Carol O'Connell

Carol O'Connell's last novel, Dead Famous, made multiple best-of-year lists and won critical acclaim nationwide....

Audie Award Nominee, Best Thriller/Suspense Category, 2013 New York Times best-selling author Carol O’Connell has won a wide fan base with her popular novels starring NYPD detective Kathy Mallory. In The Chalk Girl, a little girl is abandoned in Central Park—with her uncle’s body in a tree...

NYPD sergeant Kathleen Mallory is the gorgeous, near-sociopathic heroine of this knife-edged suspense novel....

The nun was dead. Her body lay on the lawn outside Gracie Mansion, the home of New York City's mayor, and it wasn't alone. There were four of them altogether. They'd been killed at different times, in different places, and dumped there. There should have been five - but the boy was missing...

It is three days before Christmas, and two young girls have disappeared from the local academy. This hasn't happened for 15 years, since Rouge Kendall's twin sister was murdered....

NYPD sergeant Kathleen Mallory is drawn to place far away from home. In a small town in Louisiana, she steps off the train. Within the hour, one man has been assaulted, another has had a heart attack....

The reviews called it "A Play to Die For" after the woman was found dead in the front row. It didn't seem so funny the next night, when another body was found - this time the playwright's, his throat slashed. Detective Kathy Mallory takes over, but no matter what she asks, no one seems to be...

A body is found lying on the ground in Chicago, a dead hand pointing down Route 66, a road of many names and deaths. Kathy Mallory finds herself hunting a killer like no one she has ever known....

In the northern California town of Coventry, two teenage brothers go into the woods one day, but only one comes back....