Mystery Women Authors

Carol O'Connell

Biography

Carol O'Connell was born in New York City in 1947. Since becoming a sought-after author, Carol O'Connell's world has changed in some ways, but not that much. Her first major purchase with the money was a root canal, and then she took her cockatoo to the vet.

Later she bought a microwave oven -- with an automatic popcorn setting. O'Connell does have a new apartment on the upper West side, but she says, "it's not big, it's just the neighborhood is quieter. The apartment is eccentric too -- it was owned by an old showgirl and the buzzer doesn't work so you have to call from the deli on the corner.

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Books

Kathy Mallory NYPD Mysteries

Mallory's Oracle

Kathleen Mallory, an extraordinary wild child turned New York City detective, is propelled onto the street when her adoptive father--a police inspector--is found stabbed to death next to the body of a wealthy woman. The murders are linked to two homicides her father had been investigating and now his cases become Mallory's, his death her cause. (From Amazon.com synopsis)

An Edgar Award Nominated Book

Published Jove Books 1995

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The Man Who Cast Two Shadows (UK The Man Who Lied to Women)

Mallory takes a personal interest in the case when the evening news reports that one Kathleen Mallory has been murdered on New York's Upper West Side. Of course, it's not Mallory at all but a case of mistaken identity--the victim was wearing Mallory's blazer. The single-minded cop uses a combination of intuition, intrigue, and some not-quite-legal computer tricks to pursue the killer. But Mallory's old friend Charles Butler, the gentle giant genius, argues that Mallory should use more orthodox methods of simple logic and deductive reasoning, and the two inevitably clash. (From Amazon.com synopsis)

Published Jove Books 1996

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Killing Critics

Mallory investigates the murder of artist and quickly connects it with a double homicide and dismemberment originally investigated by Mallory's now-deceased adoptive father, Louis Markowitz. As she probes into the new murder, Mallory finds herself traveling in an intricately-connected world of envy, greed and lethal passions. (From Amazon.com synopsis)

Published Jove Books 1997

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Stone Angel

In a small town in Louisiana, NYPD Sergeant Kathleen Mallory steps off a train. Within an hour, a man has been murdered, and Mallory is in jail, though she has had nothing to do with the event. She is there for an entirely different purpose. Seventeen years earlier, Mallory's mother died in this town, stoned to death by a mob; and the six-year-old Mallory had disappeared, to reappear later on in the streets of New York. Now she's back to find out who killed her mother and what happened to the body, vanished as well, its only trace a winged angel in the local cemetery. (From Publisher)

Published Putnam in Hardcover 1998

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Judas Child

A priest and a psychiatrist share one trait in common: they will go to any lengths to protect the confidentiality and privacy of their clients. How far they should go is a question of moral debate, especially when the confessor is a pedophile serial killer. For fifteen years, a priest has been locked away in jail after being convicted of murdering a little girl. The town’s elderly psychiatrist risks cardiac arrest before breaking the oath of confidentiality that might have changed the course of events. Fifteen years ago, Rouge Kendall’s twin sister is sexually violated before being killed. Her abused corpse is found on Christmas Day.

Now a decade and a half later, with just three shopping days left till Christmas, two young girls are abducted. Forensic psychiatrist Ali Cray, niece of the town psychiatrist believes that the convicted priest is innocent and a pedophile has roamed free ever since. Rouge plans to learn the truth no matter how many skeletons must be rattled.

In a 180-degree reversal from her renowned Mallory series, Carol O’Connell scribes one of the most profound, absorbing, and thought-provoking psychological thrillers on the market today. JUDAS CHILD is a heart stopping work of suspense, starring two endearing children who capture the readers’ soul from the start. Most frightening is Ms. O’Connell’s ability to make the audience believe that an ordinary person can cloak the soul of an evil monster. This is a special novel that shows the eloquent and insightful writing style of a master. (From Amazon.com) A review from Harriet Klausner - [email protected] 04/22/98, rating=10:

Published June 1998

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Last updated 20 November 1998