Blind Sight

Zusatztext 49552900 Informationen zum Autor This is Carol O’Connell’ s twelfth Mallory novel. The others are Mallory’s Oracle ! The Man Who Cast Two Shadows ! Killing Critics ! Stone Angel ! Shell Game ! Crime School ! Dead Famous ! Winter House ! Find Me ! The Chalk Girl ! and It Happens in the Dark . She is also the author of two stand-alones! Judas Child and Bone By Bone . O’Connell lives in New York City. Klappentext 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 the event still cannot believe it happened. It was all too real. Detective Kathy Mallory and the NYPD's Special Crimes Unit enter the investigation when the nun's body is found with three other corpses in varying stages of decomposition left on the lawn of Gracie Mansion! home to the mayor of New York City. Sister Michael was the last to die. The child! Jonah Quill! is still missing. Like Jonah! the police are blind. Unknown to them! he is with a stone killer! and though he has unexpected resources of his own! his would-be saviors have no suspect! no useful evidence! and no clue - except for Detective Mallory's suspicions of things not said and her penchant for getting to the truth beneath lies. Behind her back! the squad's name for her is Mallory the Machine! yet she has a dark understanding of what it is to be human. A child is waiting! time is running out! and atop her list of liars is the mayor himself…and a theory of the crimes in which no sane cop could believe. ***This excerpt is from an advance uncorrected copy proof*** Copyright © 2016 Carol O'Connell   Prologue   The unusual was common here, yet the heads of local people did turn to stare as she walked by. Others, the sightseers, only looked at landmarks for the way life used to be. They had little interest in life ongoing all around them, and so the woman robed in black moved past them. In plain sight. Unseen. Shops and cafés opened under a blue sky over St. Marks Place, and the first wave of tourists, a dozen or so, gathered round their guide as he spoke of a bygone era when this neighborhood was edgy, dangerous, drugged up—and fun, when the nights had reeked of marijuana for three city blocks. “No need to score reefer in those days,” he said. “You’d just breathe deep and get stoned. It was a party that went on for years.” “Decades,” said a portly, white-haired New Yorker, who had lived all his long life in an apartment above the family bodega. He turned his back on the tourists to work a squeaky crank on the wall. With a few swift turns, he lowered a striped awning to give his flower stall some shade. The stall was shallow, sized to fit a narrow sidewalk that was choked with sneakers and sandals as the walking tour walked on. Cars were forced to share the roadbed with two aging rock ’n’ rollers on foot. The bodega’s proprietor had a good eye for such people. Pilgrims, he called them. They stopped to snap pictures of their shrine, a brownstone that had appeared on an album cover dating back to music on vinyl and songs that were old when those two were young. Stepping out from the shade of his awning, the elderly man looked up at the sky. Cloudless. How he loved these early summer days when shoplifting children were still jailed in their classrooms. By a movement caught in the corner of one eye, he knew something dark was coming his way, and this, the first shock of the morning, brought out his widest smile. “Angie!” How many years had gone by? Too many. “So grown up!” Such a liar he was. Angela Quill had not aged a day. She was in her twenties now, bu...

Product details

• Authors: Carol Connell, O&apos, Carol O'Connell
• Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.09.2016, delayed
• EAN: 9780399184239
• ISBN: 978-0-399-18423-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: A Mallory Novel; Mallory Novels (Hardcover); A Mallory Novel
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense