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O'Connell, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099505282 ISBN 13: 9780099505280

Publisher: Arrow, 2008

Synopsis

A mutilated body is found lying on the ground in Chicago, a dead hand pointing down Adams Street, also known as Route 66, a road of many names. And now of many deaths.

A silent caravan of cars, dozens of them, drives down the road, each passenger bearing a photograph, but none of them the same. They are the parents of missing children, some recently disappeared, some gone a decade or more - all brought together by the word that children's gravesites are being discovered along the Mother Road.

Detective Sergeant Kathy Mallory drives with them. The child she seeks, though, is not like the others. It is herself - the feral child adopted off the streets, her father unknown, her mother dead, their past a mystery. During the next few extraordinary days, Mallory will find herself hunting a killer like none she has come across before, and uncovering the secrets that have haunted her all her life.

About this title

Review:

"Carol O'Connell, an excellent writer, has created a heroine who seems capable of committing any crime she is accused of, yet has you rooting for her from the start." (Daily Telegraph)

"A tightly wrapped, expert combination of suspense, mystery and show-stopping character" (New York Times)

"Intelligent, honed and taunting" (New York Daily News)

"O'Connell is a consummate story-teller - a unique talent who deserves to be a household name" (Val McDermid)

"It is seldom that critics make a unanimous judgement. But when O'Connell unleashed New York cop Kathy Mallory on an unsuspecting world in Mallory's Oracle, everyone agreed that there had never been a fictional detective like her ... Mallory grips us like a hand on the throat" (The Times)

From the Publisher:

The final novel in the bestselling Mallory series

About this edition

• Publisher: Arrow
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0099505282
• ISBN 13: 9780099505280
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464