Series: Kathleen Mallory
by Author Carol O'Connell
Winter House (2005)
Source: LibraryCharacters:Kathy Mallory – detective (series), detective partner Riker; business partner, savant Charles Butler; vic: Willy Roy Boyd; perp Nedda Winter, (Bitty Smyth, Cleo Smyth, Lionel Winter, Sheldon Smyth).Plot: Mallory attends a crime scene--a burglar killed by old woman (Nedda...
Find Me (2006)
i think i'm being generous. i think this book could easily get two stars and it would be okay. yet i loved it for long stretches, and got turned off only towards the end. still, endings count. in the mystery genre, a book that weaves a very complex web but lets you down at the end is a seriously ...
Stone Angel (1998)
The perfect culmination to Mallory's backstory. In a sublimely-paced evolution of character -- both in terms of emotional damage and internal complexity -- O'Connell caps her trilogy of MALLORY'S ORACLE, THE MAN WHO CAST TWO SHADOWS and KILLING CRITICS with a "final chapter" both rich in its own ...
The Man Who Cast Two Shadows (1996)
The badly beaten and decomposed body of a tall blonde woman is found in a New York City park, and when a label inside her blazer states it belongs to Kathleen Mallory the entire NYPD seems to find out in minutes that Mallory is dead. It isn't till her erstwhile partner Riker actually sees the bo...
Mallory's Oracle (1995)
(spoiler alert i wrote this for a discussion on a mailing list at a point in the discussion where spoilers were fair play. so as well as being lengthy it rather gives the plot away. you have been warned.) Mallory is definitely a totally unreal and completely unique character. I haven't come acros...
Allison corre nel buio (2012)
It's been a while since I read this book, so details are sketchy so I'll just give my overall thoughts.Carol O'Connell is an impressive writer. I found the plot interesting and the characters riveting.All but one, that is, her main character, Mallory. What an unlikable troll she is, without a red...