Stone Angel (Kathleen Mallory Novels (Audio))

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Summary: Haunting, Powerful, Satisfying- Mallory is irrestible!
Review: ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ Definitely a 5 star ***** read!
~ * ~ This book is thrilling, chilling, totally absorbing!!! Definitely the best of the " Mallory books,
~ * ~ I believe this book is really the best read if you have read the other books in the series ("Killing Critics" etc.). However, I did share the book with some people who were new to Mallory and they said they enjoyed it immensely.
~ * ~ Mallory was taken in at age 12 ?? by an NYPD cop, who found her as a tough street kid, apparently a "throwaway", in earlier novels she is eerily without the type of "consicence" we recognize though we can sympathize with her ruthless pursuit of justice, especially in avenging her foster father's death.
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Now Mallory has returned to what apparently once was "home" the scene of an inexplicable crime- the murder of her mother, a well liked, caring physician.
~ * ~ Mallory tries to refuse any assitance in her quest for justice and vengeance, but eccentric and loveable allies fall in beside her in an elaborate plot to uncover the truth and strike terror into the hearts of the guilty.
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This novel is almost frightening in the way in which the reader becomes a willing participant in the quest for revenge. The author does a wonderful job of first enticing us into the plot and then shifting back to consider whether the quest for vengeance itself is really such a good idea even in the face of the enormity of the crime, as no-one involved can emerge unscathed. Very beautifully done- this one is a keeper.