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The reviews called it “A Play to Die For” after a woman was found dead in the front row. It didn’t seem so funny the next night when another body was found—this time the playwright himself, his throat slashed. Detective Kathy Mallory of the NYPD Special Crimes Unit takes over, but isn’t getting a straight answer from anyone. Not the lead actor, a movie star fallen on hard luck; not the lead actress, a nervous sort with a dependence on pharmaceuticals; not even the wardrobe mistress, working under an alias; and certainly not the twin actors so unnervingly convincing playing psychos.
Now, backstage, someone has left Mallory a message on the blackboard: Tonight’s the night. Nothing personal. It appears that she is being written into the play itself, a play about a long-ago massacre that may not be fictional after all.
If Mallory can find out who’s responsible, heads will roll. Unfortunately, one of them might be her own.
- Sales Rank: #79062 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-08-20
- Released on: 2013-08-20
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
From Booklist
This latest addition to the popular Mallory series, launched in 1995 with Mallory’s Oracle, seems almost like a send-up of the tough detective novel, so over the top are Mallory’s appearances and other people’s reactions to her. Kathy Mallory is an NYPD detective whose beauty and insight overwhelm everyone. As does her rudeness: Mallory’s way of ordering people around more befits a traffic cop than a detective. This one has a Broadway background: two deaths occur in two nights in the audience of a play; the second one is that of the playwright. O’Connell resurrects the Phantom of the Opera device of having notes delivered to the actors; here, someone writes threats and directions on a backstage blackboard. This does intensify the suspense but in a somewhat formulaic way. Not at the level of some other Mallory mysteries but necessary reading for devoted fans. --Connie Fletcher
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Praise for the Kathy Mallory series by Carol O'Connell
""The Chalk Girl" is an event - any Mallory book is. She is as fine a fictional creation as the crime genre offers." - Janet Maslin, "The New York Times"
"Like every mother's child, every author's detective is exceptional. But Carol O'Connell takes it way over the top with the mythic scale of her mad-genius New York City cop, Kathy Mallory." - Marilyn Stasio, "The New York Times Book Review"
"O'Connell's awesome ability to weave a taut, complex plot works with Mallory's equally awesome detective skills as she unearths each crystalline facet of crimes both past and present." - "Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
"A remarkable series. O'Connell delivers shock after shock, held together by exquisitely detailed police and forensic procedure and by the riveting, punishing figure of Mallory herself." - "Booklist" (starred review)
"O'Connell offers more than a suspenseful tale; she portrays a complex world of dark and light, corruption and love. Another must-read in a compelling and rich crime series." - "Library Journal" (starred review)
"My new favorite in a long line of mysteries by Carol O'Connell that I have greatly admired and enjoyed. Mallory is one of the great characters ever in detective fiction. She's tall, beautiful, scary smart and...just plain scary. A great read, filled with O'Connell's command of humor, pathos and drama." - "San Jose Mercury News"
"O'Connell's writing is electric, her plots multilayered, and her cast of characters fascinating." - "Sacramento Bee"
"Wow, my vote for the most terrifying and gripping January read. It will chill you to the bone with a plot rising right out of the Brothers Grimm." - Barbara Peters, Poisoned Pen
"Mallory is one of the most fascinating characters in crime fiction. Before Lisbeth Salander, there was Mallory." - Joanne Sinchuk, Murder on the Beach
About the Author
CAROL O'CONNELL is the author of eleven Mallory novels, most recently "The Chalk Girl," and two stand-alones. She lives in New York City.
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55 of 57 people found the following review helpful.
Too Much Schtick
By Mick McAllister
A few years ago, I would not have believed that I'd ever rate a Mallory novel with three stars. I've been following O'Connell since 1997, when I ran across Killing Critics and over the course of about six months read all four Mallory books (including a British edition of Stone Angel published in advance of the American edition). With the exception of the terrible misfire of Bone by Bone (not a Mallory novel) O'Connell's books have all been treasures; challenging sometimes, but always entertaining, thoughtful, and well-written. O'Connell's other non-Mallory novel, Judas Child, will be a candidate when someone creates a "Ten Best Mysteries" list.
I'm hesitant to judge It Happens in the Dark, because a few of the books (Shell Game, Dead Famous) require second reading to be appreciated. Maybe when I re-read this one I'll find ironies and insights I missed the first time. But I'm afraid not. What is fundamentally wrong is clear from the first pages. The dynamic and tension of Kathy's relationship with her friends has become hollow bombast. The text keeps wondering why Slope doesn't shoot her. Well, he hasn't shot her for twenty years, why would he now? Her treatment of Rabbi Kaplan, Riker, and Charles Butler no longer has any ambiguity to it. Kathy's sociopathy has no sympathetic tangle to it, she is just hateful and vicious. A reader without the backstory would wonder why anyone puts up with her. There is a kind of pervasive meanness about the book that feels very uncomfortable.
