Harriet Klausner's Review Archive

She plays a psychological game of wits with the town sheriff, who wants s justice for what happened to Mallory's mother, not the cold-blooded revenge Kathy has in mind. After looking for months for his business partner and unrequited love, Charles finally catches up with Kathy, but before he can help her, she breaks out of jail. The jailbreak leaves the sheriff looking foolish as he fears what havoc Mallory will reap in her quest to find a way to break the conspiracy of silence that envelops the town. Little does he know that she has planned her sadistic little scheme down to the last intricate detail. Nor does he realize that before she is through she and the accomplices she enlists in her diabolical plot will come very close to dispensing justice outside the parameters of the law.

STONE ANGEL is an insightful glimpse into the female protagonist's past; a way of learning the forces that turned her into the anti-heroine she has become. Anyone who has not read the earlier books in this series will not fully appreciate how brilliantly the author has developed a sense of caring and liking for a character who is a sociopath. Carol O'Connell is master of characterization and a storyteller par excellence. Harriet Klausner