Dead Famous
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Mallory Book 7: the seventh NYPD detective Kathy Mallory novel from New York Times bestseller Carol O’Connell, master of knife-edge suspense and intricate plotting.
Meet Detective Kathy Mallory. New York’s darkest. You only underestimate her once.
The jury must die…
It’s the highest profile acquittal in recent history – and when a serial killer starts taking justice into his own hands, interest hits fever pitch.
NYPD detective Kathy Mallory finds herself in a race against time to save the remaining three members of the jury before the Reaper gets to them first.
And before the radio shock-jock Ian Zachary plays the next round in his deadly ratings-grabbing game of ‘hunt the juror’.
Only a monster can play this game
Carol O’Connell succeeds triumphantly, once again, in creating an intriguing crime scenario and also an engaging group of characters, all damaged in their own different ways, who pursue their destinies in a city that is both darkly dangerous and resilient to disaster. After bringing in a unanimous and very dubious acquittal in a murder case, only three of the original jurors remain alive. And someone, known only as the ‘Reaper’ because of the signature of a bloody scythe left at the crime scenes, is clearly determined to make a clean sweep of the terrified survivors.
Detective Sgt. Riker, although on paid sick leave after a teenage psychopath pumped four bullets into his chest, has a keen but unofficial interest in the case. And his NYPD Special Crimes partner, Kathy Mallory, orphan, sociopath and computer genius, is resolute that there will be no more personal defections in her life, and determined to discover the identity of the killer before he, or she makes a complete mockery of justice.
