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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1994
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Kathleen Mallory

1 - Mallory's Oracle (Aug-1994)
2 - The Man Who Cast Two Shadows (Jun-1995)
3 - Killing Critics (May-1996)
4 - Stone Angel (Jun-1997)
5 - Shell Game (Jul-1999)
6 - Crime School (Sep-2002)
7 - Dead Famous (Sep-2003)
8 - Winter House (Oct-2004)
9 - Find Me (Jan-2007)
10 - The Chalk Girl (Jan-2012)
11 - It Happens in the Dark (Aug-2013)
12 - Blind Sight (Sep-2016)

Book List in Order: 17 titles



  • Jonathan Kellerman says Mallory's Oracle is "a joy." Nelson DeMille and other advance readers have called it "truly amazing, " "a classic" with "immense appeal." It is all of that, and more: a stunning debut novel about a web of unsolved murders in N...



  • Formerly a child of the streets, now a brilliant computer hacker and NYPD sergeant, Kathleen Mallory's powerful intelligence is matched only by the ferocity with which she pursues her own unpredictable vision of right and wrong. And she will need eve...



  • "DARKLY STYLISH ... Carol O'Connell brings back her troubled, beautiful and sophisticated NYPD sergeant, Kathleen Mallory, to solve a series of shockingly gruesome murders that have rocked the art world ... The bizarre denizens of the art world and t...



  • "NYPD Detective Sgt. Kathleen Mallory return[s] to her tiny Louisiana hometown after almost twenty years to solve the case that has obsessed her since childhood: the murder of her own mother... [O'Connell] conjures up a world of almost Faulknerian ri...



  • In a quiet New York suburb, three days before Christmas, two little girls have disappeared. It's a calculated and chilling reminder of a crime that happened once before, fifteen years ago to the day, when Detective Rouge Kendall's twin sister fell in...



  • On live television, a man dies during the re-creation of a legendary magic trick in Central Park. Millions of New Yorkers believe it was an accident-but two people know it was not. One is an aged magician in a private hospital in the northern corner ...



  • Detective Kathleen Mallory recognized the dead call girl. It was someone from her past, a woman who protected her on the streets of New York--and who betrayed her. Mallory also recognized the crime scene: victim hanging, hair in mouth, fire burning. ...



  • An FBI agent is killed in a psychiatrist's office...Jurors on a controversial trial are murdered one by one...A norotious shock-jock is flirting with his listeners' worst impulses...An unnerving beauty cleans up crime scenes, erasing the sins of man....



  • It seems cut and dried at first: Apparently a burglar has been caught in the act and killed by a scissors-wielding homeowner. Except that the dead man was a hired killer, not a burglar. And the homeowner is the most famous missing child in NYPD histo...






  • 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 be...




  • In the northern California town of Coventry, two teenage brothers go into the woods one day, but only one comes back. No one knows what happened to the younger brother, Josh, until twenty years later, when the older brother, Oren, now an ex-investiga...



  • The eight-year-old girl appeared in New York's Central Park one day: red-haired, blue-eyed, dirty-faced, smiling widely. She looked perfect. like a porcelain fairy -- except for the blood on her shoulders. It fell from the sky, she told the police. I...



  • The astonishing new Mallory novel from the New York Times-bestselling author and one of the most acclaimed crime writers in America. The reviews called it "A Play to Die For" after the woman was found dead in the front row. It didn't seem so fun...



  • The extraordinary new Mallory novel from one of the most acclaimed crime writers in America. A blind child and a Catholic nun disappear from a city sidewalk in plain sight of onlookers. There, then gone -- vanished in seconds. Those who witnessed ...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Carol O'Connell has published 17 books.

Carol O'Connell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Flight of the Stone Angel, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Carol O'Connell, Mallory's Oracle, was published in August 1994.

Yes. Carol O'Connell has 1 series.