

Mack still loves Julie like she's his own daughter. Mack is Megan's biological father, and Julie was born from Karen's previous marriage. They are 5-year-old Megan and 17-year-old Julie. Karen works in a museum, and she has two daughters. Karen McCann lives in Santa Monica, California, and her husband Mack McCann is the owner of the McCann construction company. When Doob makes another victim and is again released for lack of evidence, she finds a way to lure him into her house and kill him in self-defense.

In the meantime, tension grows between Karen and her husband Mack, because he finds out she has secretly been taking self-defense classes and has been learning how to use a gun. However, a friend from the support group turns out to be an FBI agent investigating the very vigilante activity Karen is involved in and warns her that she will go to jail for the rest of her life unless it is self-defense. She then seeks help from a group of vigilantes connected to a support group, in order to shoot Doob. Doob, having found out that Karen is following him, threatens to do something to her youngest daughter. When she tries to warn the woman, she is shooed out of the house. She tells the police, but is only warned she must stop following Doob. When the case against Robert Doob, the perpetrator, is dismissed because of a technicality, she starts following him and sees how he checks out his next victim, a woman he delivers groceries to. Johny talks to Malorie about her incredible journey with the characters, the legacy of the series, and what she's looking forward to writing next.Īnd another groundbreaking children's novelist R.J Palacio, author of Wonder, shares her own childhood favourite in The Book I'd Never Lend.Karen McCann's eldest daughter is raped and murdered whilst on the phone with her. Influenced by the unprecedented global events of recent years, the novel is full of twists and turns, as the characters find their way to a new future.

The aptly titled, Endgame, brings the series to a conclusion. In the first Noughts & Crosses novel, Blackman began the story of a deeply forbidden romance between Sephy (a Cross) and Callum (a nought) – a love affair that had repercussions for their families for generations. Malorie Blackman talks to Johny Pitts about the final novel in her hugely successful Noughts and Crosses series.
