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Find Me (Kathleen Mallory #9)
From one of the most acclaimed crime writers in America comes her most astonishing novel: a story of love, loss, death-and discovery.
Over the course of eight novels, Carol O'Connell and her protagonist, New York detective Kathy Mallory, have carved out a unique place for themselves. But all that has been prelude to the remarkable story told in Find Me.
A mutilated body...more
Over the course of eight novels, Carol O'Connell and her protagonist, New York detective Kathy Mallory, have carved out a unique place for themselves. But all that has been prelude to the remarkable story told in Find Me.
A mutilated body...more
Hardcover, 352 pages
Published
December 28th 2006
by Putnam Adult
(first published 2006)
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i think i'm being generous. i think this book could easily get two stars and it would be okay. yet i loved it for long stretches, and got turned off only towards the end. still, endings count. in the mystery genre, a book that weaves a very complex web but lets you down at the end is a seriously flawed book.
this started losing me when the intricacies of the plot became so intricate that i started losing the ability to suspend disbelief. also, o'connell plays with red herrings and misleading/conf...more
this started losing me when the intricacies of the plot became so intricate that i started losing the ability to suspend disbelief. also, o'connell plays with red herrings and misleading/conf...more
Sarebbe inutile riavviare la vecchia querelle riguardo al fatto se il genere “giallo” possa essere o no annoverato tra la vera letteratura o debba essere relegato nella “paralettaratura” (assieme alla fantascienza, al fantasy, al noir, ai thriller e via discorrendo). La mia opinione è, da sempre, che dipende da chi scrive. Esiste anche molta, normalissima letteratura, ossia non appartenente ai succitati generi, che l’unico posto in cui ti viene in mente di collocare è la pattumiera.
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I don't know which Mallory book this is and I have read several of them. This one is a good, solid read with a rather ambiguous ending
Kathy Mallory is truly a fascinating character and following her evolution over several novels is quite interesting. One of these days she may graduate to real humanity.
The old Mother Road - Route 66 - is as much a character as it is the setting of this book. O'Connell pays nostalgic tribute to the past in following the old road, where it still exists. This was tr...more
Kathy Mallory is truly a fascinating character and following her evolution over several novels is quite interesting. One of these days she may graduate to real humanity.
The old Mother Road - Route 66 - is as much a character as it is the setting of this book. O'Connell pays nostalgic tribute to the past in following the old road, where it still exists. This was tr...more
I love this entire series but this one is a can't put down until you are finished book. I forced myself since I bought this one and have a bunch of library books to read and I am trying to maintain a home life. The main character, Mallory, is not your usual feminine detective. She is a ball breaking b__ch. The flaw in this book is the author allows her to do things Mallory would never do. The plot is her following her father's journey down Route 66.
Feb 05, 2009
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Critics applauded Carol O'Connell's latest installment in the Kathy Mallory series, which contains a riveting plot and compelling characters__especially the mysterious, unpredictable Mallory. O'Connell is a skillful writer who deserves a wider readership, and Find Me may bring her just that. While a few reviewers found some of the details of Mallory's past redundant (since they had been covered in previous books), others felt that the background information made Find Me suitable for readers meet
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This is my 1st read for Carol O'Connell & won't be the last! If you're into mystery, crimes, thriller & serial killers then this is one of your good writers out there!
The story revolves about a cop called Kathy Mallory who's on a road trip to discover her past & have a peace of mind. While she's driving on route 66, she walks through a crime scene & gets involved! A serial killer is out there hunting the parents of girls he had killed 30 years ago. He wants to feed on the pain of...more
The story revolves about a cop called Kathy Mallory who's on a road trip to discover her past & have a peace of mind. While she's driving on route 66, she walks through a crime scene & gets involved! A serial killer is out there hunting the parents of girls he had killed 30 years ago. He wants to feed on the pain of...more
Read this through one night, and remembered, a long time ago my Dad said you can get by with hardly any sleep as long as what kept you awake was a good time. I only regretted the lack of sleep a little. Mallory elevates her whackness (including chipped nail polish, begob), Butler's got his groove back, and Riker is just as entertaining and frumpy, with better skills displayed. Didn't care for the FBI, which I'm sure O'Connell is perfectly happy with. Wonder what the history is there? The parents...more
This is an enjoyable, engrossing book which has Mallory, Charles & Riker trying to solve a series of murders which occur along the old Route 66. As always, the story is multi-layered and complex, with lots of twists and turns that keep the reader guessing until the end. This story is the eighth in the Mallory series.[return][return]The Mallory series by Carol O'Connell is about a beautiful, damaged, maverick, and almost sociopathic detective named Kathleen Mallory (who insists on being calle...more
"I Loved loved loved this book. O'Donnell does not let you down book after book after book. This outing gives a lot more background to the character of Mallory and is so heartbreaking in the end, that you just want to reach out and hug her although this would end up with a gun in your face. Great murder - well a whole slew of them - to solve and keep you guessing again page after page. In fact, I think the body count in this book is higher than the others. Although, the majority of the murders r...more
I liked this one. I like her writing style; I like her
