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'Compulsive reading' THE TIMES 'A menacing and unsettling thriller' VAL MCDERMID'A heart-stopping novel of intelligence and suspense' MAIL ON SUNDAYTwo missing girls. Three days to find the killer.When two girls disappear from the small town of Makers Village, it seems that the past is repeating itself for police detective Rouge Kendall. Fifteen years ago his own twin sister was murdered and a man was imprisoned for the crime. But this new case begins to unearth some deadly secrets. Could the wrong man be behind bars?This killer definitely follows a pattern. With the clock ticking in the hunt for the missing girls, Rouge needs to find answers, fast.It's the only hope of finding Gwen and Sadie alive. . .A uniquely gripping thriller for fans of P J Tracy and C J Tudor from New York Times bestselling author Carol O'Connell.READERS LOVE JUDAS CHILD'This is one of the best books I have read' 5* review'Dark, gripping, suspenseful, traumatic. . . one of the best reads I've had for a long time' 5* review'Without doubt one of the best books I have read this year. . . the story line is riveting with a shocking twist at the end' 5* review

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Mallory Book 12: Blind Sight is the twelfth NYPD detective Kathy Mallory novel from New York Times bestseller Carol O'Connell, master of knife-edge suspense and intricate plotting. Fans of Karin Slaughter and Stieg Larsson will be thrilled by New York's darkest cop. 'Carol O'Connell is a consummate storyteller - a unique talent who deserves to be a household name' - Val McDermid Detective Kathy Mallory. New York's darkest. You only underestimate her once.The nun is dead. Her body lies on the mayor's lawn with three others, all killed at different times, in different places, and dumped there. There should be five - but the boy is missing.One second he was there...Jonah Quill, blind since birth, sits in a car driven by a killer and wonders where they are going. Though blind, Jonah sees more than most people do. He's counting on this secret to save his life.Then gone.Detective Kathy Mallory is counting on herself to save his life. It takes her a while to realise that the missing-person case she is pursuing is so intimately connected to the massacre on the mayor's lawn. But she will find Jonah - she just hopes it will be in time.

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The little girl appeared in Central Park: red-haired, blue-eyed, smiling, perfect - except for the blood on her shoulder. It fell from the sky, she said, while she was looking for her uncle, who turned into a tree. Poor child, people thought. And then they found the body in the tree.For NYPD detective, Kathy Mallory, there is something about the girl that she understands. Mallory is damaged, they say, but she can tell a kindred spirit. And this one will lead her to a story of extraordinary crimes; murders stretching back fifteen years, blackmail and complicity and a particular cruelty that only someone with Mallory's history could fully recognise. In the next few weeks, Kathy Mallory will deal with them all ... in her own way.

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Mallory Book 1: the first NYPD detective Kathy Mallory novel from New York Times bestseller Carol O'Connell, master of knife-edge suspense and intricate plotting.Detective Kathy Mallory. New York's darkest. You only underestimate her once.When NYPD Sergeant Kathy Mallory was an eleven-year-old street kid, she got caught stealing. The detective who found her was Louis Markowitz. He should have arrested her. Instead he adopted her, and raised her as his own, in the best tradition of New York's finest.Now Markowitz is dead, and Mallory the first officer on the scene. She knows any criminal who could outsmart her father is no ordinary human. This is a ruthless serial killer, a freak from the night-side of the mind.And one question troubles her more than any other: why did Markowitz go in there alone?

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'Full of twists and turns and it will keep you guessing all the way through to the end!' 5* review'Kept me guessing till the very end. . . struggled to put it down!' 5* review'Carol O'Connell is a one of my favourite writers' 5* reviewTwenty years after the disappearance of his brother, ex-Army Criminal Investigator Oren returns to his family home to discover that human bones have been left on the doorstep. Oren's ageing father believes them to be the bones of Oren's lost brother, Josh, but Oren quickly discovers that the bones are not just his brother's. There is at least one more body.Faced with the horror of multiple victims, Oren is determined to find his brother's killer. But at what cost? In a town full of long-buried secrets, Josh's secret may be the most shocking of all . . .A uniquely gripping thriller, perfect for fans of Susie Steiner and Michael Connelly.'A tightly wrapped, expert combination of suspense, mystery and show-stopping character' New York Times'A fascinating cast of eccentrics, each character beautifully drawn, all of whom have something to hide' Guardian'Carol O'Connell is the most seductively devious writer... BONE BY BONE should make her a star' Daily Telegraph

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Mallory Book 8: the eighth NYPD detective Kathy Mallory novel from New York Times bestseller Carol O'Connell, master of knife-edge suspense and intricate plotting.Detective Kathy Mallory. New York's darkest. You only underestimate her once.A secret that has yet to claim its final victimWhen a known serial killer is found at Winter House, with shears sticking out of his chest and an ice pick in his hand, NYPD detective Kathy Mallory is called in to investigate. At the scene of the crime seventy-year-old Nedda Winter immediately confesses to the killing, claiming it was self-defence. Case closed. However, Nedda is in fact the most famous lost child in NYPD history, missing for almost sixty years, thought to be kidnapped following the massacre of her family... with an ice pick.And a remarkable story begins to emerge, of murderous greed and family horror, abandonment and loss, revenge and twisted love.

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Mallory Book 6: the sixth NYPD detective Kathy Mallory novel from New York Times bestseller Carol O'Connell, master of knife-edge suspense and intricate plotting.Detective Kathy Mallory. New York's darkest. You only underestimate her once.A street kid turned cop.Fifteen years have passed since a junkie whore and a police informer, known simply as Sparrow, cared for a feral child when she was lost and alone.Why did she let the hangman in?Now, on a hot August afternoon, in an East Side apartment, a woman is found hanged. Carefully placed red candles and an enormous quantity of dead flies suggest a bizarre ritual. NYPD detective Kathy Mallory does not recognise her immediately. But soon finds that she is staring her bitter past in the face, as she pursues a case which also has its origin in an unsolved murder committed years ago.

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Mallory Book 5: the fifth NYPD detective Kathy Mallory novel from New York Times bestseller Carol O'Connell, master of knife-edge suspense and intricate plotting.Detective Kathy Mallory. New York's darkest. You only underestimate her once.A cop who knows there is no magic in the worldAt a sell-out festival of magicians in Manhattan, in front of a live audience and eight million television viewers, a death-defying trick goes tragically wrong.NYPD detective Kathy Mallory has learned the hard way that things are rarely what they seem. But she is the only cop who believes the death is not an accident. Welcome to the darker side of NYPD.Hiding behind the smoke and mirrors is a ruthless killer who will soon strike again.

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