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Dead Famous: A Mallory Novel (Mallory Novels)
by Carol O'Connell, Alyssa Bresnahan
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Listen & Live Audio (2003-08-18)
ISBN: 1593160178
EAN: 9781593160173
Dewy Decimal #: 813.54
Audio Cassette
Edition: Unabridged
SKU: 0060269
Condition: New
Comments: Unabridged. Brand New from publisher, still in original shrinkwrap. Seven tapes, nine hours.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
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 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 anyone else wanted?
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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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