Carol O'Connell (born May 26, 1947, in New YorkElizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, Great Women Mystery Writers, 2nd ed., Greenwood Press, 2007, p. 192, ) is an author of crime fiction, including a series of a dozen mysteries featuring a sociopathic but gifted detective, Kathy Mallory, of the New York Police Department (NYPD).
After O'Connell earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from Arizona State University, she embarked on a career as an artist, writing fiction "in the closet" as a hobby.
She grew more interested in writing fiction than in her art career. After initially having the manuscript for her first book, Mallory's Oracle, turned down by American publishers, she sold publication rights to British publisher, Hutchinson, with rights auctioned to European publishers. It next was acquired for the U.S. and Canadian markets by Putnam in an $800,000 two-book deal.
Bibliography NYPD Det. Kathy Mallory Mallory's Oracle – May 1994 The Man Who Cast Two Shadows – July 1, 1996; UK: The Man Who Lied to Women Killing Critics – UK: July 17, 1997 Stone Angel – July 1, 1998; UK: Flight of the Stone Angel – December 19, 2006 Shell Game – August 1, 2000 Crime School – September 9, 2002 Dead Famous – September 7, 2004; UK: The Jury Must Die – August 19, 2004 Winter House – September 6, 2005 Find Me – October 2, 2007; UK: Shark Music – May 1, 2008 The Chalk Girl – July 3, 2012 It Happens In The Dark – UK: August 20, 2013 Blind Sight – September 20, 2016
Standalone The Judas Child – June, 1998 Bone by Bone – November 3, 2009
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