The Man Who Cast Two Shadows (Kathleen Mallory, #2)

The Man Who Cast Two Shadows by Carol O'Connell
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Mallory adopts a cat. Since the cat loves Mallory I can't believe she is as bad as the men in her life make her out to be.

Charles is investigating a boy, Justin, who seems to be making objects fly through the air, Step-Mother #3 is terrified of him and his own Mother and Step-Mother #2 meet suspicious ends, but Charles refuses to believe the boy could be behind everything. In an effort to find out what Mallory sees in the boy Charles lies to Edward Slope and discovers that Mallory barely escaped being the victim of a snuff film when she was a child. And that Riker beat one of the men in the film to death, the other had been killed by FBI agents.

Mallory on the other hand is investigating the murder of a woman, that was reported to be her on the news. In an effort to help Mallory Charles reconstructs the woman from her book.

Mallory's plans for the killer go awry when Justin steals her gun. When she realizes her gun is missing she calls Charles and demands he bring her another gun. While Charles is rushing to her side she manages to get a confession from Amanda's killer and well as a confession from Justin by playing them against each other. Charles arrives in time to save Mallory's life and contrary to what Mallory thinks if the gun had been loaded he would have killed Justin for her.

The cat survives the shooting and seems to have a permanent home with Mallory.

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