NYPD Detective Kathleen Mallory is back--to face her most terrifying obsession--the murder of her own mother...
Detective Kathy Mallory.
The troll was on top of him, whole again, straddling him, squeezing his sides with stone thighs. But Iggy could not lift his hands to fend it off; he had gone to stone himself. He could only watch. Ribs aching, close to breaking.
Its high stone arch was flanked by elegant cornices and columns of the early 1900s. Hexagonal patterns on the concave wall echoed the shape of the plaza's paving stones, where a standing audience was herded behind velvet ropes.
A blind child and a Catholic nun disappear from a city sidewalk in plain sight of onlookers.
Dann ging er die kleine Treppe hinunter, um die alte Dame besser aufs Korn nehmen zu können. Sie lag an der Wand, auf der sich blutig der Abdruck ihrer Hand abzeichnete. Immer wieder drückte er auf den Auslöser. Still und ohne Protest, ...
Die Polizistin blieb stehen und schaute sich im Lokal um, nahm dann eine vorübereilende Kellnerin aufs Korn und brachte die erschöpfte Servicekraft mit einem kurzen Winken ihrer Hand zum Stoppen. Offenbar besaß Mallory Superkräfte, ...
Die Autorin nahm das nächste Elternpaar aufs Korn. Charles wandte sich an den FBI-Profiler. »Finden Sie wirklich, dass das eine gute Idee ist? Schließlich geht es in ihrem Buch um Serienmörder.« »Ich habe versucht, sie zu bremsen.
It happened twenty-one years ago, when Mallory was a child. Now—whether it’s the work of a copy-cat killer or a serial murderer—it has happened again. Kathleen Mallory’s past has finally caught up with her.
Après avoir rendu un verdict qui acquitte à l'unanimité l'auteur d'un homicide à Chicago, sept des dix jurés sont assassinés.
Formerly a child of the streets, now a brilliant computer hacker and NYPD sergeant, Kathleen Mallory's powerful intelligence is matched only by the ferocity with which she pursues her own unpredictable vision of right and wrong.
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...
When a legendary magic trick goes fatally wrong on live television, everyone believes that it had been a horrible accident, except for an aging magician in a private New York hospital and former streetchild-turned-NYPD officer Kathleen ...
In the wake of two murder cases--one involving a Chicago FBI agent, the other murdered jurors from New York--Mallory is challenged to link the two crimes despite federal resistance. 60,000 first printing.
When a burglar is caught in the act and killed by an ice pick-wielding home owner, Mallory discovers that the home owner is actually a long-lost child who vanished sixty years earlier following the massacre of her entire family with an ice ...
New York City policewoman Kathy Mallory investigates the murder of a prostitute named Sparrow, a woman who had taken her in many years ago only to betray her, as part of a crime that seems to mimic one that happened two decades earlier.
The disappearances of two young girls from a local academy bring back terrifying memories for Rouge Kendall, a young policeman whose own twin sister had been murdered in a similar case some fifteen years earlier, and his classmate, forensic ...
When a children's gravesite is found along Adams Street, dozens of parents come seeking their missing children, some gone a decade or more, and Kathy Mallory, a feral child adopted off the street, searches for answers about her past.
After two patrons at a play are found murdered on successive nights, detective Kathy Mallory investigates the killings along with the mysterious backstage chalkboard messages in the latest mystery in the series following The Chalk Girl.
The FBI man had spotted them and walked up to the table , saying , “ I'm looking for Darwinia Sohlo . ” “ You don't need to talk to her , ” said Mallory at his back . The agent jumped and spun around . Riker grinned .