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Winter House (Kathleen Mallory Novels)
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Binding: Hardcover
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Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: October 21, 2004
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Editorial Review:
Carol O'Connell's last novel, Dead Famous, made multiple best-of-year lists and won critical acclaim nationwide. "O'Connell brings a hard edge of greatness to the crime thriller," wrote the San Jose Mercury News. "A tough and brilliant action-, wit-, and surprise-packed novel." But never has Mallory faced as many surprises as in the case before her now. It seems cut-and-dried at first: a burglar has been caught in the act and killed by an ice pick-wielding home owner. Except that the home owner turns out to be the most famous lost child in NYPD history, missing for almost sixty years, thought to have been kidnapped following the massacre of her family: five siblings, father, stepmother, nanny, and housekeeper -nearly the entire household wiped out . . . with an ice pick. Filled with the intricate plotting and extraordinary characterization that are O'Connell's hallmarks, Winter House is her most powerful-and most astonishing-novel yet.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Unsatisfying.
I found this novel unsatisfying; it simply did not engage me.
This is my 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 ... Read More
Rating:  - Winter House is VERY good and slightly disturbing...
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...
Rating: - Loved it
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.
Rating: - Strange book
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 next two days thinking about things like: And why did she include this? ... Read More
Rating:  - Psychotic fantasy
This is the first "Mallory" novel I've read, so I come to it with a fresh perspective. I found the novel disappointing after the opening scene. This female detective rages around trampling all vestiges of proper police procedure, and all the male cops (notoriously hard to intimidate in real life) are intimidated by her and constantly yield to/coddle her behavior. I found it completely unbelievable. Mallory wouldn't last a day in a real police department, even if her daddy was a cop. Big-city police ... Read More
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