"The Chalk Girl" by Carol O'Connell is the latest in her mystery series featuring Kathy Mallory. I was happy to hear this book was coming out. After the events in "Find Me", I was afraid Mallory's story was done. The amazing thing O'Connell does is make Mallory the main character without ever having her tell the story. It's always told by the characters around her.
It was a good Mallory book. It was good to have her back in New York and back on the job. One of the drawbacks to the series is that you don't spend much time, if any, with Mallory's internal thought process. And I wanted some, just a hint of what happened after the end of "Find Me" and the beginning of "The Chalk Girl". I enjoyed the conflict between Charles and Mallory, who despite his unrequited love for her, stands up to her several times in this book.
This series is not sweet and light, but it is good. It's a love it leave it kind of deal no middle ground. The book starts with a school field trip in Central Park where we are introduced to a young child named Coco right before a rat swarm. Turns out Coco, in a bloody t-shirt, isn't part of the class. She says "The blood fell from the sky while she was looking for her uncle Red who turned into a tree". There starts a complicated story of murder and revenge. As I said I liked it and am waiting paitently for the next installment. Side note ~ I actually read this back in June of this year, but it was summer and summer is short in Minnesota, so you have to take advantage while it's here.
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