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Stone angel
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- ISBN: 9780515122985 (paperback)
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388 pages ; 18 cm - Edition: Jove mass-market edition.
- Publisher: New York : Jove Books, 1998.
- Copyright: ©1997.
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| Subject: | Policewomen -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction |
| Genre: | Mystery fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Bibliothèque Ste-Anne Library | FIC OCO (Text) | 31511010013214 | English Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Monthly Selections - #1 June 1997
/*Starred Review*/ Readers of O'Connell's earlier Kathleen Mallory novels have come to expect twisted psychology and sociopathic behavior as a matter of course, and certainly her stunning new thriller offers plenty of those staples. This time, though, there's even a touch of voodoo added to the lethal brew. No one--not even her best friend, Charles Butler--knows anything about Mallory's life before she showed up at age 10 in New York, already an accomplished thief and pickpocket. Now Mallory has vanished, only to turn up months later in the backwater Louisiana town where her childhood disappeared. Charles, who follows her, is unsurprised to find her in the town jail, a prisoner of the sheriff who knew her as little Kathy Shelley, whose mother was stoned to death years earlier. The only reminder of the town's most ignominious moment is the stone angel in the town cemetery, a monument to Cass Shelley's horrible death. Mallory has been planning her revenge for years, and now that the moment is here, a mere jail cell won't stop her. The fact that her method of revenge is both brilliantly calculated and utterly terrifying will come as no surprise to those familiar with the cold, cold soul of the always mesmerizing Kathleen Mallory. Is O'Connell's latest a dark voodoo tale? A mystical fairy fable? A sad, gentle love story? A suspense-filled tale of hatred and revenge? Or a horrifying exposeof fundamentalist cults and small-town secrets? The gifted O'Connell--who's now at the height of her considerable literary powers--combines all of the above in a brilliant, not-to-be-missed performance. Wow! ((Reviewed June 1 & 15, 1997)) Copyright 2000 Booklist Reviews - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 1997 March
O'Connell has built an impressive following thanks to such well-received novels as Killing Critics (Putnam, 1996). Here, series star Kathleen Mallory returns to the scene of her mother's murder 17 years earlier. Copyright 1998 Library Journal Reviews - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 1997 June #2
Here is a novel that grabs hold early and draws you all the way into a world of secrets, mysteries, murder, revenge and innocence lost. This is the world of computer whiz and New York cop Kathleen Mallory, introduced in Mallory's World and acclaimed last in Killing Critics. O'Connell's prose lifts ordinary passages into poetry and her deft, bold characterizations render even such minor characters memorable long after the last page is turned: mute sculptor Henry Roth; autistic savant Ira Wooley; the young deputy Lilith Beaudare. Mallory leaves the Big Apple to return to her enigmatic Southern beginnings. Seventeen years earlier, in the hamlet of Dayborn, La., the murder of a young woman, Cass Shelley, set off events that transformed her six-year-old daughter, Kathy, into the thief who, four years later, would be rescued from the New York streets by the cop who became her adoptive father. Returning to Dayborn like an avenging angel, Mallory is soon arrested for the murder of a local evangelist near her old house. As told from the point of view of her friend and dogged admirer Charles Baxter, this tale, tweaked one way, is a fine example of horror writing; tweaked another, its elements of gothic romance shine. But from any angle, O'Connell's latest is a stunningly original mystery sure to draw raves from Mallory fans and send droves of new readers scurrying to the series' earlier titles. (July) Copyright 1998 Publishers Weekly Reviews - School Library Journal Reviews : SLJ Reviews 1998 January
YA?Much darker than the previous three novels starring Mallory, Stone Angel examines the shadows that haunt this unique detective, bringing to light the horrors that drive her. Here she is seeking retribution with single-minded obsession for her mother's grisly death by stoning. The small Louisiana town she fled as a child and to which she now returns is polluted with enough moral corruption to make Faulkner proud. Fans of the earlier books will be gratified to know that old friends have followed Mallory to Louisiana. Charles has spent months tracking her, dogging her steps with a fiercely loyal determination. Detective Riker has found her as well, and the relationship among these three continues to develop as the men try to keep her from destroying herself while seeking revenge. O'Connell is at her best when she is characterizing the almost animalistic Mallory, and she has outdone herself here, deftly weaving together threads of character and subplots from all four novels to reveal Mallory's true motives. While readers should not deprive themselves of Mallory's Oracle, The Man Who Cast Two Shadows, and Killing Critics, Stone Angel can stand alone and will leave readers spellbound. It may be one of the most chillingly horrible, darkly brooding, masterful mysteries of recent times.?Robin Deffendall, Prince William Public Library System, VA
