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Zusatztext As in previous novels! Mallory's quirky personality shows "just a hint of crazy!" and sometimes! to unnerve people! she drops "every pretense of being human." She's an entertaining! slightly over-the-top protagonist with brains and attitude. Colorful and appealing (or appalling) characters make this one a winner for crime-fic fans Informationen zum Autor Carol O'Connell is the New York Times bestselling creator of Kathy Mallory! and the author of thirteen books! eleven featuring her acclaimed detective! most recently IT HAPPENS IN THE DARK! as well as the stand-alone thrillers JUDAS CHILD and BONE BY BONE. She lives in New York City. Klappentext YOU HAVEN'T READ CRIME UNTIL YOU'VE READ O'CONNELL. YOU HAVEN'T READ CRIME UNTIL YOU'VE READ O'CONNELL. Zusammenfassung Mallory Book 12: Blind Sight is the twelfth NYPD detective Kathy Mallory novel from New York Times bestseller Carol O'Connell! master of knife-edge suspense and intricate plotting. Fans of Karin Slaughter and Lisbeth Salander! heroine of Stieg Larsson's Millennium series! will be thrilled by New York's darkest cop. 'Carol O'Connell is a consummate storyteller - a unique talent who deserves to be a household name' - Val McDermid A very egalitarian killer. The nun is dead! her body lies on the mayor's lawn. And it isn't alone. There are four of them altogether. They've been killed at different times! in different places! and dumped there. There should be five - but the boy is missing. One second he was there... Jonah Quill! blind since birth! sits in a car driven by a killer and wonders where they are going. Though he is blind! Jonah sees more than most people do. It is his secret! and he is counting on that to save his life. Then gone. Detective Kathy Mallory is counting on herself to save his life. It takes her a while to realise that the missing-person case she is pursuing is so intimately connected to the massacre on the mayor's lawn. But there's something about the boy she is searching for that reminds her of herself! all those years ago. She will find him - she just hopes it will be in time. ...
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Carol O'Connell's latest novel featuring Special Crimes Unit Detective Kathy Mallory has an almost Dickensian feel. In her own way, O'Connell is as quirky and elusive as Mallory. [F]or those readers looking to escape the usual police procedurals, she's the ticket Chicago Tribune
