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    Find Me: A Mallory Novel
    Find Me: A Mallory Novel
    Find Me: A Mallory Novel
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    Find Me: A Mallory Novel

    Written by Carol O'Connell

    Narrated by Alyssa Bresnahan

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    About this audiobook

    A mutilated body is found lying on the ground in Chicago, a dead hand pointing down Adams Street; also know as Route 66, a road of many names. And now of many deaths. A silent caravan of cars, dozens of them, drives down, that road, each passenger bearing a photograph, but none of them the same. They are the parents of missing children, some recently disappeared, some gone a decade or more-all brought together by word that children’s grave sites are being discovered along the Mother Road. Kathy Mallory drives with them. The child she seeks, though, is not like the others. It is herself-the feral child adopted off the streets, her father a blank, her mother dead and full of mysteries. During the next few extraordinary days, Mallory will find herself hunting a killer like none she has ever known, and will undergo a series of revelations not only of stunning intensity—but stunning effect. Twelve years ago, reviewing Carol O’Connell’s first novel in The New York Times Book Review, Andrew Vachss wrote, “When a first novel evolves into a series, it usually proves to be the best or the worst of all the books that follow. My guess is that Mallory’s Oracle, while powerful, will not prove to be this series’ pinnacle. And given the book’s excellence, the pinnacle promises to be a high one indeed.” And so it is—because this is it. Find Me is an extraordinary novel of love, loss death, and redemption by the writer who "raises the standard for psychological thrillers" (Chicago Tribune), "conjures up a world of almost Faulknerian richness and complexity" (People), and "masterfully creates a complex, stunningly unique protagonist who not only commands our attention, but stimulates our imagination” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherListen & Live Audio
    Release dateApr 8, 2024
    ISBN9781593163662
    Find Me: A Mallory Novel

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    • 5/5
      Kathy Mallory will always be my favorite character of all time. This book was extra special because of the ending.
    • 5/5
      Find Me is a remarkable accomplishment. I listened to it in less than two days, and that included rewinding numerous sections to make sure I was following the plot.

      Find Me is sprawling, with a cast of thousands, but not one face is blank. It was written by someone with a great story to tell, not with a book to finish.

      Appalling crimes by despicable villains - some of the good guys are bad guys and some of the bad guys are good guys. Small acts of deep love, and - dare I say it? - of humanity in its finest sense.

      No scene is dismissed as unimportant, because if it didn't matter, why would I bother to write it?

      Find Me is brilliant, messy, confusing, infuriating, crushing and uplifting. Just like life.

