Carol O'Connell is an American author known for her compelling crime fiction. Her narratives often delve into the complexities of the human psyche, exploring the dark undercurrents of society through intricate plots and atmospheric settings. O'Connell's writing is characterized by its sharp pacing and nuanced character development, drawing readers into suspenseful investigations.
Nedlouho po vynesení sporného osvobozujícího rozsudku v případu vraždy zůstanou naživu pouze tři členové poroty. Ostatní byli zavražděni a kdosi, známý jako Sekáč, podle znamení kosy, které nechává načmárané krví na místě činu, je očividně odhodlaný sprovodit ze světa i zbývající vyděšené porotce. O případ se zajímá detektiv seržant Riker a kolegyně ze zvláštního oddělení newyorské policie, Kathy Malloryová, která chce odhalit totožnost vraha dříve, než dojde k naprostému zesměšnění justice
K několikanásobnému vrahovi, který je nalezen s nůžkami trčícími z prsou a bodcem na led v ruce, jsou zavoláni detektivové ze zvláštního oddělení Kathy Malloryová a její kolega detektiv seržant Riker.. jednou z obyvatelek domu Winterů, kde k vraždě došlo, je sedmdesátiletá Nedda Winterová, která se k vraždě okamžitě přizná; tvrdí, že zabíjela v sebeobraně.
Vražda je objsněna a případ uzavřen. Ale pátrání nekončí.
Nedda Winterová je totiž nejhledanějším dítětem v historii newyorské policie. Pohřešuje se už skoro šedesát let, od té doby, co byla údajně unesena po masakru své rodiny...vyvražděné bodcem na led.
Jak Malloryová a její kolegové, odkrývají historii této rodiny, začíná vyplouvat na povrch neuvěřitelný příběh - příběh obludné chamtivosti a rodinné tragédie, osamění a ztráty, pomsty a zvrácené lásky...
Jednoho horkého srpnového odpoledne je v bytě v East Side nalezena oběšená žena. Pečlivě rozmístěné červené svíčky a spousty mrtvých much ukazují na jakýsi děsivý rituál...
The latest in an evocatively written series featuring free-spirited NYPD sergeant Kathleen Mallory has this odd, intriguing cop taking her act on the road to the rural Louisiana town where she was born. She's trying, at long last, to reach closure in the mysterious death of her mother -- stoned to death by villagers 17 years previous -- and must sift through the creepy, dangerous layers of the past to get answers.
Krimi. A little girl is abandoned in Central Park - her uncle's body in a tree not far away. Recognizing a kindred spirit in the girl, NYPD detective Kathy Mallory takes the case. But her investigation soon leads to a trail of murder and blackmail spanning 15 years
'The new wave of art was first heralded by the graffiti artist who attacked the city walls - artist attacks architecture. Then it progressed to the vandal artist who scarred the art of others -artist attacks art. And now we see a further escalation in the performance - art murder of Dean Starr - artist attacks artist. This is the new wave - Art Terrorism' Bliss was not celebrated for his radical opinions, and no one suspected he might know something about a terrible crime committed twelve years earlier in one of Avril Koozeman's galleries. Inspector Louis Markowitz, who commanded the Special Crime Section in New York, had worked on that original double homicide, and now his adopted daughter, Detective Sergeant Kathy Mallory, wants to reopen the old case - against the Department's wishes. A number of people in high places are also very keen that their secrets remain buried with the dead.
Detective Kathy Mallory finds herself hunting a killer like none she has come
across before in this acclaimed thriller by New York Times bestselling author
Carol O'Connell.
