
A River Red With Blood
the spellbinding new Charlie Parker novel
$29.63
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
4 May 2026
Summary
The players call it The Game. There are just two rules:
No Killing Close to Home. No Killing Outside the Game.
But 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399758475 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1399758470 |
| Author: | John Connolly |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 4 May 2026 |
| Weight: | 514g |
| Dimensions: | 36mm x 235mm x 167mm |
| Series: | Charlie Parker Thriller |
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About The Author
John Connolly
John Connolly is author of the Charlie Parker mysteries, The Book of Lost Things, the Samuel Johnson novels for young adults and, with his partner, Jennifer Ridyard, co-author of the Chronicles of the Invaders. John Connolly’s debut - EVERY DEAD THING - introduced the character of Private Investigator Charlie Parker, and swiftly launched him right into the front rank of thriller writers. All his subsequent novels have been Sunday Times bestsellers. He was the winner of the 2016 CWA Short Story Dagger for On the Anatomization of an Unknown Man (1637) by Frans Mier from NIGHT MUSIC: Nocturnes Vol 2.
In 2007 he was awarded the Irish Post Award for Literature. He was the first non-American writer to win the US Shamus award and the first Irish writer to win an Edgar award. BOOKS TO DIE FOR, which he edited with Declan Burke, was the winner of the 2013 Anthony, Agatha and Macavity awards for Best Non-Fiction work.
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