Summary and Reviews of Dead Famous by Carol O'Connell

Dead Famous by Carol O'Connell

Dead Famous

A Kathleen Mallory Thriller

by Carol O'Connell
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  • Sep 1, 2003, 304 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Sep 2004, 336 pages
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An FBI agent is killed and the jurors from a controversial trial are murdered one by one. The only connections between the two are a flamboyant shock-jock and a woman whose job is to clean up crime scenes.

Night had fallen, and the woman looked down at the crumpled letter, as if, in absolute darkness, she could read the postscript: Only a monster can play this game.

In Chicago, an FBI agent is killed in a psychiatrist's waiting room. In New York, the jurors from a controversial trial are murdered one by one. The only connections between the two: a flamboyant shock-jock, whose on-air comments seem to be taking him dangerously close to the edge, and a woman, her body misshapen since childhood, whose job it is to clean up crime scenes--and maybe to create them as well. This is a federal case, and Mallory's been told that the FBI wants no part of her. But she knows something nobody else does--and, besides, when has she ever cared what anybody else wanted?

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Memorable characters and blazingly original prose. Once again, O'Connell transcends the genre.

Library Journal - Leslie Madden
Fast-paced and complex, this novel offers a twist ending that readers won't see coming.

Publishers Weekly
O'Connell's post-feminist detective Kathleen Mallory returns full-throttle for an eighth grisly urban crime saga...O'Connell sets the standard in crime fiction.

Booklist - Connie Fletcher
This disappointing, far-fetched addition to an innovative series is for devoted Mallory fans only.

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