A River Red With Blood : the spellbinding new Charlie Parker novel

by Connolly, John | Crime & mystery
Published 07/05/2026 by Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom as part of the Charlie Parker Thriller series
Hardback | 416 pages, N/A
241 x 164 x 38mm | 638g

'John Connolly is such a brilliant author, I recommend any of his stuff' Richard Osman on The Rest is Entertainment'[An] absolute corker from Ireland's best mystery writer ... utterly gripping' ExpressThe players call it The Game. There are just two rules:No killing close to home. No Killing outside the gameBut what happens when those rules get broken?When the drowned body of a troubled teenager is recovered from a river in Maine's Kennebec Valley, and a young woman disappears from a small rural town, they draw the attention of the private investigator named Charlie Parker. Now Parker will be forced to confront a band of men without morality and without loyalty, not even to one another, in a place where the very darkness is alive.

Because something has emerged from the shadows, something very bad.

And it wants revenge.