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.

Author: Carol O'Connell
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 09/06/2005
Series: Mallory Novel #8
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 6.72h x 4.26w x 1.03d
ISBN: 9780425204658
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Ingram Paperback Advance 09/01/2005 pg. 35

About the Author
Carol O'Connell is the New York Times bestselling author of the Mallory series, including Mallory's Oracle, The Man Who Cast Two Shadows, Killing Critics, Stone Angel, Shell Game, Crime School, Dead Famous, Winter House, Find Me, The Chalk Girl, It Happens in the Dark, and Blind Sight. She is also the author of two stand-alones, Judas Child and Bone By Bone. O'Connell lives in New York City.