NYPD sergeant Kathleen Mallory, a wild child turned policewoman, possessed of a ferocious intelligence and a unique inner compass of right and wrong, is about to be sorely tested. Killing Critics begins with a discreet murder - the almost unnoticed death of a hack artist at a gallery opening - but quickly connects with a much more brutal crime - a twelve-year-old double homicide and dismemberment originally investigated by Mallory's now deceased adoptive father, Louis Markowitz. A quick confession ended that case, but as Mallory probes into the new murder, the ghosts of the old will not be still. She finds herself traveling in an intricately connected world of envy, greed, and lethal passions: a place where no relationship is what it seems, and the secrets, very deep and very dark indeed, strike closer and closer to home. By the end, she will come to know the truth - but the truth may be the most dangerous illusion of all.
- ISBN10 0515120863
- ISBN13 9780515120868
- Publish Date 1 July 1997 (first published 18 April 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 March 2014
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
- Imprint Jove Publications
- Format Paperback
- Pages 400
- Language English