Killing Critics is the third book in the Kathleen Mallory series written by Carol O'Connell.

[3] Mallory investigates the murder of Dean Starr, an artist killed in the middle of an exhibition.

Mallory and her partner, Sergeant Riker, find links to a double murder that occurred 12 years ago in an art gallery owned by the same man.

Mallory's late father, Markowitz, was on that case and although he got a confession and a conviction, he never for a minute believed that he had the right man.

Killing Critics was first published in 1995 as a limited edition of 85 numbered, marbled, signed copies by Scorpion Press in the UK, before more general publication the following year.