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Title: I COULD NOT WARM UP TO THE COLD MALLORY
Review: I work in a mystery bookstore and my co-workers, all of whom are extremely well-read and informed on this genre, raved about this book. By Chapter 2, I was feeling tremendous guilt over how much I was hating this book. The NYPD is a topic very close to my heart and I still didn't care. Kathleen Mallory was so narrowly drawn...O'Connell gave her so few redeeeming qualities that I just didn't care. I simply didn't get it....why we should love her or care about her. Frankly I thought the Louis Markowitz character was much better drawn and he was killed off in the first chapter! I have purposefully avoided the rest of the Mallory series because I was so put off by this book.
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