Il cadavere di una donna dalle mani spappolate viene ritrovato al Central Park di Manhattan. In assenza di impronte e di documenti il detective Palanski identifica la vittima in base al nome sull'etichetta della giacca: ? Cathy Mallory, geniale e irriducibile cane sciolto della sezione Crimini Speciali della Polizia di New York, recentemente sospesa dal servizio per motivi disciplinari. Quando il notiziario di mezzogiorno la informa della propria morte, Mallory si getta nelle indagini con foga. E scopre che la vittima ? in realt? Amanda Bosh, venticinquenne da tempo coinvolta nella relazione con un facoltoso uomo sposato. Per stanare l'assassino Mallory ? pronta a tutto, persino a trasformarsi in un vera e propria esca umana.
A stunning stand-alone novel from the national-bestselling author who 'has raised the standard for psychological thrillers' (Chicago Tribune).Carol O'Connell's most recent Mallory novel, Find Me, was one of the most highly praised suspense novels of the year. 'A terrific find: a tightly wrapped, expert combination of suspense, mystery and show-stopping character' (Janet Maslin of The New York Times); 'yet another example of the spot-on talents of one of America 's finest writers of mysteries' (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). In Bone by Bone, however, she may have written her most unforgettable novel yet.In the northern California town ...
On a hot August afternoon, in an East Side apartment, a woman is found hanged. Carefully placed red candles and an enormous quantity of dead flies suggest some kind of bizarre ritual.By some cruel miracle, the victim lives, but remains in a coma…Mallory does not recognise her immediately. The blue eyes are undisguised by mascara and purple shadow. The former bleached straw hair has turned a more natural shade of blond. Even the nose is different. And there are no track marks on her arms.Fifteen years have passed since Kathy Mallory lived on ...
Carol O'Connell succeeds triumphantly, once again, in creating an intriguing crime scenario and also an engaging group of characters, all damaged in their own different ways, who pursue their destinies in a city that is both darkly dangerous and resilient to disaster. After bringing in a unanimous and very dubious acquittal in a murder case, only three of the original jurors remain alive. And someone, known only as the 'Reaper' because of the signature of a bloody scythe left at the crime scenes, is clearly determined to make a clean sweep of the terrified survivors. Detective Sgt. Riker, although ...
From one of the most acclaimed crime writers in America comes her most astonishing novel: a story of love, loss, death-and discovery.Over the course of eight novels, Carol O'Connell and her protagonist, New York detective Kathy Mallory, have carved out a unique place for themselves. But all that has been prelude to the remarkable story told in Find Me.A mutilated body is found lying on the ground in Chicago, a dead hand pointing down Adams Street, also known as Route 66, a road of many names. And now of many deaths. A silent caravan of cars, ...
"Le parole della O'Connell sono lucide e affilate come un bisturi." (Carlo Lucarelli)A volte la violenza esplode quando e dove meno te l'aspetti. Come a Dayborn, graziosa cittadina sprofondata nella calda, languida atmosfera della Louisiana. E' lа che, diciassette anni fa, la dottoressa Cass Shelley и morta sotto i colpi di una folla inferocita, lapidata senza pietа per una colpa immaginaria. Da allora, tutti a Dayborn hanno fatto del loro meglio per dimenticare. Tutti tranne Tom Jessop, lo sceriffo che da quasi vent'anni si interroga sul destino della piccola Kathy Shelley, scomparsa subito dopo l'omicidio della madre. Quella ...
Andrew Bliss, art critic pens the phrase "art terrorism" to describe the murder of artist Dean Starr. No one suspects he knows anything about a crime committed in a gallery 12 years earlier. Detective Kathy Mallory wants to reopen the case and a number of people in high places start to get nervous.
Un'anziana ex prostituta viene aggredita, ferita e poi impiccata in uno squallido monolocale di New York. Candele e barattoli pieni di insetti ne circondano il corpo senza vita. La polizia pensa al sinistro rituale di un folle, ma Kathy Mallory, agente della omicidi dai trascorsi misteriosi e dalla mente contorta non ? convinta. Comincia a scavare negli archivi della centrale, a caccia di indizi su un delitto avvenuto anni prima. E scopre che da quel momento qualcuno aspetta che venga l'ora della giustizia. Della vendetta.
When Kathleen Mallory was ten she was a street kid and a thief. Then a cop called Markowitz took her home to his wife to civilize her…Now Mallory is in charge of a complex database and a police officer herself, and someone has just murdered the man she considers her father – the only man she has ever loved.More used to the company of computers than people, Mallory descends into the urban nightmare of New York, to hunt down a cold-blooded killer.Mallory's Oracle is a dangerous chase through the city's underworld, down the fibre-optic cables of hi-tech computer networks and behind the blinds of genteel Gramercy Park – and an investigation into the chilly heart of its damaged and elusive heroine."Something close to a masterwork" – THE TIMES"Sgt Kathleen Mallory is one of the most original and intriguing detectives you'll ever meet" – CARL HIASSEN"A stunning debut" – DAILY MIRROR"A deeply satisfying read" – TIME OUT
In Shell Game, O’Connell raises the standard once again. It is fall in New York City. On live television, the re-creation of a legendary magic trick goes horribly awry – a terrible accident, everyone agrees. But two people know it is not. One is an aged magician in a private hospital in the northern corner of New York state. What a worthy performance, he thinks, murdering a man while a million people watch.The other is Kathleen Mallory. Once a feral child, loose on the city streets, she is now a New York City policewoman, and not much ...
The past comes back to haunt, in the new novel featuring Kathleen Mallory – “the strongest new detective of the decade” (Kirkus Reviews).Carol O’Connell’s novels continue to draw extraordinary praise for her “unforgettable protagonist” (The Miami Herald), “thoroughly original characters” (People), “gifted storytelling” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), and “prose so stunning it takes your breath away” (Mostly Murder), all combining to produce some of the “most stylishly innovative and witty mysteries in years” (San Francisco Chronicle).At their heart is NYPD sergeant Kathleen Mallory, a wild child turned policewoman possessed of a ferocious intelligence and a ...
‘Mallory’s progress is enthralling…beautifully observed in fine, controlled prose’ – MAIL ON SUNDAYFifteen years after Inspector Louis Markowitz adopted the wild child, no one in New York’s Special Crimes section knew much about Kathy Mallory’s origins. They only knew that the young cop with the soul of a thief could bewitch the most complex computer systems, could slip into the minds of killers with disturbing ease.In Central Park, a woman dies, while a witness watches, believing the brutal murder to be a prelude to a kiss. Mallory goes hunting the killer, armed ...
When a known serial killer is found with shears sticking out of his chest and an ice pick in his hand, Kathy Mallory and her NYPD Special Crimes partner Detective Sgt. Riker are called in to investigate. One of the occupants of Winter House, the scene of the crime, is 70-year-old Nedda Winter, who immediately confesses to the killing, claiming; it was self-defence.Murder solved, case closed. It s even poetic justice.However Nedda Winter is in fact the most famous lost child in NYPD historv, missing for almost sixty years, thought to he kidnapped following the ...
