Mallory's Oracle
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
New York City has never felt so dangerous as it does through the eyes of Sergeant Kathleen Mallory, a brilliant, cold-blooded detective with a shadowy past and an uncanny gift for hunting killers. In Mallory's Oracle, Carol O'Connell introduces one of crime fiction's most compelling and enigmatic protagonists, as Mallory investigates a series of murders targeting elderly women — crimes that lead her into the eerie world of psychics, con artists, and the city's underbelly. When the trail connects to the death of her beloved mentor and surrogate father, Lou Markowitz, the case becomes deeply, dangerously personal. O'Connell writes with a razor-sharp precision that cuts between psychological tension and atmospheric noir, presenting a protagonist who is as morally ambiguous as the criminals she pursues. Mallory's Oracle, first published in 1994, launched a celebrated series that would redefine the female detective in American crime fiction, earning O'Connell comparisons to the genre's finest voices. Beneath its gripping plot lies a probing examination of grief, justice, and what it means to be human — or to barely be so at all — leaving the reader compelled to follow Mallory wherever she leads next.
Author: Carol O'Connell
Format: Paperback
Genre: Crime fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
New York City has never felt so dangerous as it does through the eyes of Sergeant Kathleen Mallory, a brilliant, cold-blooded detective with a shadowy past and an uncanny gift for hunting killers. In Mallory's Oracle, Carol O'Connell introduces one of crime fiction's most compelling and enigmatic protagonists, as Mallory investigates a series of murders targeting elderly women — crimes that lead her into the eerie world of psychics, con artists, and the city's underbelly. When the trail connects to the death of her beloved mentor and surrogate father, Lou Markowitz, the case becomes deeply, dangerously personal. O'Connell writes with a razor-sharp precision that cuts between psychological tension and atmospheric noir, presenting a protagonist who is as morally ambiguous as the criminals she pursues. Mallory's Oracle, first published in 1994, launched a celebrated series that would redefine the female detective in American crime fiction, earning O'Connell comparisons to the genre's finest voices. Beneath its gripping plot lies a probing examination of grief, justice, and what it means to be human — or to barely be so at all — leaving the reader compelled to follow Mallory wherever she leads next.