Carol O'Connell: Shark Music (UK 2014)

From the Publisher:
Detective Kathy Mallory finds herself hunting a killer like none she has come across before in this acclaimed thriller by New York Times bestselling author Carol O'Connell.

Mallory Book 9: the nineth 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.

'It's Kathy. I'm lost.'

The 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 drives down the road, each passenger bearing a photograph, but none of them the same. They are the parents of missing children, brought together by the word that children's gravesites are being discovered along with the Mother Road.

Detective Kathy Mallory drives with them.

Carol O'Connell: Shark Music. They search the highway of death. A Mallory Novel. Headline, ISBN: 9781472212870 (December, 2014), 448 p., £8.99.

Carol O'Connell: Shark Music (UK 2008)

From the Publisher:
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.

Carol O'Connell: Shark Music. Arrow, ISBN: 0099505282 (May, 2008), 454 p., £6.99.

Carol O'Connell: Find Me (USA 2007)

From the Publisher:
On Route 66, as word travels that children's grave sites are being discovered along the road, the parents of missing children form a silent caravan. They are being shepherded by NYPD Detective Kathleen Mallory, who seeks a killer like none she has ever known - and a child unlike the others: herself.

Carol O'Connell: Find Me. Berkley Publishing Group, ISBN: 0425217876 (October, 2007), 527 p., $9.99.

Carol O'Connell: Shark Music (UK 2007)

From the Publisher:
'Love is the death of me,' reads the handwritten note. The gunshot victim was found in Detective Sergeant Kathy Mallory's apartment. It is not clear at first if it was homicide or suicide. And Mallory has disappeared... But by a trace of credit card activity, Mallory's faithful partner, Riker, knows that she filled her gas tank in the states of Pennsylvania and Ohio. She is leaving a trail. Eight hundred miles from New York, another corpse has been found - a man, laid out on the tarmac, pointing towards Route 66. Over the years a number of bodies have been discovered along this famous road - all little girls, aged between five and seven. Mallory's mother died when she was only six, and she never knew her father. She was a child of high technology and cold logic, but there is a void within her which could only be filled by recovering her past.

"Shark Music" is Carol O'Connell's finest achievement - a thrilling, complex and emotional novel which explores the hopes and despairs of lost parents and lost children. It is a journey that can only end in tears.

Carol O'Connell: Shark Music. Hutchinson, ISBN: 0091795532 (April, 2007), 352 p., £18.99.

Carol O'Connell: Find Me (USA 2006)

From the Publisher:
From one of the most acclaimed crime writers in America comes her most astonishing novel: a story of love, loss, death-and discovery.

Over the course of eight novels, Carol O'Connell and her protagonist, New York detective Kathy Mallory, have carved out a unique place for themselves. But all that has been prelude to the remarkable story told in Find Me.

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 that 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 word that childrens' grave sites are being discovered along the Mother Road.

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 a blank, her mother dead and full of mysteries. During the next few extraordinary days, Mallory will find herself hunting a killer like none she has ever known, and will undergo a series of revelations not only of stunning intensity - but stunning effect.

Carol O'Connell: Find Me. A Mallory Novel. Putnam's, ISBN: 0399153950 (December, 2006), 352 p., $24.95.