characters; I love the little twists she puts in just when you think
you've got it figured out or that everything is over and done with and
you know the answers. I like that the primary character in this
series, Mallory, is like an old fashioned white hatted sheriff that
defends the weak and wrecks revenge on the bad guys. And she doesn't
put up with BS from government A-holes. And that other people love her
despite her "sociopathic" (I don't agre...more
characters; I love the little twists she puts in just when you think
you've got it figured out or that everything is over and done with and
you know the answers. I like that the primary character in this
series, Mallory, is like an old fashioned white hatted sheriff that
defends the weak and wrecks revenge on the bad guys. And she doesn't
put up with BS from government A-holes. And that other people love her
despite her "sociopathic" (I don't agre...more
I truly appreciate receiving this complimentary copy from Goodreads First Reads of Find Me by Carol O'Connell. This was the first book I've read in this series. Because I had not read books earlier in the series, I found myself somewhat confused at times as I tried to keep up with the many different characters. I often had to reread to better follow the story. What twists and turns the reader takes as one joins Mallory on her journey along old Route 66, which is the route that her father took ma...more
I am really bored with the trope in mystery/thriller of the damaged savant detective. This was the first Kathy Mallory I've read, and it'll be the last. Mallory is that damaged savant, and beautiful (she's described as possessing a "perfect" face, whatever that means), and she is so out of control that no respectable police force would hire her, promote her to detective, or put up with her. But she's nuthin to the FBI agent who is the true villain of the piece. Oh, puleez.
The authorial manipulat...more
The authorial manipulat...more
My second foray into the world of detective Kathy Mallory. I'm still not in love with this remote, cold, but brilliant character - though she had a rough childhood, there's not much to like about her as an adult. However, she does solve crimes....this one a series of murders of children over many years and the bodies are now being found all along Route 66.
In addition to working the case, she's also on a personal journey...retracing her unknown father's steps as he drove and wrote about Route 66...more
In addition to working the case, she's also on a personal journey...retracing her unknown father's steps as he drove and wrote about Route 66...more
New York detective Kathy Mallory takes off and seems to be looking for something. Her partner and friend thinks she is losing it so follows. She is traveling using old letters as her guide to sights and places. At the beginning a mutilated body is found lying on the ground in Chicago, a dead hand pointing down Adams Street, also known as Route 66, a road of many names. And now of many deaths. Parents of missing children, some recently disappeared, some gone a decade or more-all brought together...more
This is the first book I've read by Carol O'Connell, and I'll read more. It wasn't really... I dunno, the mystery and even the crime is not so important. Instead, it has this intense dreamlike quality where things just happen in terrible ways. In one part, a woman strikes out alone to find a child, and is rescued from a serial killer. Then she does it again, and again, and again... Then there's the wolf, brought along as a weapon of revenge. An aging punchdrunk boxer around for some reason. All...more
I read all ten Kathleen Mallory books and found this book a very satisfying conclusion--if this is indeed a conclusion to the series. Mallory is the adopted daughter of a beloved NY police detective , Louis Markowitz, who dies in the first book. He found her when she was eleven years old and surviving on the street as a thief. She becomes a detective, too, intelligent and intense, with exceptional computer skills and exceptionally poor social skills. She can seem feral and secretive. One of her...more
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It kept me interested for the most part, but I did find tiresome the infallible ways of detective Kathy Mallory: Every one of her hunches is correct, she is feared by men and women alike, she is always more techno-savvy than everybody around her (reminiscent of the same irritation I felt with Lisbeth Salander, the can-do-no-wrong character in the Stieg Larsson novels), etc. Other stereotypical characters included the incompetent egomaniac special agent Dale Berman, who, like Frederick Chilton in...more
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I won this book as a first reads giveaway.
I didnt enjoy this book as much as i enjoy most mysteries. Carol O'Connell is a good writer but i had trouble caring about the story. The Story revolved so much around the cops that it was hard to care about who was killing all the children. Most mysteries i want to know who do it but as kept reading this book i realized it didnt matter. The did make a connection to any of the family members of the children who had been murdered. I Think it may have hel...more
I didnt enjoy this book as much as i enjoy most mysteries. Carol O'Connell is a good writer but i had trouble caring about the story. The Story revolved so much around the cops that it was hard to care about who was killing all the children. Most mysteries i want to know who do it but as kept reading this book i realized it didnt matter. The did make a connection to any of the family members of the children who had been murdered. I Think it may have hel...more
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I went looking for a new Mallory story from Carol O'Connell after reading Stieg Larson's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo because it seemed to me that he'd created a character in homage to O'Connell's Mallory. I read the first few Mallory novels -- Mallory's Oracle to Stone Angel -- published in the US between 1995 and 1998 but stopped the series because I was burned out on crime fiction. Still, Kathleen Mallory was an unusual and unforgettable character -- abused as a child and a gifted computer...more
O’ Connell has set herself apart as one of the finest psychological crime writers ever.
