Dead Famous: Summary and book reviews of Dead Famous by Carol O'Connell, plus links to an excerpt from Dead Famous and a biography of Carol O'Connell.

Night had fallen, and the woman looked down at the crumpled letter, as if, in absolute darkness, she could read the postscript: Only a monster can play this game. In Chicago, an FBI agent is killed in a psychiatrist's waiting room. In New York, the jurors from a controversial trial are murdered one by one. The only connections between the two: a flamboyant shock-jock, whose on-air comments seem to be taking him dangerously close to the edge, and a woman, her body misshapen since childhood, whose job it is to clean up crime scenes--and maybe to create them as well. This is a federal case, and Mallory's been told that the FBI wants no part of her. But she knows something nobody else does--and, besides, when has she ever cared what anybody else wanted?

Media Reviews

Booklist - Connie Fletcher This disappointing, far-fetched addition to an innovative series is for devoted Mallory fans only.   Publishers Weekly O'Connell's post-feminist detective Kathleen Mallory returns full-throttle for an eighth grisly urban crime saga...O'Connell sets the standard in crime fiction.   Library Journal - Leslie Madden Fast-paced and complex, this novel offers a twist ending that readers won't see coming.   Kirkus Reviews Memorable characters and blazingly original prose. Once again, O'Connell transcends the genre.

Recent Reader Reviews

Rated of 5 by Leslie Nation

I am 14, and I enjoyed this book because it was such a thriller, suspenceful, and made you wonder what would happen next to Detective Kathleen Mallory. A good book I enjoyed.

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