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...
This outstanding novel by Carol O'Connell is about a cold case. A teenage boy was killed 20 years prior to the story, and his brother has come home for the first time since the murder. The brother, Oren, is drawn into a quest for truth when he learns that someone has been leaving his brother's bo...
Unlike O'Connell's other books (the fab Mallory Series that ends with Find Me) this meticulously- plotted tale introduces handsome Oren Hobbs, returned to his home in a small California coastal town after two decades absence. Oren discovers someone's bones are being left on his father's front por...
(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...
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...
"Deve ser reconfortante estarmos apaixonados por nós próprios. Não há o medo da rejeição - nunca."O'Connell conta-nos uma história sobre um assassino de crianças, ao mesmo tempo que faz uma análise, mais ou menos profunda, do comportamento humano.Duas raparigas desaparecem: uma filha de important...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
It was stuck fast in the mud. He dropped a bulky laundry bag in the grass at the side of the road, and then he did a crane dance on one foot as he pulled the shoe out of the muck and slipped it back on. He settled down beside the cloth bag on the grass and tightened the shoelaces, as though that ...
She says he can’t come back till Mr Carlyle fixes his last mess. Girl trouble, she says. Humphrey’s got a thing for little girls. And all this time, I thought her brother wanted to be a girl. But who is Mr Carlyle? Maybe he’s Humphrey’s therapist? ‘No, he’s only a toady,’ says Phoebe. One night a...
Though it had not seen any human remains for more than half a century, it was intact, all its original furnishings and tools kept as historical mementos. Anticipating a special delivery, the chief medical examiner had selected this small room for privacy and secrecy.“Gallbladders?” Dr. Edward Slo...
They fight just as hard when their arms are broken. They fight to the death. —The Brass Bed, Act III This was all wrong—like reading another man’s diary. Carpetbagger. Captain Halston had entered the incident room uninvited a...
Long flanking rows of pine trees ended where the modern public road met this private one of ancient cobblestones. Though there was no proper name on any map, the townspeople called it the Christmas tree lane. Hidden beyond the west bank of evergreens lay all the brown dead leaves of a bare-branch...
