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The man who cast two shadows / Carol O'Connell.
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- ISBN: 0515118907
- ISBN: 9780515118902 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 308 pages ; 18 cm
- Edition: Jove mass-market edition.
- Publisher: New York : Jove Books, 1996.
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| Genre: | Mystery fiction. |
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- Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 1995 April
~ The ultra-tough street kid who grew up to be Sgt. Kathleen Mallory has been suspended from the NYPD after shooting a suspect; she's gone into a consulting partnership with her friend, investigator Charles Butler; and she's been strangled a few blocks from her building--at least according to the TV news. But Mallory's alive; it's only the label in her cashmere jacket, donated to a clothing drive, that has misidentified the dead woman as her. And following the trail of the jacket leads Mallory to late researcher Amanda Bosch, then settles her in an apartment in Amanda's building, long before anybody but the murderer realizes that Amanda's dead. As Mallory, who has the dead-eyed concentration of the men in perfume ads, plots to get the goods on the killer (wife-beating Judge Emery Heart? blind, recently widowed Pulitzer-winner Eric Franz? ``investment counselor'' Harry Kipling, sponging off his heiress wife?), Charles wrestles with an uncanny case of his own: an allegedly psychokinetic kid whose father has buried two wives and may just have plans for his terrified third. If you wondered about all the fuss that greeted Mallory's stunning debut (Mallory's Oracle, 1994), don't miss this chance to meet the strongest new detective of the decade in championship form. (Book-of-the-Month Club main selection; Quality Paperback Book Club selection) Copyright 1999 Kirkus Reviews - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 1995 May
Few mysteries embody the intensity of O'Connell's second Kathy Mallory title. Mallory, a street urchin fostered by a now-dead New York cop and his wife, follows in her father's footsteps as a primo detective. Taken off suspension to cover the murder of a woman at first identified as Mallory herself, she pits her uncanny intelligence and formidable computer skills against a compulsive and evasive adversary. Moments of wry humor invade the author's incisive prose, tempering an admirable female protagonist sure to gather a following. Highly recommended. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 2/1/95.] Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 1995 April #3
O'Connell's second novel (after Mallory's Oracle) brings back NYPD Sergeant Kathy Mallory, plunging this tough-minded yet soulful heroine into another convoluted case. When a woman killed in Central Park is mistakenly identified as Mallory, the former street urchin and computer whiz sets herself up as bait by moving into the apartment building that houses her three main suspects. Using a computer and the building's electronic bulletin board to psych out the killer, she stirs up more than she bargained for?including someone who wants her dead. Other elements in the intelligent plot include a crime of passion, a suspenseful cat-and-mouse game and a boy who may be telekinetic and whose stepmothers keep dying. The dialogue is crisp, the prose supple, but the overall tone is dour, sometimes, in fact, mournful. Not enough of the story is told from Mallory's point of view, however, and O'Connell tends to evoke her mysterious behavior through description rather than through action. As a result, Mallory?who with her bitter youth, street smarts and rough edges carries echoes of Andrew Vachss's Burke?remains an enigma, a major absence at the center of the plot. BOMC and QPB selection. (June) Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information.
