Carol O'Connell: Mallory's Oracle (USA 1995)

From the Publisher:
Kathleen Mallory was saved from the streets of New York and taken in by a police sargeant when she was ten. Fifteen years later, she too is part of the NYPD and about to embark on the case of her life--finding her father's murderer.

"There may not be enough superlatives to describe O'Connell's book... one of the top reads of the year."--Booklist.

Carol O'Connell: Mallory's Oracle. Jove Books, ISBN: 0515116475 (June, 1995), 329 p., $7.99.

Carol O'Connell: Mallory's Oracle (UK 1995)

From the Publisher:
When Kathleen Mallory was ten she was a street kid and a thief. Then a cop called Markowitz took her home to her wife to civalize her... Now Mallory is in charge of a complex database and a police officer herself, and someone has just murdered the man she considers her father -the only man she has ever loved. More used to the company of computers than people, Mallory descends into the urban nightmare of New York, to hunt down a cold-blooded killer. MALLORY'S ORACLE is a dangerous chase through the city's underworld, down the fibre-optic cables of high-tech computer networks and behind the blinds of genteel Gramercy Park - and an investigation into the chilly heart of it's damaged and elusive heroine.

Carol O'Connell: Mallory's Oracle. Arrow, ISBN: 0099433818 (January, 1995), 314 p., £4.99.

Carol O'Connell: Mallory's Oracle (UK 1994)

From the Publisher:
The body of an elderly woman is discovered in a park in Gramercy Square. She has been killed in broad daylight, but there is not a single witness.

Inspector Louis Markowitz, who commands the Special Crime Section in New York, dies defending another Gramercy Square victim, and Sergeant Kathy Mallory takes up the case. Mallory is a crimes' analyst, a woman who prefers the company of computers to people. Now she must do field work for the first time, hunting humans.

Mallory's motives, however, are very personal. Louis Markowitz rescued her as a child from a life of petty crime on the streets of New York, and adopted her as his daughter. The investigation into a possible serial killer is also an investigation into Mallory's damaged psyche, and into a disturbed and dangerous urban universe.

This is the debut of a remarkable new talent - an author who has created a broodingly atmospheric, psychotic city landscape and a fascinating and original character in her computer genius detective heroine.

Carol O'Connell: Mallory's Oracle. Hutchinson, ISBN: 009178638X (May, 1994), 282 p., £14.99.