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When two little girls disappear from a local school only a few days before Christmas, Rouge Kendall is jolted into action. The last time that two girls disappeared, it marked the beginning of the reign of a madman--the same madman who murdered Rouge's twin sister.

Kathleen Mallory, O'Connell's perennial heroine, returns in this thriller which opens as the jurors in a prominent trial are murdered, one by one. Technically Mallory is not supposed to interfere in a federal case, but she has always been an unorthodox detective--and there are things about this case that come very close to her own life. As she gets more deeply involved, she draws on her street-smart background--but also puts her own life in greater and greater danger.

Almost 60 years ago, young Nedda Winters vanished, assumed kidnapped after most of her wealthy family was murdered with an ice pick. But Nedda Winters has now resurfaced, having used an ice pick to kill an apparent prowler. It's up to Mallory to find the connection between the two incidents. This is the eighth novel starring Mallory, a former thief who applies her less-than-legal skills in her current profession of PI.

In the decaying New England factory town of Quinsigamond, an activist priest meets a grisly death inside his own cathedral. The prime suspect is a demented ex-FBI agent named Speer who is searching for the jammers who have been hijacking local radio airwaves. Detective Hannah Shaw tracks Speer's obsessive quest to Wireless, the funky, retro-radio nightclub and epicenter of the diverse jammer subculture. Here, Detective Shaw and members of Wireless must stop the defrocked agent--or fall prey to a campaign of censorship and violence.

Norah's boyfriend, an investigative reporter, is murdered when he starts his own inquiries into the playground machine-gunning of a teenage unwed mother and her baby.

A boorish and disgruntled businessman is found comatose on his dining room floor the day after his high school reunion, and it's up to Mellingham, Massachusetts, police chief Joe Silva to figure out what happened to him. Silva unwinds a tangled web of marital infidelities, along with far more esoteric secrets involving deadly neurotoxins, on his way to discovering the identity of the attacker.