O'Connell, Carol

Policeman Rouge Kindall investigates the disappearance of two young girls three days before Christmas, a case disturbingly similar to the murder of his twin sister many years earlier.

Detective Kathy Mallory faces her most challenging case yet when the jurors from a controversial trial are murdered one by one, leading her on a deadly chase across the nation.

Twenty years after his teenaged younger brother mysteriously disappears into the woods of northern California, former Army investigator Oren returns home for the first time and is horrified when bones he believes belong to his brother are delivered to him.

New York police sergeant Kathleen Mallory sets off a chain reaction of violence when she returns to her small hometown in Louisiana in an attempt to solve the mystery of her mother's murder years earlier.

"The eight-year-old girl appeared in New York' Central Park one day, red-haired, blue-eyed, dirty-faced, smiling widely. She looked perfect, like a porcelain fairy - except for the blood on her shoulders. It fell from the sky, she told the police. It happened while she was looking for her uncle Red, who had turned into a tree. Right, they thought, poor child. Then they found the body in the tree."--back cover.

NYPD sergeant Kathleen Mallory sets off a chain reaction of violence when she returns to her small hometown in Louisiana in an attempt to discover who killed her mother and what happened to her body.

New York City policewoman Kathleen Mallory investigates the murder of a young woman only blocks away from her own home, who was wearing a jacket with the label "Kathleen Mallory.".