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Page Count: 320
Printing Date: October 21, 2004
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When a serial lady-killer is found with shears sticking out of his chest and an ice pick in his hand, Kathy Mallory and her NYPD Special Crimes partner Detective Sgt. Riker are called in to investigate. One of the occupants of Winter House, the scene of the crime, is 70-year-old Nedda Winter, who immediately confesses to the killing, claiming it was self-defence. Murder solved, case closed. It's even poetic justice. But Winter House is the site of a massacre that took place 50 years previously and doesn't give up its dead so easily. Mallory and Riker will have to reopen the original investigation in order to try and stop the murderer from finishing what they started.
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This book was in excellent condition. It arrived very quickly. As usual, Carol O' Conner delivered a wonderful story. Great read.
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I found this novel unsatisfying; it simply did not engage me.
This is my very first Kathleen Mallory novel, and she an ineffectual protagonist. Kathleen seemed emotionally (and maybe mentally) disturbed with no clear explanation. For instance, she uses her lockpicks to enter homes of suspects, friends, everyone, on any occation. When Kathleen is upset at the death of Nedda Winters, a suspect in a series of murders, Kathleen pounds the wall with her fist until her hand is broken and bleeding and there is a hole in the wall.
I did come across an interesting comment about Catholic confession. Biddy says, "Imagine, a little room where you can take your soul to be cleaned."
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AS with all the Mallory stories, this keeps you interested and intrigued. It has a few surprises for the reader and Mallory lover. She never ceases to surprise and grow...
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Have read many of Carol O'Connell books and enjoyed them all. I really like the characters and how they manage to get along with Mallory.
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I read this book and read it again months later. I still can't figure out how the author wants us, the readers, to take this literary endevour. It is to some extent totally illogical and it appears that the author smoked some serious weeds while writing it and totally forgot how to make all the tangled webs she wove come together. Still it has a haunting excitement about it and therefore an acceptable read. Even if you spend the subsequent two days thinking about things like: And why did she include this? or why that? Which turn out to have no connection to what is happening in the story when looked at in hindsight.
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