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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...

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.

Sadie's purple bike was found abandoned at the bus stop. Then her friend disappeared, which led the police to propose a runaway theory to the press. But State Police Investigator Rouge Kendall wasn't convinced, thinking back 15 years to the imprisonment of Father Paul Marie for a similar crime.

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.

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