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Crime School by Carol O'Connell
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Crime School (edition 2006)

by Carol O'Connell

Series: Mallory (6)

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New York City policewoman Kathy Mallory investigates the murder of a prostitute named Sparrow, a woman who had taken her in many years ago only to betray her, as part of a crime that seems to mimic one that happened two decades earlier.
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Title:Crime School
Authors:Carol O'Connell
Info:Arrow Books Ltd (2006), Paperback, 528 pages
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This was a well written book. There was a great story line. If you like a suspense, this is the book. ( )
  jeanniea | Apr 26, 2016 |
Crime School is, like Find Me and Dead Famous, a slow starter, but stick with it for a great finish. ( )
  MickMcA | Aug 22, 2013 |
NYPD's most beautiful and ruthless detective investigates a series of hanging attacks on women that a duplicate a twenty-year-old murder. Both Mallory and her partner Riker have a personal interest, for one of the victims is a former junkie-prostitute that mothered Mallory when she was a street urchin. Her friend Charles Butler wants to know why Riker removed a pulp western paperback novel from the woman's crime scene, only to discover that the young Mallory had a reading club among working girls. A rookie being tutored by Mallory and Riker apparently is the basis for the title. Or perhaps it refers to young Mallory's own brutal tutelage on the streets.

A good, solid read.

I have an issue with some of the Mallory novels - Shell Game, Crime School, Winter House. O'Connell always provides two endings to her stories, one to the mystery, the other to the emotional conflicts among her regulars. I have noticed that the latter tends to be more satisfying and resonant than the former. In these stories, especially, she provides a plausible culprit but then has said culprit being bluffed into signing confessions that send him or her to jail for good. I didn't believe this the first time O'Connell used it, in Shell Game. I really don't believe it in this case. On the other hand, I nearly teared up at the last scene, when Mallory came to terms with another part of her past. ( )
  Coach_of_Alva | Jun 2, 2013 |
Of Carol O'Connell's Mallory series that I've read, this and "Stone Angel" have been my faves. Can't put it down. ( )
  Julie_Brock | Apr 12, 2013 |
An outstanding book in an excellent series ( )
  jamespurcell | Dec 7, 2010 |
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High in the sky, apartment windows were smudges of grimy yellow, and this passed for starlight in New York City.
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