O'Connell ( Judas Child ) deftly demonstrates her own sleight of hand as she recounts NYPD detective Kathleen Mallory's investigation of the "accidental" death of magician Oliver Tree, who died while trying to recreate on live TV the late Max Candle's most famous trick, in which a man survives the fire of four crossbows. As Mallory capitalizes on her friendship with Candle's beloved cousin, Charles Butler, to delve into a WW II mystery involving a group of elderly magicians, all colleagues of Candle and Tree, hints of Mallory's inner life begin to emerge. Once a street kid, the coldly efficient detective comprehends better than most the soul-deadening choices these men made to survive during the war and the cycle of repentance and retribution that have set a deadly game in motion. Mallory is drawn in by the seductive Malakhai, a master of misdirection who is always accompanied by the illusion of his long-dead wife, Louisa. While the detective, in search of answers, uses her high-tech skills to manipulate data banks and to amass information, Charles Butler is in his basement, trying to put together Max's great trick. Meanwhile, the stalwart Sergeant Riker, Mallory's unofficial guardian and staunch defender, is on call. O'Connell adroitly entwines the excitement of Manhattan's Thanksgiving Day parade with the world of illusion and the anguish of war. Her tough realism and hypnotic prose will leave readers eager for more.
Carol O'Connell's latest novel featuring Special Crimes Unit Detective Kathy
Mallory has an almost Dickensian feel. In her own way, O'Connell is as quirky
and elusive as Mallory. [F]or those readers looking to escape the usual police
procedurals, she's the ticket Chicago Tribune
Escaping from the streets of New York when a kind police sergeant takes her in, Kathleen Mallory grows up to become a proud member of the NYPD and embarks on a dangerous case to find her father's murderer. Reprint.
Brilliant computer hacker and NYPD sergeant Kathleen Mallory is forced to test the limits of her intelligence when she confronts a deadly killer who strikes close to home in more ways than one. Reprint.
It is three days before Christmas, and two young girls have disappeared from the local academy. This hasn't happened for fifteen years, since Rouge Kendall's twin sister was murdered. The killer was found, but now Rouge, twenty-five and a policeman, is forced to wonder: Was he really the one? Also wondering is a former classmate named Ali Cray, a forensic Psychologist with scars of her own. The pattern is the same, she says: a child called out to meet a friend. The friend is the bait, the Judas child, and is quickly killed, but the primary victim lives longer...until Christmas Day.
The reviews called it 'a play to die for' after the woman was found dead in the front row. It didn't seem so funny the next night, when another body was found - this time the playwright's, his throat slashed. Detective Kathy Mallory takes over, but no matter what she asks, no one seems to be giving her a straight answer. Every night, an unseen backstage hand chalks up line changes and messages on a blackboard. And the ghostwriter is now writing Mallory into the play itself, a play about a long-ago massacre that may not be at all fictional.
Two teenage brothers go into the woods one day; only one comes back. What happened to the younger brother remains a mystery, until twenty years later, when the older brother, comes home after many years and begins to unravel the mystery when human remains keep appearing. Is Josh coming home bone by bone?
Après avoir rendu un verdict qui acquitte à l'unanimité l'auteur d'un homicide à Chicago, sept des dix jurés sont assassinés. Le " faucheur ", puisque c'est la signature qu'il laisse en lettres de sang sur la scène des crimes, paraît déterminé. Et les trois survivants, terrifiés, se voient de surcroît faire l'objet d'un jeu macabre imaginé par l'animateur d'une radio new-yorkaise : la chasse aux jurés.En congé maladie après avoir pris quatre balles en pleine poitrine, le sergent Riker se découvre tout de suite un profond intérêt pour cette affaire. Quant à sa coéquipière, l'inspecteur Kathy Mallory, elle est plus que jamais déterminée à démasquer ce tueur qui s'amuse à tourner en dérision le système judiciaire par sa folie meurtrière...
Etwas ist faul in diesem Theater am New Yorker Broadway. Erst gruselt sich eine Zuschauerin bei einer Premiere im Saal zu Tode, dann wird der Autor des Stückes in der ersten Reihe umgebracht. »Zum Sterben schön« titelt die Presse über das Stück, doch zum Lachen ist niemandem zumute. Hinter den Kulissen trifft Detective Mallory auf geballtes Zwielicht: einen abgehalfterten Hollywoodstar, eine Hauptdarstellerin auf Koks, ein ziemlich unheimliches Zwillingspaar und einen Ghostwriter, der im Verborgenen die Strippen zieht. Was ist Wahrheit, was Fiktion? Kaum beginnt Mallory zu ahnen, dass das Massaker, um das es in dem Stück geht, gar nicht mal so ausgedacht sein könnte, da scheint auch ihr eine Rolle in dem Drama zugedacht – als die nächste Tote.
