Carol O'Connell: Crime School (UK 2014)

From the Publisher:
Unfinished business from the past haunts detective Kathy Mallory in New York Times bestselling author Carol O'Connell's sixth novel in the Mallory series.

Mallory Book 6: the sixth NYPD detective Kathy Mallory novel from New York Times bestseller Carol O'Connell, master of knife-edge suspense and intricate plotting.

Detective Kathy Mallory. New York's darkest. You only underestimate her once.

A street kid turned cop.

Fifteen years have passed since a junkie whore and a police informer, known simply as Sparrow, cared for a feral child when she was lost and alone.

Why did she let the hangman in?

Now, on a hot August afternoon, in an East Side apartment, a woman is found hanged. Carefully placed red candles and an enormous quantity of dead flies suggest a bizarre ritual. NYPD detective Kathy Mallory does not recognise her immediately. But soon finds that she is staring her bitter past in the face, as she pursues a case which also has its origin in an unsolved murder committed years ago.

Carol O'Connell: Crime School. Some people never learn. A Mallory Novel. Headline, ISBN: 9781472212931 (October, 2014), 400 p., £8.99.

Carol O'Connell: Crime School (USA 2013)

From the Publisher:
For readers of Stieg Larsson: the sixth Mallory novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Chalk Girl -- in trade paperback for the first time.

Police Detective Kathleen Mallory recognized the dead call girl. It was someone from her past, a woman who protected her on the streets of New York -- and who betrayed her. Mallory also recognized the crime scene: victim hanging, hair in mouth, fire burning. 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.

Carol O'Connell: Crime School. A Mallory Novel. Berkley Books, ISBN: 9780425263525 (April, 2013), 419 p., $16.00.

Carol O'Connell: Crime School (USA 2003)

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Police Detective Kathleen Mallory recognized the crime scene: victim hanging, hair in mouth, fire burning. It happened twenty-one years ago, when Mallory was a child. She also recognized the victim...

Carol O'Connell: Crime School. Jove Books, ISBN: 0515135356 (September, 2003), 408 p., $7.99.

Carol O'Connell: Crime School (UK 2003)

From the Publisher:
On a hot August afternoon, in an East Side apartment, a woman is found hanged. Carefully placed red candles and an enormous quantity of dead flies suggest some kind of bizarre ritual.

By some cruel miracle, the victim lives, but remains in a coma...

Mallory does not recognise her immediately. The blue eyes are undisguised by mascara and purple shadow. The former bleached straw hair has turned a more natural shade of blond. Even the nose is different. And there are no track marks on her arms. Fifteen years have passed since Kathy Mallory lived on the streets of New York, succoured by hookers and thieving to survive. Now she has traded in her plastic pellet gun for a .357 revolver and a police badge. No one is allowed to call her Kathy anymore. Just Mallory.

Once upon a time, a junkie whore and police informer, known simply as Sparrow, had cared for a young street urchin when she was lost and alone. Now Mallory finds that she is staring her bitter past in the face, as she pursues a case which also has its origin in an unsolved murder committed years ago...

Carol O'Connell: Crime School. Arrow, ISBN: 0099441403 (August, 2003), 517 p., £6.99.

Carol O'Connell: Crime School (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
A wild child turned New York City policewoman, Mallory was adopted off the streets as a small girl by police inspector Louis Markowitz, but 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 operates by her own inner compass of right and wrong, a sense of justice that drives her in unpredictable ways. Very little has ever been known about what acutally happened to her in New York before Markowitz found her, how she lived, the remarkable events that shaped her. Until now.

Crime School begins with the discovery of a woman found hanging in a burning apartment, tufts of her own blond hair stuck in her mouth and red candles scattered all around. Immediately, Mallory knows several things. The fire was set so the woman would be discovered. The crime is identical to another one twenty years old. And Mallory knows this woman. She is a prostitute named Sparrow, who took Mallory in those many years ago, and then betrayed her. There is unfinished business between the two of them, and the quest to settle it will send Mallory spinning back to a time of secrets and desperation, and into the mind of a criminal whose work has only just begun.

Carol O'Connell: Crime School. A Mallory Novel. Putnam's, ISBN: 0399149287 (September, 2002), 341 p., $24.95.

Carol O'Connell: Crime School (UK 2002)

From the Publisher:
On a hot August afternoon, in an East Side apartment, a woman is found hanged. Carefully placed red candles and an enormous quantity of dead flies suggest some kind of bizarre ritual.

By some cruel miracle, the victim lives, but remains in a coma...

Mallory does not recognise her immediately. The blue eyes are undisguised by mascara and purple shadow. The former bleached straw hair has turned a more natural shade of blond. Even the nose is different. And there are no track marks on her arms. Fifteen years have passed since Kathy Mallory lived on the streets of New York, succoured by hookers and thieving to survive. Now she has traded in her plastic pellet gun for a .357 revolver and a police badge. No one is allowed to call her Kathy anymore. Just Mallory.

Once upon a time, a junkie whore and police informer, known simply as Sparrow, had cared for a young street urchin when she was lost and alone. Now Mallory finds that she is staring her bitter past in the face, as she pursues a case which also has its origin in an unsolved murder committed years ago...

Carol O'Connell: Crime School. Hutchinson, ISBN: 0091794536 (August, 2002), 397 p., £10.00.