"In South Carolina, a young black man faces the death penalty on charges of raping and murdering Marianne Larousse, daughter of one of the richest men in the state. The case, which nobody wants to investigate, is rooted in an evil back to the distant past, the type of mystery that has become the specialty of detective Charlie Parker. He knows that is about to plunge into a real nightmare and introduced into a blood-stained scene that mixes the spectrum murderer of a hooded woman, a black car waiting for a passenger that never comes, and the complicity of both friends and foes in the events surrounding the death of Marianne Larousse. Rather than an investigation, is a descent into the abyss, a confrontation with the dark forces that threaten all that Parker loves. "
Connolly, an author who entered the police-esoteric genre with the first novel Charlie Parker series, "Everything dies" I care enough to keep a watchful eye each time you publish a new job. Unfortunately, as is un-American author of crime novels and enters southern lands that could be considered fantasy, he begins to lose some of its literary bellows, because of arguments that mix Satan entangled with the Mafia, historical relics with angels Fallen, beautiful tormentors with wars between Good and Evil with a capital. But still, "The White Road" keeps the curious magic Connelly deployed at the beginning of the series: a formula that combines the environment Voodoo fan, stifling South Carolina, tortured and complex characters, ghostly, frightening psychopaths and blood, many human blood. With a powerful flashback which tells the burning of a poor man by the Ku Klux Klan, Connolly picks up the loose ends and left in "Everything dies" and "Profile murderer" and rescues the charismatic Reverend Faulkner, one of the most heinous serial killer novels seen in this category (I refer to Hannibal Lecter.) This means that readers who are interested to become familiar with the author, must begin with the first book, because the volumes in the series can neither be read independently.
back to "The White Road", Connolly magnifies your best resources here: both a description of atmospheres and landscapes with morbid detail (those swamps get really get the reader between the stinking fumes and rotting vegetation of the place) as a splendid dialogues "Charlie Parker's interview with Faulkner is retrospective, and the irruption of supernatural elements that would lower the tone of the novel, increase the sense of mystery and power beyond human understanding that the author has hinting since the series began. Too bad that reading sometimes stumbled forward, holds and weaknesses of a very thick narrative ambition, who wants to cover too much and ultimately falls short. A Connolly will miss the spider plots, which has a hard time picking the threads that have been scattering to Throughout his novels. In "The White Road" gets more poise than in his previous novels and closes the story with us clean and painless, leaving a good taste of a satisfactory reading, even thrilling.
DATA BOOK TITLE: "THE WHITE WAY"
AUTHOR: JOHN CONNOLLY
EDITORIAL: TUSQUETS
YEAR: 200
SCORE **** (four shots)
back to "The White Road", Connolly magnifies your best resources here: both a description of atmospheres and landscapes with morbid detail (those swamps get really get the reader between the stinking fumes and rotting vegetation of the place) as a splendid dialogues "Charlie Parker's interview with Faulkner is retrospective, and the irruption of supernatural elements that would lower the tone of the novel, increase the sense of mystery and power beyond human understanding that the author has hinting since the series began. Too bad that reading sometimes stumbled forward, holds and weaknesses of a very thick narrative ambition, who wants to cover too much and ultimately falls short. A Connolly will miss the spider plots, which has a hard time picking the threads that have been scattering to Throughout his novels. In "The White Road" gets more poise than in his previous novels and closes the story with us clean and painless, leaving a good taste of a satisfactory reading, even thrilling.
DATA BOOK TITLE: "THE WHITE WAY"
AUTHOR: JOHN CONNOLLY
EDITORIAL: TUSQUETS
YEAR: 200
SCORE **** (four shots)
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