SummaryCarol 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 Mercury News. "A
tough and brilliant action-, wit-, and surprise-packed
novel."
But never has Mallory faced as many surprises as in the
case before her now. It seems cut-and-dried at first: a
burglar has been caught in the act and killed by an ice
pick-wielding home owner. Except that the home owner turns
out to be the most famous lost child in NYPD history,
missing for almost sixty years, thought to have been
kidnapped following the massacre of her family: five
siblings, father, stepmother, nanny, and housekeeper -
nearly the entire household wiped out . . . with an ice
pick.
Filled with the intricate plotting and extraordinary
characterization that are O'Connell's hallmarks, Winter
House is her most powerful-and most astonishing-novel yet.
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