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Find Me (A Mallory Novel Book 9) Kindle Edition

by Carol O'Connell (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Book 9 of 12: Mallory

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On Route 66, as word travels that children's grave sites are being discovered along the road, the parents of missing children form a silent caravan. They are being shepherded by NYPD Detective Kathleen Mallory, who seeks a killer like none she has ever known-and a child unlike the others: herself.

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A complex tale of murder, betrayal and unexpected revelations of self-discovery are some of the compelling elements that make up this exceptional entry into O'Connell's mystery series featuring a NYPD detective and ex-feral child, Kathy Mallory. While on a deeply personal road trip along Route 66, Mallory gets caught up in a manhunt for a serial killer. The investigating authorities believe Mack the Knife has been murdering children and burying them along the old highway for over a decade, with the death toll reaching more than 100. When adult bodies begin showing up, Mallory embarks on a mission to end the murder's killing streak, no matter what the cost. Bresnahan manages to balance multiple viewpoints and a wide variety of characters without resorting to over-the-top vocal theatrics. Her clear, matter-of-fact delivery keeps the plot moving at a steady pace and works well with the material. She is especially effective in her portrayal of the no-nonsense Mallory, a troubled character who never lets emotions get in the way of her job. Bresnahan's narration pulls the listener deep into this absorbing and suspenseful story.
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Early on in this ninth Kathleen Mallory novel, O'Connell observes, "By definition, enigmas lacked clarity." That oracular sentence perfectly captures the cloudy world of the Mallory novels, starring the most unlikely of NYPD detectives, a "feral" child adopted and raised by another NYPD officer and his wife. The action here begins with Mallory having disappeared from New York, and Riker, her partner, wondering if the dead woman in Mallory's apartment is a suicide or the victim of the detective's long-feared sociopathic meltdown. Meanwhile, Mallory is hurtling toward Chicago and mythic Route 66 in a VW Beetle ragtop pumped up on Porsche steroids. She's on the trail of a serial child killer who shares her obsession with the road and has been burying the bodies of female children along the fabled highway for decades. When Mallory's manic passage along 66 brings her to a forlorn caravan of parents looking for their lost children under the leadership of a weary--and possibly weird--old psychologist, Find Me quickly becomes a stunning novel of loss, anguish, psychosis, love, and redemption. The narrative is onionlike: events, motives, and other narrative necessities are peeled away layer by layer. Some layers work, others don't; a monumentally bent FBI agent leading a platoon of "body snatchers" ahead of the caravan strains credulity. But the anguish of the sad searchers and Mallory's own obsession with 66, and with her own lost childhood, simply require the reader to share the obsessions and see the story through to its end. Dense, demanding, and very powerful. Thomas Gaughan
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000P6YMJO
Publisher ‏ : ‎ G.P. Putnam's Sons (December 28, 2006)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 28, 2006
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1021 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 376 pages

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Krzysztof Fialkowski

Fortunately, not the last

Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2011

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I read "Find me" quite recently, since I was not sure if I want to know how the "Mallory" series ends. In fact, I thought already once that it's over, when I read "Stone angel" and it was difficult to rediscover Mallory again. Now I know that there is a new Carol O'Connell's "Mallory" book and I'm quite confused.
This is because I came to terms with the fact that I will no longer meet Mallory again. I do not want to spoil the lecture for future readers, but "Find me" is in a sense a perfect finale to the series. In a double track of this novel, Mallory solves the last mystery of her past and meets an ultimate monster. She seems to be resigned to the fact that once these tasks are done, her life is no longer relevant. And then...
I am sure I will come back many times to this book. However, I do not know how I will dare to start reading "The chalk girl". Any ideas?

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ellen george

One of the best of the series so far

Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2007

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Since the first Mallory book, Mallory's Oracle, we get bits and pieces about the 'Baby Thief' - she was alone, feeding out of trash cans, sleepng where she could. She was taken in by Helen and Louis Markowitz, and finally the girl found safety and love. But she never forgot why she had to live in the streets. She had a telephone # written on her hand, partially blurred. She would call all variations of that # and say 'Hi it's Kathy. I'm lost.' But no connections came from those calls..The Markowitzs gave her love and safety, but...
When the Markowitz's are gone, Mallory has a career as a Detective with NYPD. Her only friends are her foster father's poker buddies, including Charles Butler and Detective Riker, also with NYPD.
Mallory is missing from work and Riker gets a call that someone has been found dead in Mallory's apartment. When Charles and Riker go into Mallory's computer room, they find she unlocked the puzzle of the partial telephone number, and has a clue to her childhood. And so begins her journey.
Mallory has been given letters her father wrote, addressed to 'OB'. They show his passions - a silver suped up Beetle, and traveling the old Route 66. She follows his journey down the old road in her own version of a suped up Beetle. But she is not alone - there are families of lost children following that path to find their lost ones. There have been children's skeletons found on the route, and someone seems to have been using that road to kill lost children. Mallory joins them and becomes part of the team to solve this mystery. A lost child trying to find her people..Butler and Riker find her and follow also.
Here comes the rub - there is more info on the caravan, the lost ones, the FBI participants, it becomes 'ad nauseum'.
But do not give up on this book, for it will solve the mystery Mallory has been looking for. I have been reading the Mallory books since the beginning, and the answers from previous books are there.
The ending is so worth getting through the caravan stuff. We see Mallory as no one has seen her before. How this ending will effect subsequent books, one can only speculate. But speculate you will.
A must for Mallory fans.

