The Dirty South - Charlie Parker, Bk 18 Author:John Connolly It is 1997, and someone is slaughtering young black women in Burdon County, Arkansas. — But no one wants to admit it, not in the Dirty South. — In an Arkansas jail cell sits a former NYPD detective, stricken by grief. He is mourning the death of his wife and child, and searching in vain for their killer. He cares only for his own lost family. — But... more » that is about to change . . .