Carol O'Connell: Winter House (UK 2014)

From the Publisher:
A reclusive pensioner kills an intruder, but there's more to this murder than meets the eye in the eighth novel in the Kathy Mallory series from New York Times bestseller Carol O'Connell.

Mallory Book 8: the eighth 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 secret that has yet to claim its final victim

When a known serial killer is found at Winter House, with shears sticking out of his chest and an ice pick in his hand, NYPD detective Kathy Mallory is called in to investigate. At the scene of the crime seventy-year-old Nedda Winter immediately confesses to the killing, claiming it was self-defence. Case closed.

However, Nedda is in fact the most famous lost child in NYPD history, missing for almost sixty years, thought to be kidnapped following the massacre of her family... with an ice pick.

And a remarkable story begins to emerge, of murderous greed and family horror, abandonment and loss, revenge and twisted love.

Carol O'Connell: Winter House. It was dark when she stabbed him the first time. A Mallory Novel. Headline, ISBN: 9781472212856 (November, 2014), 352 p., £8.99.

Carol O'Connell: Winter House (UK 2006)

From the Publisher:
When a serial lady-killer is found with shears sticking out of his chest and an ice pick in his hand, Kathy Mallory and her NYPD Special Crimes partner Detective Sgt. Riker are called in to investigate. One of the occupants of Winter House, the scene of the crime, is 70-year-old Nedda Winter, who immediately confesses to the killing, claiming it was self-defence. Murder solved, case closed. It's even poetic justice. But Winter House is the site of a massacre that took place 50 years previously and doesn't give up its dead so easily. Mallory and Riker will have to reopen the original investigation in order to try and stop the murderer from finishing what they started.

Carol O'Connell: Winter House. Arrow, ISBN: 0099478951 (November, 2006), 355 p., £6.99.

Carol O'Connell: Winter House (USA 2005)

From the Publisher:
A reclusive senior citizen kills an intruder -- but there's more to the story. In Carol O'Connell's new novel New York City officer Kathleen Mallory purges a woman of her mysterious past -- and the flesh-and-blood ghosts of a violent family legacy.

Carol O'Connell: Winter House. Berkley Publishing Group, ISBN: 0425204650 (September, 2005), 368 p., $7.99.

Carol O'Connell: Winter House (UK 2005)

From the Publisher:
Never has Kathy Mallory faced as many surprises as in the case before her now. A burglar has been caught in the act and stabbed by a seventy-year-old woman wielding sewing scissors. On the face of it, it looks like an open-and-shut case -- except that the homeowner turns out to be the most famous lost child in NYPD history. She had been missing for almost sixty years and was thought to have been kidnapped following the massacre of almost all her family: five siblings, father, stepmother, nanny, and housekeeper -- wiped out with an ice pick.

Carol O'Connell: Winter House. Hutchinson, ISBN: 0091796644 (June, 2005), 306 p., £12.99.

Carol O'Connell: Winter House (USA 2004)

From the Publisher:
Carol O'Connell's last novel, Dead Famous, made multiple best-of-year lists and won critical acclaim nationwide. "O'Connell brings a hard edge of greatness to the crime thriller," wrote the San Jose Mercury News. "A tough and brilliant action-, wit-, and surprise-packed novel."

But never has Mallory faced as many surprises as in the case before her now. It seems cut-and-dried at first: a burglar has been caught in the act and killed by an ice pick-wielding home owner. Except that the home owner turns out to be the most famous lost child in NYPD history, missing for almost sixty years, thought to have been kidnapped following the massacre of her family: five siblings, father, stepmother, nanny, and housekeeper -- nearly the entire household wiped out... with an ice pick.

Filled with the intricate plotting and extraordinary characterization that are O'Connell's hallmarks, Winter House is her most powerful-and most astonishing-novel yet.

Carol O'Connell: Winter House. A Mallory Novel. Putnam's, ISBN: 0399152113 (October, 2004), 306 p., $24.95.