Here's one little element that illustrates what I mean. A continuing gag in the series is Detective Janos, who is huge, scary-looking, and a very, very nice guy. For some reason O'Connell injects a new element into that characterization. Every time Janos is being nice, O'Connell accompanies it with a sadistic inner monologue about what he COULD do, if he weren't so nice. It gets old fast, it adds nothing to the plot, and it trivializes Janos in a way that's embarrassing.
Maybe this book will do well with initiates, people who haven't read any of the other books. It's a neat little "locked room" mystery and the solution is interestingly convoluted. But I suspect that's not going to be enough. The Nebraska subplot (the obligatory "old crime" that Kathy solves while pursuing the new one) is confusing and unconvincing. It's obvious who the culprit is, and there is no coherent explanation why the sheriff never solved the case.
But worst of all, a first reader is not going to buy Kathy. We have to take for granted her talent for scaring people just by looking at them, which she does to everyone in the first fifty-odd pages. She doesn't just demand agreement from her friends, she demands absolute obedience. She doesn't dazzle a few men into clumsy incoherence, she does it to everyone, including women. It's degenerated into schtick, and not very interesting schtick. I imagine trying to explain to a first reader why they should care about Kathy, and I throw up my hands.
What made Mallory interesting was not her sociopathy, but her struggle with it. What we were attracted to was not the "Mean Machine," but the woman who threw a rock through Charles' window to apologize for hurting him. In The Chalk Girl, she struggles with her identification with the orphaned girl, and her maternal instincts may remind us of Grendel's mother, but it's the instincts, not the monster, that's interesting. There is nothing interesting about hating Sparrow; what we care about is the Kathy who read to her while she lay dying.
If this series is going anywhere, it's time to fish or cut bait. Kathy needs to screw up in the next novel, screw up badly enough that she can't rationalize her way out of it, and screw up on her own terms. She needs a good, solid slap that she deserves, and then we'll see if she crumbles, goes rogue, or grows up. There's nothing that interesting in this novel.
Everybody can be off their game, even James Lee Burke and, this time, Carol O'Connell. Unless I missed something....
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Disappointing
By PLM
This was definitely not as good as the other books in the Mallory series.
Here, Mallory is not only damaged as usual, but she is cruel.
There are so many suspects in this mystery with many corpses that it
Is impossible to have any sympathy for any of them.
the story unfolds in a Manhattan theater with actors, playwrights
and stagehands. They are all unbelievable.
62 of 75 people found the following review helpful.
It's so Mallory!
By Trouble
It's always wonderful to open a Mallory book while she is decimating an imbecile who doesn't know it yet. It's fun to see them turn into roadkill. She's so beautiful and scary and so...Mallory.
It's a rather complex story at the beginning. A Broadway play tries to open but is besieged by money and legal problems. Then it opens and someone in the audience dies. Then it opens AGAIN and the playwright, seated in the front row, is murdered during a 40 second blackout. Then it turns out that the playwright is not, as a ghostwriter has been rewriting the play and IMPROVING it. Hence the legal problems as Peter the Playwright tries to stop it from opening. And then there is another dead body.
Added to this the ghostwriter is making the play about a massacre thirteen-hundred miles away and a sheriff from that massacre who shares several qualities with Mallory and you have a great bunch of mysteries.
This is the eleventh Mallory book. (I have a Listmania on my profile page named Kathy Mallory with the eleven books and two other not-Mallory books.) I can't imagine reading this without having the knowledge of the earlier books. Mallory's name, itself, is the name of her mother's killer. The name of a virus she created is Good Dog, which was the name of the dog she left behind when fleeing while her mother was murdered, and Good Dog does what she wants it to do. The dog tried to stop the killing, and nearly died trying, but survived 16 years to torment her mother's killers.
Not unlike Mallory.
There is a richness to the story, to all stories about Mallory, which feed upon each other. Like the heartrending picture of Charles, near the end of The Chalk Girl, when we see a 90-year-old Charles sitting in his backyard with his grandchildren, pulling petals off from daisies, saying, Kathy had a heart, Kathy didn't have a heart, for each petal, never having been able to decide this on his own. We briefly revisit a 90 year old Charles, as he lay dying, and still struggling to understand Kathy, This time, it is a great-granddaughter who turns off his bedside lamp. Could he have ever loved anyone else? Could his family be anyone other than Kathy's? How?
Then there is the shattering kindness Kathy shows when we discover she has snuck into Charles' apartment every night to change the fireflies in a glass jar on the nightstand beside a young orphan's bed. She may use the girl to capture a killer but she would not let her find dead fireflies in the morning.
A Kathy Mallory book is a wonder to behold. Once I know about one, I can't rest until it is in my grubby little hands. Then I can't sleep until I've read the whole darned thing. So it's like wait and wait and wait and wait and read and then wait and wait and... well, you know. I wish she would just stream Mallory to my brain.
-Gertrude, the Bad Queen
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