Carol O'Connell: Judas Child (UK 2015)

From the Publisher:
A taut and menacing standalone novel from New York Times bestselling author Carol O'Connell.
Sadie Green's purple bicycle was found abandoned at the bus stop. Then her friend, Gwen, disappeared, which led the police to propose a runaway theory to the press.

But State Police Investigator Rouge Kendall wasn't convinced.

On a barstool in Dame's tavern, where Kendall spent a little too much time, he remembered his own mother, begging for the life of his twin sister, Susan. That was fifteen years ago. And a man had been imprisioned for that murder - a priest, barely in his twenties. Father Paul Marie continued to proclaim his innocence.

And current events might prove that he was telling the truth, that someone else might be responsible for all three crimes...

Carol O'Connell: Judas Child. How much blood is enough? Headline, ISBN: 9781472212818 (March, 2015), 416 p., £8.99.

Carol O'Connell: Judas Child (USA 2010)

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The disappearance of two children from a New York suburb is more than a mystery to Detective Rouge Kendall. It's an omen of something terrifying to come. He's lived this nightmare before...

Carol O'Connell: Judas Child. Berkley Books, ISBN: 9780425238073 (June, 2010), 432 p., $7.99.

Carol O'Connell: Judas Child (UK 1999)

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Sadie's purple bike was found abandoned at the bus stop. Then her friend disappeared, which led the police to propose a runaway theory to the press. But State Police Investigator Rouge Kendall wasn't convinced, thinking back 15 years to the imprisonment of Father Paul Marie for a similar crime.

Carol O'Connell: Judas Child. Arrow, ISBN: 0099244527 (October, 1999), 410 p., £5.99.

Carol O'Connell: Judas Child (USA 1999)

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The disappearance of two children from a New York suburb is more than a mystery to Detective Rouge Kendall. It's an omen of something terrifying to come. He's lived this nightmare before...

Carol O'Connell: Judas Child. Jove Books, ISBN: 0515125490 (August, 1999), 420 p., $7.99.

Carol O'Connell: Judas Child (UK 1999)

From the Publisher:
With her first novel, Mallory's Oracle, Carol O'Connell revealed herself to be an extraordinary and original talent. Now her fifth novel Judas Child - a work of hypnotic intensity - is sure to bring her a whole new audience.

Sadie Green's purple bicycle was found abandoned at the bus stop. Then her friend, Gwen, disappeared, which led the police to propose a runaway theory to the press.

But State Police Investigator Rouge Kendall wasn't convinced. On a barstool in Dame's Tavern, where Kendall spent a little too much time, he remembered his own mother, begging for the life of his twin sister, Susan.

That was fifteen years ago. And a man had been imprisoned for that murder - a priest, barely in his twenties.

Father Paul Marie continued to proclaim his innocence. And current events might prove that he was telling the truth, that someone else might be responsible for all three crimes...

Taut, menacing, intensely felt, Carol O'Connell's fifth novel reveals a total mastery of her craft.

Carol O'Connell: Judas Child. Hutchinson, ISBN: 009180194X (January, 1999), 410 p., £10.00.

Carol O'Connell: Judas Child (USA 1998)

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Carol O'Connell has been consistently praised as a gifted storyteller (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), the author of stylishly innovative (San Francisco Chronicle), immensely affecting (Miami Herald) novels with an irresistible narrative force (Publishers Weekly). Now, she gives us a stunning new creation.

It is three days before Christmas, and two young girls have disappeared from the local academy. This hasn't happened for fifteen years, since Rouge Kendall's twin sister was murdered. The killer was found, but now Rouge, twenty-five and a policeman, is forced to wonder: was he really the one? Also wondering is a former classmate named Ali Cray, a forensic psychologist with scars of her own. The pattern is the same, she says: a child called out to meet a friend. The friend is the bait, the judas child, and is quickly killed. But the primary victim lives longer... until Christmas Day.

Rouge doesn't want to hear this. He's spent the last fifteen years trying to avoid the memories: drinking alone, laying low, washing out of school and a promising first career. Now he might abandon law enforcement, too -- but something won't let him, not yet. A little girl has haunted his dreams all these years -- and he has three days finally to put her to rest.

Filled with the rich prose, resonant characters, and knife-edge suspense that have won the author so many fans, Judas Child is Carol O'Connell's most powerful novel yet.

Carol O'Connell: Judas Child. Putnam's, ISBN: 0399143807 (June, 1998), 340 p., $24.95.