Stone Angel — Carol O'Connell

"NYPD Detective Sgt. Kathleen Mallory return[s] to her tiny Louisiana hometown after almost twenty years to solve the case that has obsessed her since childhood: the murder of her own mother... [O'Connell] conjures up a world of almost Faulknerian richness and complexity... peopled with characters every bit as compelling as those on Mallory's usual Manhattan beat. In Stone Angel, O'Connell's imagination truly takes wing." --People