Flight Of The Stone Angel

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Intriguing , original and disturbing ... a very good, powerful story of crime and detection' The Times The young stranger came to town just past twelve noon. Within an hour, the idiot had been assaulted, hands bloodied and broken; Deputy Travis suffered a major stroke at the wheel of his patrol car; and Babe Laurie was found murdered. The young stranger who had preceded all of these events was sitting in a jail cell ... That stranger is Kathy Mallory. Having left her detective's badge back in New York, she has made her way to Dayborn, a small town in the wetlands of Louisiana. There, seventeen years earlier, an unspeakably brutal act had changed her life forever. Now she is back to take a very personal revenge ...

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"Bewitching bayou Gothic ... I have rarely read a more original and haunting murder scene" Independent "There's never been a fictional detective like Kathy Mallory ... You won't read another crime novel quite like this all year" -- Val McDermid

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Born in 1947, Carol O'Connell studied at the California Institute of Arts/Chouinard and the Arizona State University. She lives now in New York City.