Carol O'Connell
Carol O'Connell (born May 26, 1947, in New York) is an author of crime fiction, including a series of a dozen mysteries featuring a sociopathic but gifted detective, Kathy Mallory, of the New York Police Department (NYPD). After O'Connell earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from Arizona State University, she embarked on a career as an artist, writing fiction "in the closet" as a hobby. She grew more interested in writing fiction than in her art career.
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After initially having the manuscript for her first book, Mallory's Oracle, turned down by American publishers, she sold publication rights to British publisher, Hutchinson, with rights auctioned to European publishers. It next was acquired for the U.S. and Canadian markets by Putnam in an $800,000 two-book deal.
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Carol O'Connell (born 1947) is recorded as a “Kriminalschriftstellerin”. Carol O'Connell was born in 1947. According to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, the recorded place of activity of Carol O'Connell is New York, NY.
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- Dictionnaire des littératures policières. Joseph K. 2. 2007. 978-2-910-68645-1.
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