‘Love is the death of me.’
Detective Riker reads the suicide note found next to Savannah’s corpse. The gunshot victim is lying in his partner, Detective Kathy Mallory’s apartment.
Is it a suicide or a homicide? Mallory has disappeared.
If you aren’t acquainted with Kathy Mallory, do yourself a favour and change that. There has never been a character like her in crime fiction.
Mallory is the most beautiful, most he...more
‘Love is the death of me.’
Detective Riker reads the suicide note found next to Savannah’s corpse. The gunshot victim is lying in his partner, Detective Kathy Mallory’s apartment.
Is it a suicide or a homicide? Mallory has disappeared.
If you aren’t acquainted with Kathy Mallory, do yourself a favour and change that. There has never been a character like her in crime fiction.
Mallory is the most beautiful, most he...more
Really, this last in the Mallery series gets 4 1/2 stars. It's an excellently woven story that keeps you engaged and on your toes the entire time. O'Connell is an expert at creating minor characters that are so interesting, rich, and flawed that you become keenly aware of your own humanity when you want to champion them or knee them in the groin. Like Stone Angel, this book is a foray into Kathy Mallory's past. Here we are given, piece by piece, more information on how Kathy Mallory came into be...more
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I got this book as a gift since it is known among my friends that I love Grafton's Kinsey Millhone and Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta. So, I thought I'd love Kathy Mallory. Not!
I am aware that there is a series of Mallory's "adventures". I am aware that one needs to read a couple of other books of the series before rendering a verdict. However, this book alone was enough for me to decide that I won't be reading another book by Carol O'Connell.
In this series, Mall...more
I got this book as a gift since it is known among my friends that I love Grafton's Kinsey Millhone and Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta. So, I thought I'd love Kathy Mallory. Not!
I am aware that there is a series of Mallory's "adventures". I am aware that one needs to read a couple of other books of the series before rendering a verdict. However, this book alone was enough for me to decide that I won't be reading another book by Carol O'Connell.
In this series, Mall...more
An abrupt beginning, although this might be because I haven't read the previous books. Either a suicide or a murder in NY cop Mallory's apartment; she's left, so her partner can only guess, and follow. On the way she drives through the crime scene of another murder: a body with a hand missing, replaced by the bones of a child's hand pointing onward-- And she and the book suddenly plunge headlong into an hunt for a serial killer preying along Route 66.
Mallory's a hard woman, we know because every...more
Mallory's a hard woman, we know because every...more
FIND ME (Suspense-US-Cont) – Ex
O’Connell, Carol – 10th book
Putnam, 2006- US Hardcover – ISBN 0399153950
*** There is a dead woman in her apartment and NY detective Kathy Mallory has taken off in a VW Beetle with a Porche 911 engine to travel old Route 66. At the beginning of the highway, the intersection of Adams and Marshall in Chicago, lies a body with it’s hand pointing down the road. As Mallory is in search of her past, her friends Riker and Charles Butler, are after Mallory and join with a c...more
O’Connell, Carol – 10th book
Putnam, 2006- US Hardcover – ISBN 0399153950
*** There is a dead woman in her apartment and NY detective Kathy Mallory has taken off in a VW Beetle with a Porche 911 engine to travel old Route 66. At the beginning of the highway, the intersection of Adams and Marshall in Chicago, lies a body with it’s hand pointing down the road. As Mallory is in search of her past, her friends Riker and Charles Butler, are after Mallory and join with a c...more
Mallory, a superhumanly tough cookie sort of detective, is annoyingly self righteous in this book. She is permitted to get away with murder and many lesser offenses since she's had such a tough life. Mutilated bodies pile up along with lots of dead kids along Rte 66, as Mallory follows her dad's footsteps and diary down the same road. The main character is celebrated as some kind of hero while her revenge seeking, hate driven character lays waste to all around.
This series must be read in sequence. This is the ninth book in the series and it is the best. You must understand from where all the characters are coming from or you miss the whole underlying theme and understanding of the book. Don't judge this book until you can feel all of what is happening as it is happening. This is a series, with very highly developed characters. Not one of them is perfect, but love is the driving force for all of them. Great book, great series, great author!
Apr 03, 2013
Lydia
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Lovers of truly good prose to match a truly good plot.
Recommended to Lydia by:
Goodreads First Reads (through receiving a copy of Winter House)
For those of you who have read the previous 8 Mallory novels, you will love this one in particular for the new insights we get into Mallory's life and history. As far as the action goes, it does not disappoint. The story once again has so many twists and turns that you have no problem being just as confused as Charles Butler is when he can't figure out what's going on - and YOU get to hear ALL of the story and not just his segment!
I can't praise these books enough. They are wonderful. Laugh-out-...more
I can't praise these books enough. They are wonderful. Laugh-out-...more
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Born in 1947, Carol O'Connell studied at the California Institute or Arts/Chouinard and the Arizona State University. She lives in New York City.
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