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WORTHWHILE INSTALLMENT IN O’CONNELL’S ENTRALLING MALLORY SERIES

Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2022

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This is Book 9 of 12 in the author’s popular Mallory Book series. Initially published over a decade and a half ago it was only this past January that I discovered this wonderful author and her riveting, addictive novels that feature NYPD Special Crimes Detective Kathleen Mallory and the recurring cast of colorful characters who populate her universe. The plot of each book is unique but the stories are continued with the same characters. Readers who like continuing characterization and following the character arcs of a fantastic assortment of a supporting cast will love the entire Mallory series.

FIND ME begins with Mallory leaving New York City in the rearview mirror of a customized Volkswagen Beetle ragtop convertible. Fans of the series will be more surprised by the car she is driving and her leaving her sterile home office disorganized than by the discovery of a woman’s corpse with a fatal gunshot wound.

This installment is singularly special in that it is the second time Mallory has sped out of the city, but more significantly this time around she is following a map and guide written by the father she never knew as she travels along mythic Route 66. The first time was chronicled in STONE ANGEL where Mallory goes home to settle the score for her mother’s murder. In FIND ME, the author fills in still more of Mallory’s back story when she leaves the NYPD, her partner Riker, and everyone else behind to search for her father.

O’Connell’s plots are invariably highly imaginative, incredibly original, compelling, and complex. The storylines are multi-layered, often with subplots, and always with a narrative style that manages to mix poetic prose, scintillating dialogue, sardonic humor, and a relentless yet perfect pace. Mallory’s “tricked-out” VW Beetle with the racing power of a Porsche engine provides some wicked humor. Mallory’s face-offs with other police personnel, FBI Agents, and other characters in the book always injects a dose of satisfying adrenaline. There are two parallel story lines that weave throughout the novel, and the layers of the narratives are gradually peeled away as the book unfolds. Mallory’s across country drive along Route 66 collides with the hunt for a serial killer who is equally obsessed by the historical road and has been littering along its path by discarding the bodies of female children for several decades. The two parallel stories merge when Mallory discovers a caravan of haunted parents and family members still searching for their lost children. They are led by an aged psychologist who was there at the beginning of the nightmare to counsel the devastated families. It is at this juncture that Mallory joins the hunt for a remorseless child killer whose body count is likely to be a hundred little girls. It is likely because the child killer changed his MO and has now begun to “pick off” adult members of the grieving families.

Riker and Charles are amidst the fray, but they are not in sync with Mallory. Riker had been essentially “shadowing” Mallory because of some erratic behavior she exhibited before abruptly leaving town. Charles had been in Europe nursing a broken heart after he had proposed to Mallory. The two men who love her are assisting with the manhunt for the serial killer on the fabled Route 66. There are lot of pieces to the puzzle and the author was perhaps a little too ambitious with at least one of the threads, specifically the lead FBI Agent and his machinations, as well as motivations. In the case of this novel, just set aside a fantastical element and enjoy the ride down Route 66 which is truly an unforgettable journey.

The most riveting aspect of this novel is the underlying question of whether Mallory’s own father is a suspect in this hunt for the prolific serial killer who has preyed upon victims along Route 66 for decades. The reader is anxious to learn the secrets behind the dead woman left in Mallory’s apartment, and Riker learns that Mallory has a cache of letters written by her father in her possession. She is following the mythical route her father loved and stopping by each of the landmarks described in his letters. Her journey intersects with an all-out manhunt for a ruthless killer of children and more recently adults. The answers to the most pressing questions are not answered until toward the end of the book. Mallory figures out the identity of the killer, and the showdown between the two is electric in its intensity and unforgettable in its execution. If the climax as just described was as intense as any meeting of hunter and prey I have ever read, then the author’s conclusion was ingenious.

This installment was met with some controversy when it was first released to its adoring fan base, but having the advantage of reading it long after it was published, I feel that its strengths far outweigh any valid minor criticisms. FIND ME serves to flesh out the enigmatic Mallory’s familial history while she remains a beautiful and perfect predator whose psyche defies categorization.

Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2019

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Please, please get the next Cold Case book written fast. It can’t stop here and I’ll be in agony waiting! For other readers, any comments I would have given before are changed by this book. The characters are more fleshed out, the case tighter and it makes all the difference! This is a great read, but get through the others first. A lot of background in them that I’m now glad I didn’t miss!

