Synopses & Reviews
The reviews called it A Play to Die For” after a woman was found dead in the front row. It didnt seem so funny the next night when another body was foundthis time the playwright himself, his throat slashed. Detective Kathy Mallory of the NYPD Special Crimes Unit takes over, but isnt getting a straight answer from anyone. Not the lead actor, a movie star fallen on hard luck; not the lead actress, a nervous sort with a dependence on pharmaceuticals; not even the wardrobe mistress, working under an alias; and certainly not the twin actors so unnervingly convincing playing psychos.
Now, backstage, someone has left Mallory a message on the blackboard: Tonights the night. Nothing personal. It appears that she is being written into the play itself, a play about a long-ago massacre that may not be fictional after all.
If Mallory can find out whos responsible, heads will roll. Unfortunately, one of them might be her own.
Review
Scores on all levels. A densely plotted modern gothic and police procedural in one.—
Detroit Free Press
Review
“A rare literary accomplishment…impossible to forget.”—
St. Petersburg Times “Fascinating…Once hooked, readers will gladly surrender to O’Connell’s narrative wiles.”—The Denver Post
“A standout among modern mysteries…Mallory is the most interesting fictional detective I’ve come across in years.”—San Jose Mercury News
Review
Praise for Carol OConnell and for the Mallory novels “...among the best crime fiction ever written.”—San Jose Mercury News
“Mallory…is as fine a fictional creation as the crime genre offers.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times
“OConnell has raised the standard for psychological thrillers.”—Chicago Tribune
“Pop fictions most compelling mystery series…[by] one of Americas finest, but too often overlooked, writers of mysteries.”—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“Scores on all levels.”—Detroit Free Press
“Breaks the usual rules.”—The Baltimore Sun
“Easily one of the most original and striking crime fiction protagonists to appear in the last few years.”—St. Petersburg Times
“A hard-edged, brilliant, and indomitable heroine.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“Darkly stylish…highly original…This is great fun.”—Chicago Tribune
“A tight, twisting mystery.”—Newsday
“Beautifully written.”—Harpers Bazaar
“Mallory is a marvelous creation.”—Jonathan Kellerman
“One of the most interesting new characters to come along in years.”—John Sandford
“One of the most unique, interesting, and surprising heroines youve ever come across in any work of fiction.”—Nelson DeMille
“An author who really involves you, and makes you care.”—James B. Patterson
“Wild, sly, and breathless—all the things that a good thriller ought to be.”—Carl Hiaasen
“One of those books you cant put down.”—The Boston Globe
“An author who can raise goosebumps with both her plot and her prose.”—Detroit Free Press
Synopsis
Jurors on a controversial trial are being killed off one by one, and only Detective Kathleen Mallory can figure out why. But the FBI has told her to lay off and leave it to the Feds. That's never stopped Mallory before.
Synopsis
A reclusive senior citizen kills an intruder—but there's more to the story. In Carol O'Connell's new novel New York City officer Kathleen Mallory purges a woman of her mysterious past—and the flesh-and-blood ghosts of a violent family legacy.
Synopsis
For readers of Stieg Larsson: the sixth Mallory novel from the
New York Times bestselling author of
The Chalk Girl—in trade paperback for the first time.
Police Detective Kathleen Mallory recognized the dead call girl. It was someone from her past, a woman who protected her on the streets of New York—and who betrayed her. Mallory also recognized the crime scene: victim hanging, hair in mouth, fire burning. It happened twenty-one years ago, when Mallory was a child. Now—whether it’s the work of a copy-cat killer or a serial murderer—it has happened again.
Kathleen Mallory’s past has finally caught up with her.
About the Author
Carol OConnell is the New York Times bestselling author of twelve previous books, ten featuring Kathy Mallory, most recently The Chalk Girl, and the stand-alones Bone by Bone and The Judas Child. She lives in New York City.