I was born and raised in New York City, so I do my own consumer product testing. When it comes to books, I prefer the Absorption Test: if I can ride the A train to lower Manhattan just before dawn without looking up more times than mi...

When two little girls disappear from a local school only a few days before Christmas, Rouge Kendall is jolted into action. The last time that two girls disappeared, it marked the beginning of the reign of a madman--the same madman who...

New York City policewoman Kathy Mallory investigates the murder of a prostitute named Sparrow, a woman who had taken her in many years ago only to betray her, as part of a crime that seems to mimic one that happened two decades earlie...

Detective Kathy Mallory chases a multiple murderer, but her real concern is the boy who is not dead-yet-in this thrilling new novel from the New York Times-bestselling author.A blind child and a Catholic nun disappear from a city side...

At the end of Killing Critics, the third book in Carol O'Connell's addictive series about Mallory, a strikingly original New York City cop, Mallory is traveling south on a train. 'She carried no stitch of formal identification that...

The seemingly accidental death of a magician during a spectacular televised stunt re-creating a legendary magic trick staged in Central Park triggers suspicion among insiders, including an aged magician in a private hospital and NYPD ...

The eight-year-old girl appeared in New York's Central Park one day: red-haired, blue-eyed, dirty-faced, smiling widely. She looked perfect, like a porcelain fairy—except for the blood on her shoulders. It fell from the sky, she tol...

Andrew Bliss, art critic pens the phrase "art terrorism" to describe the murder of artist Dean Starr. No one suspects he knows anything about a crime committed in a gallery 12 years earlier. Detective Kathy Mallory wants to ...

The reviews called it "A Play to Die For" after a woman was found dead in the front row. It didn't seem so funny the next night when another body was found-this time the playwright himself, his throat slashed. Detective Kath...