Stone Angel - Carol O'connell

The author of Mallory's Oracle brings back NYPD sergeant Kathleen Mallory, a wild-child-turned-policewoman, possessed of a ferocious intelligence and a unique inner compass of right and wrong. Seventeen years after her mother died there, Mallory returns to a small town in Louisiana, determined to find out who killed the innocent woman and why. NYPD Detective Kathleen Mallory is back--to face her most terrifying obsession--the murder of her own mother...