Carol O'Connell
Born in 1947, Carol O'Connell studied at the California
Institute or Arts/Chouinard and the Arizona State
University. For many years she survived on occasional
sales of her paintings as well as freelance proof-reading
and copy-editing.
At the age of 46, Carol O'Connell sent the manuscript of
Mallory's Oracle to Hutchinson, because she felt that a
British publisher would be sympathetic to a first time
novelist and because Hutchinson also publish Ruth Rendell.
Having miraculously found the book on the 'slush pile',
Hutchinson immediately came back with an offer for world
rights, not just for, Mallory's Oracle but for the second
book featuring the same captivating heroine.
At the Frankfurt Book Fair, Hutchinson sold the rights to
Dutch, French and German publishers for six figure sums.
Mallory's Oracle was then taken back to the States where
it was sold, at auction, to Putnam for over $800,000.
Carol O'Connell is now writing full time.
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Books
The Judas Child
June 1, 2010
In a quiet New York suburb, three days before Christmas, two
little girls have disappeared. It’s a calculated and
chilling reminder of a crime that happened once before,
fifteen years ago to Read more...
Killing Critics
May 4, 2010
“The new wave of art was first heralded by the
graffiti artist who attacked the city walls—artist
attacks architecture. Then it progressed to the vandal
artist who scarred the art of others—artist attacks
art. Read more...
Bone By Bone
November 3, 2009
Brothers Oren and Josh disappear into the woods. Only Oren
comes out. Twenty years later, the mystery of what happened
to Josh is going to be exposed, and somebody is finally
sending him Read more...
Bone by Bone
December 30, 2008
A stunning stand-alone novel from the
national-bestselling author who "has raised the standard for
psychological thrillers" (Chicago Tribune).
Carol O'Connell's most recent Mallory novel, Find
Me, was one of the most highly praised suspense
novels Read more...
Find Me
(Mallory Series #9)
October 2, 2007
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 Read more...
Winter House
September 6, 2005
A reclusive senior citizen kills an intruder—but
there's more to the story. In Carol O'Connell's new novel
New York City officer Kathleen Mallory purges a woman of her
mysterious past—and the flesh-and-blood ghosts Read more...
Winter House
October 21, 2004
Carol O'Connell's last novel, Dead Famous, made multiple
best-of-year lists and won critical acclaim
nationwide. "O'Connell brings a hard edge of greatness to
the crime thriller," wrote the San Jose Read more...
Dead Famous
September 1, 2004
Jurors on a controversial trial are being killed off one
by one, and only Detective Kathleen Mallory can figure out
why. But the FBI has told her to lay off Read more...
Dead Famous
September 1, 2003
Crime School
September 1, 2002
A wild child turned New York City policewoman, Mallory was
adopted off the streets as a small girl. Very little has
ever really been known about what happened to her Read more...
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