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I love the books about 'Mallory'

Reviewed in Canada on July 27, 2017

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I had read most of Caro O'Connell's 'Mallory' books before but lost track of them. I decided to get all of the ones I read plus a few new ones that I had not previously purchased. I love the books about 'Mallory'.

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SL

Höchstspannung bis zum letzten Buchstaben...

Reviewed in Germany on November 9, 2009

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... wenn Kathy Mallory, die außergewöhnlichste Detektivin New Yorks, entlang der Route 66 auf eigene Faust einen Serienkiller jagt. Ihrem langjährigen Partner Riker immer einen Schritt voraus, bis der sich nicht mehr sicher ist, ob er ihr noch vertrauen kann. Denn die Waffe sitzt bei der attraktiven Polizistin gerne mal locker. Doch wenn es darauf ankommt, sind sie ein unschlagbares Team.
Ein absolutes 'must' für Fans dieser Reihe und für die, die Kathy Mallory neu kennen lernen möchten.

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J. Flaton

The Unlikely Travelling Companion to Route 66

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 14, 2007

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What happens if Kathy Mallory, NYPD's finest sociopath with a golden shield, travels along the road with America's finest history attached to it: Route 66? You get a murderous trail of little bodies buried in the desert, a child killer and the writer's personal version of Dante's Purgatory.

There is a flaw in O'Connell's writings, but an eminent one: you need to travel with Mallory in the order in which her story is unfolding, all eight books before this one. This is not a marketing gimmick, this is the way O'Connell is developing one of the most unique characters in writing, and not only in crime writing.

"Find Me" is especially harrowing, as we're travelling with a host of parents along Route 66, searching for any sign of their missing children, many of them buried alongside this Mother of all roads. O'Connell is one of the few authors who can, and does, write about the devastation and hope of people who have gone through Dante's hell but still keep pursuing their bitter dreams about their lost ones, as if they need redemption themselves. We'll never know if Mallory has ever though about her own life in such terms as O'Connor has always rejected any cheap "psychological" solution, preferring instead to let the story unfold itself. And because Mallory and her "band of brothers" - no sisters here, except her foster mother Helen Markowitz - do indeed live a full life of drama and grim humour any reader worth his or her salt is drawn into these stories with a brutal force, brutal as life itself.

When writing this review I caught myself when typing the name "Kathy", as Mallory almost never accepts anybody using her first name. I had to remind myself that I'm writing about a fictional character. "Just Mallory," she introduces herself time and again, and I had to check myself not to look over my shoulder. Such is the power, etc...

To resume, yes, the thriller elements are there, and the plotting is, as usual, fiendishly convoluted. And when Mallory's green eyes fall like spotlights on that unhappy family of agents called the FBI you nearly wish them a safe career move. Another agency perhaps?

But in the course of Mallory's travels in those nine books you stand in awe of a writer who treats not only her protagonist en the circle around her with respect, but the reader as well, and that's rarity these days. We're never treated with pages of psychological explanations about the past of her characters; it is the story itself that gives you some insight, some glimpses of Mallory's own Route 66, with all the drama, grim humour and tragedies that are unfolded in clear prose. Including the marvellous way in which the first chapter is tied to the last one, in such a manner that the reader is taken totally by surprise. I'm sure I ended the book with just such a foolish grin as Charles Butler, one of Mallory's memorable friends.

There is this other author, Andrew Vachss, who's nearly as good as she is, especially with the ferocity in which he writes about a society that's quite willing to cannibalize its own children with a smile, but who somehow lost his sure footing with his protagonist Burke, probably the only fictional character who could understand Mallory.

O'Connell is human, and she could falter. So, every year or so when I open a new book of her, a new chapter of Mallory's life, I'm worried if it's good, but not as good as her last one. What will happen with her devoted readers then? Will they all become devote little sociopaths? Let us keep our fingers crossed. But for now O'Connell is, at least in the eyes of this reviewer, one of the truly great American writers. And this book confirms that again.

I have no green eyes.

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Michael Watson

Mallory fascinates

Reviewed in Canada on September 20, 2015

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I don't usually find female writers have the hard edge that I look for, but OConnell is a definite exception. Mallory is probably the most fascinating character in the genre. I have now read the entire series, and Find Me is my favourite.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 14, 2006

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"Book Description:

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 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. A silent caravan of cars, dozens of them, drives down that road, each passenger bearing a photograph, but none of them the same. They are the parents of missing children, some recently disappeared, some gone a decade or more-all brought together by word that childrens' grave sites are being discovered along the Mother Road.

Kathy Mallory drives with them. The child she seeks, though, is not like the others'. It is herself-the feral child adopted off the streets, her father a blank, her mother dead and full of mysteries. During the next few extraordinary days, Mallory will find herself hunting a killer like none she has ever known, and will undergo a series of revelations not only of stunning intensity- but stunning effect."

This is a book description copied from Amazon.com rather than a review, I've put it here as there are no details for Amazon.co.uk customers.

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