A wild child turned New York City policewoman, Mallory was adopted off the streets as a small girl by police inspector Louis Markowitz, but 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 operates by her own inner compass of right and wrong, a sense of justice that drives her in unpredictable ways.Very little has ever been known about what acutally happened to her in New York before Markowitz found her, how she lived, the remarkable events that shaped her. Until now.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. The crime is identical to another one twenty years old. And Mallory knows this woman. She is a prostitute named Sparrow, who took Mallory in those many years ago, and then betrayed her. There is unfinished business between the two of them, and the quest to settle it will send Mallory spinning back to a time of secrets and desperation, and into the mind of a criminal whose work has only just begun. Read Less