The Dirty South

Its place in Charlie Parker

The Dirty South is book 20 in the Charlie Parker series. It follows A Book of Bones. It is followed by The Nameless Ones. 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…