Kathleen MallorySerie

Questa serie segue un'integerrima detective del Dipartimento di Polizia di New York mentre naviga per le strade più dure della città. Ogni caso la porta più a fondo negli oscuri recessi della città e nelle complessità della psiche umana. Con determinazione incrollabile e acuto intelletto, scopre verità spesso più intricate e pericolose di quanto sembrino inizialmente. Le storie fondono avvincenti procedimenti penali con profondi studi sui personaggi.

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Mallory's Oracle
Carol O. Connell
282pagine
10 ore di lettura
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Jonathan Kellerman says Mallory's Oracle is "a joy." Nelson DeMille and other advance readers have called it "truly amazing, " "a classic" with "immense appeal." It is all of that, and more: a stunning debut novel about a web of unsolved murders in New York's Gramercy Park and the singular woman who makes them her obsession. At its center is Kathleen Mallory, an extraordinary wild child turned New York City policewoman. Adopted off the streets as a little girl by a police inspector and his wife, she is still not altogether civilized now that she is a sergeant in the Special Crimes section. With her ferocious intelligence and green gunslinger eyes, Mallory (never Kathleen, never Kathy) operates by her own inner compass of right and wrong, a sense of justice that drives her in unpredictable ways. She is a thing apart. And today, she is a thing possessed. Although more at home in the company of computers than in the company of men, Mallory is propelled onto the street when the body of her adoptive father, Louis Markowitz, is found stabbed in a tenement next to the body of a wealthy Gramercy Park woman. The murders are clearly linked to two other Gramercy Park homicides Markowitz had been investigating, and now his cases become Mallory's, his death her cause. Prowling the streets, sifting through his clues, drawing on his circle of friends and colleagues, she plunges into a netherworld of light and shadow, where people are not what they seem and truth shifts without warning. And a murderer waits who is every bit as wild and unpredictable as she.... Filled with deep, seductive atmosphere and razor-sharp prose, Mallory's Oracle is gripping, resonant suspense of tantalizing complexity—a genuinely unforgettable novel.
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The man who lied to women
Carol O. Connell
304pagine
11 ore di lettura
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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.
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Killing Critics
Carol O. Connell
344pagine
13 ore di lettura
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'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.
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Stone Angel
Carol O. Connell
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The latest in an evocatively written series featuring free-spirited NYPD sergeant Kathleen Mallory has this odd, intriguing cop taking her act on the road to the rural Louisiana town where she was born. She's trying, at long last, to reach closure in the mysterious death of her mother -- stoned to death by villagers 17 years previous -- and must sift through the creepy, dangerous layers of the past to get answers.
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Maestri del Thriller - 29: Louise sparì di notte
Carol O. Connell
439pagine
16 ore di lettura
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L'anziano illusionista Oliver Tree ha dedicato la vita al tentativo di riprodurre la mitica "illusione perduta" del grande collega e maestro Max Candle, famoso per la pericolosità dei suoi trucchi mozzafiato. Però la sera in cui, finalmente, Oliver è pronto per esibirsi di fronte agli spettatori del grande festival di magia di New York qualcosa va storto... Mentre sul palco il prestigiatore muore trafitto dalle frecce che avrebbero dovuto colpirlo solo per finta, il detective Kathy Mallory intuisce che non si è trattato di un semplice incidente e non si rassegna alla decisione dei suoi superiori di archiviare il caso così in fretta.
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La bambina dagli occhi di ghiaccio
Carol O. Connell
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The Jury Must Die
Carol O. Connell
432pagine
16 ore di lettura
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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.
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Winter House
Carol O. Connell
368pagine
13 ore di lettura
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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.
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La strada delle anime perse
Carol O. Connell
461pagine
17 ore di lettura
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La donna è accasciata sul pavimento; il volto di cera, intonso, e gli occhi chiusi danno l’impressione che dorma, di un sonno triste però, senza speranze né desideri. Solo il busto, coperto di sangue e attraversato da una profonda ferita da arma da fuoco, la rende differente dai tanti corpi stanchi che trovano riposo nella notte. Accanto a lei un biglietto con scritto «l’amore mi fa morire».Per il sergente Riker, agente della polizia di New York, il caso potrebbe essere archiviato subito come l’ennesimo suicidio, ma la vittima, Savannah Sirus, è morta nell’appartamento di Kathy Mallory, sua collega al dipartimento, di cui non si hanno notizie da giorni.Nell’appartamento non ci sono tracce di Mallory, ma pare che Savannah abbia vissuto con lei per qualche tempo. Così Riker decide di cercarla, non può che credere alla sua innocenza, ma conosce Mallory e sa che rispettare le regole non è mai stato il suo forte, e questa volta potrebbe costarle la carriera o forse qualcosa di più.A qualche centinaia di chilometri, a Chicago, Kathy si sta occupando di un’indagine personale, seguendo l’ombra di uno spietato serial killer. L’uomo che sta cercando è crudele e ripetitivo, le sue vittime sono bambini, i cui piccoli corpi vengono privati della mano destra e sepolti accuratamente sul ciglio di una strada, sempre la stessa, per tutti: la Route 66, che attraversa il paese e su cui il serial killer, da oltre vent’anni, ha deciso di spargere un’infinita scia di sangue.Per fermare la sua caccia, Mallory sarà costretta a fare i conti con un passato mai veramente dimenticato e a seppellire quei morti che hanno tormentato i suoi incubi fino a quando Savannah non ha bussato alla sua porta.
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The Chalk Girl
Carol O. Connell
448pagine
16 ore di lettura
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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
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It Happens in the Dark
Carol O. Connell
416pagine
15 ore di lettura
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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.
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Blind Sight
Carol O. Connell
432pagine
16 ore di lettura
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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