The reviews called it a "play to die for" after the woman was found dead in the front row. It didn't seem so funny the next night, when another body was found, this time the playwright's, his throat slashed.
Detective Kathy Mallory takes over, but no matter what she asks, no one seems to be giving her a straight answer. The only person, if "person" is the right word, who seems to be clear is the ghostwriter. Every night, an unseen backstage hand chalks up line changes and messages on a blackboard. And the ghostwriter is now writing Mallory into the play itself, a play about a long-ago massacre that may not be at all fictional. "Mallory," the blackboard reads. "Tonight's the night. Nothing personal."
If Mallory can't find out who's responsible, heads will roll. Unfortunately, one of them may be her own.
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“Morbid, macabre, and mordant—adjectives that can be applied to the plot, the prose, and the humor of this dazzling 11th novel in the series.”
— Publishers Weekly
“Fans won’t want to miss another solid mystery from O’Connell.”
— Library Journal“Mallory fans won’t be disappointed.”
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Carol O’Connell is the author of a number of popular crime novels featuring NYPD Detective Kathy Mallory. Some of her others books include The Judas Child, Winter House, Bone By Bone, Shell Game, and The Chalk Girl, which was published in January of 2012.
Barbara Rosenblat, one of the most awarded narrators in the business, was selected by AudioFile magazine as one of the Golden Voices of the Twentieth Century. She has received the prestigious Audie Award multiple times and has earned more than fifty AudioFile Earphones Awards. She has also appeared in film, television, and theater, both in London’s West End and on Broadway.