Crime School
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For readers of Stieg Larsson: the sixth Mallory novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Chalk Girl – in trade paperback for the first time.
Police 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. It happened twenty-one years ago, when Mallory was a child. Now – whether it’s the work of a copy-cat killer or a serial murderer – it has happened again.
Kathleen Mallory’s past has finally caught up with her.
Detective Kathy Mallory. New York’s darkest. You only underestimate her once.
A street kid turned cop.
Fifteen years have passed since a junkie whore and a police informer, known simply as Sparrow, cared for a feral child when she was lost and alone.
Why did she let the hangman in?
Now, on a hot August afternoon, in an East Side apartment, a woman is found hanged. Carefully placed red candles and an enormous quantity of dead flies suggest a bizarre ritual. NYPD detective Kathy Mallory does not recognise her immediately. But soon finds that she is staring her bitter past in the face, as she pursues a case which also has its origin in an unsolved murder committed years ago.
