Type of bind: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Putnam Adult
Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 320
Printing Date: September 01, 2003
Publishing house: Putnam Adult
Release Date: September 11, 2003
Sale Popularity Level: 1673831
Studio: Putnam Adult
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Night had fallen, and the woman looked down at the crumpled letter, as if, in absolute darkness, she could read the postscript: Only a monster can play this game.
In Chicago, an FBI agent is killed in a psychiatrist's waiting room. In New York, the jurors from a controversial trial are murdered one by one. The only connections between the two: a flamboyant shock-jock, whose on-air comments seem to be taking him dangerously close to the edge, and a woman, her body misshapen since childhood, whose job it is to clean up crime scenes-and maybe to create them as well. This is a federal case, and Mallory's been told that the FBI wants no part of her. But she knows something nobody else does-and, besides, when has she ever cared what anybody else wanted?
Amazon.com Review:
To summarize the plot of Dead Famous would be to spoil it, since O'Connell keeps revealing it layer by layer as you go along--a daring technique, and a rewarding one if you're a patient reader. Suffice it to say that the story involves a seemingly unstoppable serial killer; a beautiful hunchback with tragedy in her past; a radio shock-jock who helps the killer find his victims; an extremely mean house cat; a gloomy veteran cop drinking himself into oblivion; and, at the center of it all, NYPD detective Kathy Mallory, who returns here for her seventh outing. Mallory (don't call her Kathy) is one of the strangest, most intriguing series heroines in crime fiction: a former street waif who's brilliant and gorgeous, but also sociopathic, manipulative, and obsessive-compulsive.
No formulaic cop thriller, Dead Famous is instead a crime tale that focuses on its quirky, often outre characters. There isn't a lot of conventional suspense. Yet near the end, the story gathers tremendous narrative momentum and rises to a real tragic power. O'Connell's quirky writing style and approach aren't for everyone, but her fans--old and new--will find much to appreciate here. --Nicholas H. Allison
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To me Kathy Mallory series are hit or miss and this is the latter one.The book did not keep me going and I had hard time finish reading it.
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Carol O'connell writes another terrific Mallory story. She has to follow the clues before the last juror is dead.
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This book jumps around so much at the beginning that I finally had to abandon it. Perhaps she is an acquired taste, but my very first thought (having never read anything of hers before) was that she was not a good writer. The scenes in the very first three chapters are totally disjointed. I'm sure she was going somewhere, but I did not have the patience to find out.
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I am a huge O'Connell fan and after being disappointed with "Crime School" I wanted to say I'm delighted that she is more than back in stride with "Dead Famous." I was worried that the huge popularity of Mallory would force O'Connell into a corner...not being allowed the freedom to weave her wonderful stories in the way she knows best (don't forget the gripping non-Mallory "Judas Child" ). But by switching the focus to Riker in this novel, she has let her readers have another white-knuckle ride through a fabulous plot with a bit of Mallory and Charles blended in. She creates the most complex, fascinating characters. You learn so much more about Riker and truly are drawn to mysterious Johanna. It is a very intense, rich and emotional story.
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she writes better than this. this book dragged for more pages than it should have.Carol kulowski
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