Carol O’Connell-Crime School
A wild child turned New York City policewoman, Mallory was adopted off the streets as a small girl. Very little has ever really been known about what happened to her back then, how she lived-but the past is about to come alive. “Crime School” begins with the discovery of a woman found hanging in a burning apartment, tufts of her own blond hair stuck in her mouth and red candles scattered all around. Immediately, Mallory knows several things. The fire was set so the woman would be discovered. 

Killing Critics by Carol O’Connell 
Dean Starr a performance artist. Makes a name for himself. When he’s stabbed at a gallery during one of his more memorable pieces. Then audience liked it-until they realized how authentic Starr’s art as death routine is. Det Kathleen Mallory see,s a connection between Starr,s stabbing and another cold-case murder of a promising young dancer from twelve years ago. Her beloved stepfather was the investigator on that earlier unsolved case. But the deeper Mallory gets in to the past the more she realizes .Just how dark and dangerous it can be


The Man Who Cast Two Shadows by Carol O'Connell
The badly beaten and decomposed body of a tall blonde woman is found in a New York City park, and when a label inside her blazer states it belongs to Kathleen Mallory the entire NYPD seems to find out in minutes that Mallory is dead. It isn’t till her erstwhile partner Riker actually sees the body that he can – with great relief – correct the ID