Carol O. Connell Knihy

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 on paid sick leave after a teenage psychopath pumped four bullets into his chest, has a keen but unofficial interest in the case. And his NYPD Special Crimes partner, Kathy Mallory, orphan, sociopath and computer genius, is resolute that there will be no more personal defections in her life, and determined to discover the identity of the killer before he, or she makes a complete mockery of justice. Meanwhile, on his increasingly popular radio show, Ian Zachary, plays a sick and dangerous game - Hunt the Juror.

In this riveting thriller from New York Times bestselling author Carol O'Connell, New York City officer Kathleen Mallory purges a woman of her mysterious past—and the flesh-and-blood ghosts of a violent family legacy. At first, NYPD detective Kathleen Mallory thinks the case is simple: a burglar caught in the act and stabbed with an ice pick by a vulnerable homeowner. Except that the dead man was not a burglar, but a hired killer. And the homeowner is the most famous missing child in NYPD history, believed kidnapped more than sixty years ago after the massacre of her entire family...by an ice pick. As Mallory investigates, an astonishing story emerges, one of murderous greed and family horror, abandonment and loss, revenge and twisted love—and a terrifying secret that has yet to claim its final victim.

New York City policewoman Kathy Mallory investigates the murder of a prostitute named Sparrow, a woman who had taken her in many years ago only to betray her, as part of a crime that seems to mimic one that happened two decades earlier.

The young stranger came to town just past twelve noon. Within an hour, the idiot had been assaulted, hands bloodied and broken; Deputy Travis suffered a major stroke at the wheel of his patrol car; and Babe Laurie was found murdered. The young stranger who had preceded all of these events was sitting in a jail cell ... That stranger is Kathy Mallory. Having left her detective's badge back in New York, she has made her way to Dayborn, a small town in the wetlands of Louisiana. There, seventeen years earlier, an unspeakably brutal act had changed her life forever. Now she is back to take a very personal revenge ...

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

When Kathleen Mallory was ten she was a street kid and a thief. Then a cop called Markowitz took her home to her wife to civalize 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 high-tech computer networks and behind the blinds of genteel Gramercy Park - and an investigation into the chilly heart of it's damaged and elusive heroine.

Fifteen 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 with under the skin knowledge of the man's mind and the bare clue of a lie. Mallory holds on the one truth: everybody lies, and some lies can get you killed. And she knows that, to trap the killer, she must put her own life at risk, for this killer has taken a personal interest in her.

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.

Quando un serial killer viene trovato morto in una ricca dimora di New York, con un paio di forbici piantate nel petto e un punteruolo da ghiaccio in mano, Kathy Mallory è chiamata a investigare. Apparentemente si tratta di legittima difesa. L'uomo si era intrufolato di notte nella grande casa sul Central Park, forse per rubare, suscitando la reazione di Nedda Winter, un'anziana signora che non ha alcun problema a confessare il suo omicidio. Il caso sembra chiuso. Se non fosse che la vittima è un serial killer arrestato da Mallory e libero su cauzione, e Nedda Winter è l'unica sopravvissuta a una strage compiuta a Winter House sessant'anni prima, in cui erano stati uccisi tutti gli abitanti della casa con un punteruolo da ghiaccio...