Shark Music

by Carol O ' Connell (Author)

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  2008

  $3.25

  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 the 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 the word that children's gravesites are being discovered along the Mother Road. Detective Sergeant 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 unknown, her mother dead, their past a mystery. During the next few extraordinary days, Mallory will find herself hunting a killer like none she has come across before, and uncovering the secrets that have haunted her all her life.

• Used

  Paperback
  2007

  $3.25

  'Love is the death of me,' read the handwritten note. The gunshot victim was found in Detective Sergeant Kathy Mallory's apartment. It was not clear at first if it was homicide or suicide. And Mallory had disappeared...But by a trace of credit card activity, Mallory's faithful partner, Riker, knew that she had filled her gas tank in the states of Pennsylvania and Ohio. She was leaving a trail. Eight hundred miles from New York, another corpse had been found - a man, laid out on the tarmac, pointing towards Route 66. Over the years a number of bodies had been discovered along this famous road - all little girls, aged between five and seven. Mallory's mother had died when she was only six, and she had never known her father. She was a child of high technology and cold logic, but there was a void within her which could only be assuaged by recovering her past. Shark Music is Carol O'Connell's finest achievement - a thrilling, complex and emotional novel which explores the hopes and despairs of lost parents and lost children. It is a journey which can only end in tears. 'It is seldom that critics make a unanimous judgement. But when O'Connell unleashed New York cop Kathy Mallory on an unsuspecting world in Mallory's Oracle, every one agreed that there had never been a fictional detective like her ...Mallory grips us like a hand on the throat.' - The Times .