A reclusive senior citizen kills an intruder but there's more to the story. In Carol O'Connell's new novel New York City officer Kathleen Mallory purges a woman of her mysterious past and the flesh-and-blood ghosts of a violent family legacy."

Jonathan Kellerman says Mallory's Oracle is "a joy." Nelson DeMille and other advance readers have called it "truly amazing, " "a classic" with "immense appeal." It is all of that, and more: a stunning debut novel about a web of unsolved murders in New York's Gramercy Park and the singular woman who makes them her obsession.
At its center is Kathleen Mallory, an extraordinary wild child turned New York City policewoman. Adopted off the streets as a little girl by a police inspector and his wife, she is still not altogether civilized now that she is a sergeant in the Special Crimes...

Mallory's Oracle, O'Connell's first bestseller featuring NYPD sergeant and computer hacker Kathleen Mallory, garnered stunning critical acclaim. This gritty thriller featuring "the strongest new detective of the decade" (Kirkus Reviews) follows Mallory as she pursues her own unpredictable vision of right and wrong in a murder case that strikes close to home in more ways than one.

The author of "Mallory's Oracle" brings back NYPD sergeant Kathleen Mallory, a wild-child-turned-policewoman, possessed of a ferocious intelligence and a unique inner compass of right and wrong. Seventeen years after her mother died there, Mallory returns to a small town in Louisiana, determined to find out who killed the innocent woman and why.