The Chalk Girl
Carol O'Connell

The astonishing new Mallory novel from the New York Times-bestselling author.

The little girl appeared in Central Park: red-haired, blue-eyed, smiling, perfect—except for the blood on her shoulder. It fell from the sky, she said, while she was looking for her uncle, who turned into a tree. Poor child, people thought. And then they found the body in the tree.

For Mallory, newly returned to the Special Crimes Unit after three months’ lost time, there is something about the girl that she understands. Mallory is damaged, they say, but she can tell a kindred spirit. And this one will lead her to a story of extraordinary crimes: murders stretching back fifteen years, blackmail and complicity and a particular cruelty that only someone with Mallory’s history could fully recognize. In the next few weeks, she will deal with them all . . . in her own way.

(A Mallory Novel #10)
Putnam, January 2012
ISBN-10: 0399157743
ISBN-13: 9780399157745
304 pages Hardcover
$26.95

Also by Carol O'Connell:
The Judas Child, June 2010
Killing Critics, May 2010
Bone By Bone, November 2009
Bone by Bone, January 2009
Find Me, October 2007
Winter House, September 2005
Winter House, November 2004
Dead Famous, September 2004
Shell Game, August 2000
Judas Child, August 1999
Stone Angel, July 1998
Killing Critics, July 1997
The Man Who Cast Two Shadows, July 1996
Mallory's Oracle, June 1995

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