Winter House
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Carol O’Connell’s last novel, Dead Famous, made multiple best-of-year lists and won critical acclaim nationwide. “O’Connell brings a hard edge of greatness to the crime thriller,” wrote the San Jose Mercury News. “A tough and brilliant action-, wit-, and surprise-packed novel.”
Detective Kathy Mallory. New York’s darkest. You only underestimate her once.
A secret that has yet to claim its final victim
When a known serial killer is found at Winter House, with shears sticking out of his chest and an ice pick in his hand, NYPD detective Kathy Mallory is called in to investigate. At the scene of the crime seventy-year-old Nedda Winter immediately confesses to the killing, claiming it was self-defence. Case closed.
However, Nedda is in fact the most famous lost child in NYPD history, missing for almost sixty years, thought to be kidnapped following the massacre of her family… with an ice pick.
And a remarkable story begins to emerge, of murderous greed and family horror, abandonment and loss, revenge and twisted love.
But never has Mallory faced as many surprises as in the case before her now. It seems cut-and-dried at first: a burglar has been caught in the act and killed by an ice pick-wielding home owner. Except that the home owner turns out to be the most famous lost child in NYPD history, missing for almost sixty years, thought to have been kidnapped following the massacre of her family: five siblings, father, stepmother, nanny, and housekeeper -nearly the entire household wiped out . . . with an ice pick.
Filled with the intricate plotting and extraordinary characterization that are O’Connell’s hallmarks, Winter House is her most powerful-and most astonishing-novel yet.
