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    Winter House: A Mallory Novel
    Winter House: A Mallory Novel
    Winter House: A Mallory Novel
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    Winter House: A Mallory Novel

    Written by Carol O'Connell

    Narrated by Alyssa Bresnahan

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    About this audiobook

    Carol 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 homeowner. 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherListen & Live Audio
    Release dateApr 8, 2024
    ISBN9781593163143
    Winter House: A Mallory Novel

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    • 4/5
      This book was the first one that I have read by O'Connell, and I really enjoyed it. O'Connell delivered a good mystery that kept the reader guessing until the end. With so many twists and turns, it was hard to discover the truth about what happened at Winter House sixty years before. Mallory was an interesting character who was fun to read about. I did like how she did her own thing her own way, and I would like to read another book with this character. Since I didn't read the other books in the series, I wasn't familiar with Mallory's relationships with her partners, and her foster father's friends, but I still got a good sense of those relationships from this book. I do think that this book could be read without having read the rest in the series, but I think it would be better to have read previous books. Overall this was a great book that I would recommend if you enjoy a lot of twists and turns with your mystery.
    • 3/5
      Well-crafted, but these Mallory tales are damn bleak.
    • 5/5
      Going to have to tack the others in this series down as it was a well crafted read. Superbly written, suspense and the 'strangeness' of the lead detective all went to make it such a good read. Mallory made me think of her antithesis - Dallas, with a little bit of Dexter mixed in...
    • 5/5
      The arc of Kathy Mallory's character swings through the first four books and then again in the second four, whch conclude with this superb novel.
    • 4/5
      In 1947, most of the wealthy Winter family was murdered by an ice pick in their Manhattan mansion. Two children survived while one went missing. 58 years later, the missing girl Nedda - now an elderly woman - was found in a Maine insane asylum. She returns to the mansion where she gets a cold greeting. Shortly after her return, a bailed serial killer suspect is killed with a ice pick when entering the mansion.Mallory's police partner Rider fell in love in Dead Famous, only of course to have his heart broken. Here, it is poor Charles Butler, Mallory's psychologist partner and secret admirer, who is damaged by the flow of the plot, not because he loses his love, for there no Mallory series without Mallory, but because he loses his first patient, Nedda. Mallory is pissed by this too since Nedda's life so resembles her own. The climatic scene, when Mallory - once again - terrifies a murderer into a confession, is of course unrealistic but also deeply satisfying.
    • 4/5
      What a pleasure to have rediscovered Mallory. These latest books are excellent additions to this admittedly love-em-or-hate-em, willing-suspension-of-disbelief series. It's just wonderful to find a character who is relentless in her resistence to compromise. This is a nice gothic New York procedural with an above average supporting cast.
    • 5/5
      This book is one of a series of books by Carol O'Connell about a beautiful, damaged, maverick, and almost sociopathic detective named Kathleen Mallory (who insists on being called simply "Mallory"), and the people that love her despite her flaws: Charles, an intelligent, rich, but ugly family friend; Lou, the cop that takes her in; and Riker, a close friend of her adopted father. The relationships that develop between these characters as they solve crimes together are the focus of the series. This story (the eighth in the series), has Mallory solving a 50 year old mystery and a recent murder concurrently. The story is interesting and multi-layered, as are all of the Mallory stories.
    • 5/5
      One of my favorite series. This is where O'Connell really shone, with a protagonist and characters who were both sympathetic and adversarial. I'm looking forward to going back and re-reading all of her Kathleen Mallory stories. They are exceptional.
    • 4/5
      When I picked up Winter House at the local library, I had never read any of Carol O'Connell's Mallory mysteries before. In the early pages of the book, I had some difficulty getting "into" the story. It seemed kind of slow going, Not that nothing was going on; there was a murder, with a longstanding local mystery attached. But it felt a little tedious at firest. And Mallory isn't a particularly likeable protagonist -- at least, not on the surface. I'm glad I stayed with the book, because I eventually got swept right into the story, and found myself liking it more and more -- especially a certain twist right at the end, when I thought it was all over. Then I was totally hooked, and wasted no time looking up other books in the series.
    • 5/5
      "Crazy people drive sane people crazy."Wow. Very well written. I had no idea where this book was heading most of the way through the story. Lots of twists, lots of secrets that weren't given away too early in the book. The end was much different than I had expected. This is definitely an author to watch.
    • 3/5
      I think it will take a re-read to understand quite what went on in this story. I liked it better than the previous two--best since Stone Angel--but still rather cerebral.
    • 1/5
      I found this novel unsatisfying; it simply did not engage me. This is my first Kathleen Mallory novel, and she an ineffectual protagonist. Kathleen seemed emotionally (and maybe mentally) disturbed with no clear explantion. For instance, she uses her lockpicks to enter homes of suspects, friends, everyone, on any occation. When Kathleen is upset at the death of Nedda Winters, a suspect in a series of murders, Kathleen pounds the wall with her fist until her hand is broken and bleeding and there is a hole in the wall.I did come across an interesting comment about Catholic confession. Biddy says, "Imagine, a little room where you can take your soul to be cleaned."
    • 5/5
      Another excellent Mallory mystery! This time, Mallory goes up against an old woman who turns out to be "Red" Winter, who disappeared 50 or so years earlier at the age of 12 after the massacre of her family by someone wielding an ice pick. Now Red is back, and there's another dead body ~ killed by an icepick ~ which she's admitted to killing.