Mallory’s Oracle - Carol O’Connell Audiobook

Written by Carol O’Connell
Read by Madelyn Buzzard
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Kathleen Mallory Series, book 1
9 hours, 46 minutes
64kbps, unabridged, stereo
NLS for the Blind, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.: 1995/2012

Critics called this 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 section. With her ferocious intelligence and green gunslinger eyes, Mallory (never Kathleen, never Kathy) operates by her own inner compass of right and wrong, a sense of justice that drives her in unpredictable ways. She is a thing apart.

And today, she is a thing possessed. Although more at home in the company of computers than in the company of men, Mallory is propelled onto the street when the body of her adoptive father, Louis Markowitz, is found stabbed in a tenement next to the body of a wealthy Gramercy Park woman. The murders are clearly linked to two other Gramercy Park homicides Markowitz had been investigating, and now his cases become Mallory’s, his death her cause. Prowling the streets, sifting through his clues, drawing on his circle of friends and colleagues, she plunges into a netherworld of light and shadow, where people are not what they seem and truth shifts without warning. And a murderer waits who is every bit as wild and unpredictable as she….

Filled with deep, seductive atmosphere and razor-sharp prose, Mallory’s Oracle is gripping, resonant suspense of tantalizing complexity—a genuinely unforgettable novel.

Kathy Mallory and Eve Dallas were “born” in the same year (1995), both become police detectives; one is a sociopath and the other reasonable well balance. I enjoy both series.

My thanks to the generous person who got this book for me so we can all finally have an unabridged copy of the first Mallory novel.