      Don't miss this read. My first act after finishing it was to order four more by this author.
    • 4/5
      Charles, Riker and Mallory travel the remnants of an American icon, Route 66, the highway that runs south from Chicago and crosses the nation. As usual, Mallory is a step or three ahead of the other cops and amateurs on the trail of a serial killer. And, as usual, Mallory has her own reasons for picking this particular crime to solve. Her journey through history will mean more to you if you've read the previous Mallory novels.
    • 5/5
      Dynamic suspense
    • 4/5
      I've been working my way through the entire Kathy Mallory series after a recommendation here on LT, and have to admit that I enjoy them because the characters are so interesting; the mysteries to me are secondary. That said, I am getting a little tired of stories that open somewhere in the middle with characters gradually dropping details throughout the book to flesh out the essential background- it is very frustrating feeling like everyone else knows something you don't (and I don't mean in terms of the clues to solve the mystery, I mean like why Mallory is on Route 66 in a new car being tracked by her partner in the opening paragraphs). Perhaps if I wasn't reading them all so close together, this annoying characteristic of these novels wouldn't be so obvious, but I am so it is.Still, this is a complex and layered mystery that reveals a lot of interesting details about Mallory's past that help inform her current behaviors, and hold out a hope that there might be shifts coming in her psyche as some old wounds are healed. In the end, I was satisfied with the story and the character development, but all through the read, I was battling irritation at the piecemeal revelation of crucial facts. 3.5 stars.
    • 5/5
      I love all the Mallory novels, although I assume the series is over now. They start out as such deceptively simple mysteries, but are like the book version of onions - always more layers to uncover to the story. Just excellent books!
    • 5/5
      This last in the Mallory series by Carol O'Connell gets 4 1/2 (out of 5) stars. It's an excellently woven story that keeps you engaged and on your toes the entire time. O'Connell is an expert at creating minor characters that are so interesting, rich, and flawed that you become keenly aware of your own humanity when you want to champion them or knee them in the groin. Like Stone Angel, this book is a foray into Kathy Mallory's past. Here we are given, piece by piece, more information on how Kathy Mallory came into being, although some questions, rightly so, remain unanswered. We get to see glimpses of Mallory's humanity as she struggles to hold herself together while retracing letters from her long lost father, as he retraced a Route 66 that exists only as a ghost 25 years later. At the same time, Mallory is also tracking a serial killer who buried his victims along the same highway. Up until the very end, we're left wondering if this Route 66 serial killer is the same person who wrote those long lost letters, and if so, will Mallory destroy the writer of those letters... her father. It's a delicious book, one that should be savored, not rushed through.
    • 4/5
      This is an enjoyable, engrossing book which has Mallory, Charles & Riker trying to solve a series of murders which occur along the old Route 66. As always, the story is multi-layered and complex, with lots of twists and turns that keep the reader guessing until the end. This story is the eighth in the Mallory series.The Mallory series by Carol O'Connell is 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, her adopted father's partner. The relationships that develop between these characters as they solve crimes together are the focus of the series. Excellent.
    • 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. This may be the last of the series.. the end of the book had a kind of final feel to it, and it's been three years now and no sign of another! I'm looking forward to going back and re-reading all of her Kathleen Mallory stories. They are exceptional.
    • 4/5
      The best with Stone Angel a near second.
    • 5/5
      NYPD detective Kathy Mallory has stopped turning up for work and there is a body on the floor of the front room of her apartment. Even Riker, her partner, knows only that Mallory appears to be on the run, travelling west from New York, somewhere on what used to be Route 66. More alarming than the corpse on the floor is the massive list of telephone numbers on the wall of the den. They have lines through them, as if Mallory has been crossing them off. And then 800 miles away, in Chicago, a second corpse has been found. Heavy rain is destroying the scene of crime, washing the evidence away. The body is laid out with its arm pointing down Route 80, saying "Follow Me". And then Mallory turns up at the scene of the crime.Mallory appears to be following a moving caravan of vehicles travelling the Mother Road, Main Street USA, variously known as Route 66, Route 80, and the I-55. Leading them is psychiatrist Paul Magritte, almost like a patriarch leading a lost tribe, except that the cars contain parents of missing children. These people have been gathered from Magritte’s therapy patients and from internet groups. At each point where the caravan stops the parents post pictures of the lost children. As the caravan gathers media attention, so it also attracts more parents. FBI agents join it as do state troopers and local policemen. Old burials of tiny skeletons are discovered along the roadside, and some of the parents are murdered. Mallory is following an agenda of her own: a wad of letters written by the father she never knew as he too followed Route 66. The quest to find missing children, to apprehend a serial killer, blurs with Mallory’s own quest to find her father.I need to confess first up that I have read only a couple of earlier titles in O’Connell’s Mallory series. This is #9, and while I knew some of the background about Kathy Mallory, found when she was 6 years old in New York’s Grand Central Station, and fostered by NYPD’s Lou Markowitz, those who have read the series will have more knowledge about the central characters than I did. Trying to piece the book together was rather like a jigsaw begun at the four corners without a clear picture of what the middle would look like. Possibly a less determined reader would have given up, but with my focus on the holy grail of this review, I journeyed on. Things got better in the second half of the book, there were aha! moments, little questions posed to which we needed answers, and then the resolution arrived.Standing back now, I can appreciate the complexity of what O’Connell has done in SHARK MUSIC. At times the image of this growing caravan crawling along Main Street, carrying with it so much heartbreak, and so many hopes that would never be realised, was almost surreal. Soemtimes it was evocative of the wagon trains of an earlier era rolling west. Overlaying all is the growing tension of the serial murderer trawling the caravan looking for his next victim. The reader is required to juggle a multitude of threads, sift clues, and even pose their own questions. Don’t expect SHARK MUSIC to be a quick read, it needs time.
    • 5/5
      Find Me, by Carol O'Connell. She's easily my favorite mystery writer because generally you don't figure out the perp before the end of the book. The characters, including the detectives, keep secrets from one another ("Everyone holds back.") so that at the end of the book, at least one of them is just figuring out whodunit. In some cases, at least one character doesn't find out. The main character, Mallory, is a moderately well-behaved sociopath who went from runaway/thief to police detective, thanks to her foster father. I also like that with O'Connell's books you don't have to have read the others in the series. She does a good job of conveying the history and relationships without feeling bludgeoned in each book (if you have read the previous). I like her work enough that she's the only author I'll buy reliably in hardcover.