The soft-spoken O’Connell talked about her book, which she said was inspired partly by a newspaper story on William’s Syndrome, a genetic condition, and Central Park’s notorious Ramble, a wooded area once the lair of muggers and addicts. Mallory is being punished with desk duty after an extended leave when rats start falling from the sky in New York’s Central Park and a mysterious red-haired child appears in a t-shirt with blood on her shoulders, leading Mallory into a labyrinth of crimes and murders stretching back years. Mallory, the star of a series of bestselling novels, now returns in “The Chalk Girl,” her ninth adventure, after a multi-year wait. TOKYO (Reuters) - Green-eyed, blonde and tall, Kathy Mallory is respected and feared by the cops who work with her, described sometimes as a cat playing with a mouse and nicknamed “Mallory the Machine.”Įven her creator, author Carol O’Connell, says she’s not entirely sure how much she might actually like her own heroine in real life.
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