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Carol O'Connell
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born
in The United States
January 01, 1947
gender
female
genre
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Mallory's Oracle (Kathleen Mallory, #1)
— published 1994 — 25 editions |
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Judas Child
— published 1998 — 30 editions |
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Stone Angel (Kathleen Mallory, #4)
— published 1997 — 24 editions |
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Bone By Bone
— published 2008 — 20 editions |
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The Chalk Girl (Kathleen Mallory, #10)
— published 2011 — 15 editions |
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Find Me (Kathleen Mallory, #9)
— published 2006 — 24 editions |
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The Man Who Cast Two Shadows (Kathleen Mallory, #2)
— published 1995 — 19 editions |
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Killing Critics (Kathleen Mallory, #3)
— published 1995 — 27 editions |
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Winter House (Kathleen Mallory, #8)
— published 2004 — 25 editions |
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Dead Famous (Kathleen Mallory, #7)
— published 2003 — 23 editions |
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“When strangers on a train or a plane ask what I do for a living, I say, "I kill people." This response makes for a short conversation. No eye contact and no sudden movement from my seat-mate. Only peace and quiet. Rare is the fellow passenger who asks why I do it.
I suppose I got tired hanging out in a book all day waiting for a story to begin. I write the kind of novels I want to read. And why the theme of solving murders? Violent death is larger than life and it's the great equalizer. By law, every victim is entitled to a paladin and a chase, else life would be cheapened.
And the real reason I do this? My brain is simply bent this way. There is nothing else I would rather do. This neatly chains into my theory of the writing life. If you scratch an artist, under the skin you will find a bum who cannot hold down a real job. Conversely, if you scratch a bum... but I have never done that.
The heart of my theory has puritan roots: if you love what you do, you cannot call it honest work.”
― Carol O'Connell
I suppose I got tired hanging out in a book all day waiting for a story to begin. I write the kind of novels I want to read. And why the theme of solving murders? Violent death is larger than life and it's the great equalizer. By law, every victim is entitled to a paladin and a chase, else life would be cheapened.
And the real reason I do this? My brain is simply bent this way. There is nothing else I would rather do. This neatly chains into my theory of the writing life. If you scratch an artist, under the skin you will find a bum who cannot hold down a real job. Conversely, if you scratch a bum... but I have never done that.
The heart of my theory has puritan roots: if you love what you do, you cannot call it honest work.”
― Carol O'Connell
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