Carol O'Connell is the author of eleven previous books, nine featuring Kathy Mallory, most recently Find Me, and the stand-alones Judas Child and Bone by Bone. She lives in New York City.
"O'Connell has raised the standard for psychological thrillers."--Chicago Tribune "Before Salander took the world by storm, there was Mallory, the most gloriously original heroine to grace crime fiction's meanest and darkest streets." --Sarah Weinman, Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind "O'Connell's wonderful Mallory novels are among the best crime fiction ever written."--San Jose Mercury News
It has been five years since O'Connell gave us a new novel in her Mallory series, but the action picks up only a few weeks after we last saw Mallory melting down in Find Me. Once again, a child is in jeopardy, one who may be a witness to a series of grisly crimes in New York's Central Park. Coco is an unusual child, but she charms even the antisocial detective Mallory, though her partner, Riker, and friend Charles Butler doubt how deeply she can care for the little girl. But Mallory, who predates both Dexter Morgan and Lisbeth Salander as an unlikely crime-stopping sociopath, does care for Coco-in her own violently protective way. As Mallory and Riker unravel the mystery, older crimes are uncovered, along with the ways adults repeatedly fail the children around them. VERDICT O'Connell offers more than a suspenseful tale; she portrays a complex world of dark and light, corruption and love, in a New York City that retains its grittiness. Another must-read in a compelling and rich crime series. [See Prepub Alert, 7/11/11.]-Devon Thomas, DevIndexing, Chelsea, MI (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
"O'Connell has raised the standard for psychological thrillers."--Chicago Tribune
"Before Salander took the world by storm, there was Mallory, the most gloriously original heroine to grace crime fiction's meanest and darkest streets." --Sarah Weinman, Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind "O'Connell's wonderful Mallory novels are among the best crime fiction ever written."--San Jose Mercury News
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