that Parker's cases are connected to something larger and darker than ordinary crime. See every John Connolly book in order.

Its place in Charlie Parker

A River Red with Blood is book 25 in the Charlie Parker series. It follows The Children of Eve. See the full Charlie Parker reading order.

Charlie Parker is a former NYPD detective turned private investigator whose wife and young daughter were murdered before the series begins -- a trauma that never fully recedes and that opens the door to the series' defining move: John Connolly writes hard-edged American crime fiction that is also, unapologetically, ghost story and horror. Parker is haunted, sometimes literally, by the dead he failed to save, and his cases increasingly brush up against something genuinely supernatural and ancient lurking behind…

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