Winter House (A Mallory Novel)
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ISBN: 0425204650 / Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, September 2005
When a burglar is caught in the act and killed by an ice pick-wielding home owner, Mallory discovers that the home owner is actually a long-lost child who vanished sixty years earlier following the massacre of her entire family with an ice pick. Reprint.
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In this riveting thriller from New York Times bestselling author Carol O'Connell, New York City officer Kathleen Mallory purges a woman of her mysterious past—and the flesh-and-blood ghosts of a violent family legacy.At first, NYPD detective Kathleen Mallory thinks the case is simple: a burglar caught in the act and stabbed with an ice pick by a vulnerable homeowner. Except that the dead man was not a burglar, but a hired killer. And the homeowner is the most famous missing child in NYPD history, believed kidnapped more than sixty years ago after the massacre of her entire family...by an ice pick. As Mallory investigates, an astonishing story emerges, one of murderous greed and family horror, abandonment and loss, revenge and twisted love—and a terrifying secret that has yet to claim its final victim.
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