Carol O'Connell (born May 26, 1947, in New York
[Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, ''Great Women Mystery Writers'', 2nd ed., Greenwood Press, 2007, p. 192, ]) is an author of crime fiction, including a series of a dozen mysteries featuring a sociopathic but gifted detective,
Kathy Mallory.
O'Connell earned a
Bachelor of Fine Arts
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Background ...
in painting from
Arizona State University
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and embarked on a career as an artist, writing fiction "in the closet" as a hobby.
[ She grew more interested in writing fiction than in her art career and, after initially having the manuscript for her first book, '' Mallory's Oracle'', turned down by American publishers, she sold publication rights to a British publisher, Hutchinson, with rights auctioned to European publishers. It then was acquired for the U.S. and Canadian markets by Putnam in an $800,000 two-book deal.]
Bibliography
NYPD Det. Kathy Mallory
# '' Mallory's Oracle'' – May 1994
# '' The Man Who Cast Two Shadows'' – July 1, 1996; UK: ''The Man Who Lied to Women''
# '' Killing Critics'' – UK: July 17, 1997
# ''Stone Angel'' – July 1, 1998; UK: ''Flight of the Stone Angel'' – December 19, 2006
# ''Shell Game'' – August 1, 2000
# ''Crime School'' – September 9, 2002
# ''Dead Famous'' – September 7, 2004; UK: ''The Jury Must Die'' – August 19, 2004
# ''Winter House'' – September 6, 2005
# ''Find Me'' – October 2, 2007; UK: ''Shark Music'' – May 1, 2008
# ''The Chalk Girl'' – July 3, 2012
# ''It Happens In The Dark'' – UK: August 20, 2013
# ''Blind Sight'' – September 20, 2016
Standalone
* ''The Judas Child'' – June, 1998
* ''Bone by Bone'' – November 3, 2009
References
1947 births
Living people
American women writers
Arizona State University alumni
Women mystery writers
21st-century American women
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