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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780778325987
ISBN number: 0778325989
Label: Mira
Manufacturer: Mira
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Page Count: 408
Printing Date: August 01, 2008
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FBI special agent Maggie O'Dell is just starting a vacation when she gets a call from her friend, psychologist Dr. Gwen Patterson. One of Gwen's patients is missing on a trip to Connecticut. Can Maggie look into Joan Begley's disappearance?
At very first Maggie dismisses Gwen's concern. But when the body of a woman is discovered in an abandoned rock quarry in Connecticut, Maggie heads to the small town on 'unofficial' business. Soon the shocking news surfaces that more bodies have been discovered, and Maggie is drawn into a case that confounds both local law enforcement and a seasoned criminal profiler like her.
But where is Joan Begley? Is she in fact the woman discovered buried in the quarry? Or is she the unwilling guest of a killer obsessed with possessing an unimaginable prize from his victims?
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My husband started me on Alex Kava books. I have been hooked ever since. I'm always reading the back few pages for her subsequent book/s. I have been engrossed with the Maggie Odell series. She reminds me so much of myself, it's scary.
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I've just read that title and wonder what do some people like in Kava's novels? A simple story? Gore? Melodrama? "She had a look at his strong legs and surprised she noticed that she liked them." (sorry, I'm not a native speaker and I read it translated to Polish, but that is a fine example of the author's "prose"). If you like other Kava's books you will probably like this one too, but if you didn't go for Thomas Harris, Dean Koontz or Jeffrey Deaver and other master story-tellers: one page of their prose is often more interesting than this entire novel.
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I really enjoyed reading the O'Dell series by Alex Kava. I can't wait until A Necessary Evil comes out. This is a great book, all of them are great reads. If you do read them make sure you read them in order: A Perfect Evil, Split Second, Soul Catcher, At The Stroke of Madness, and coming in February 2006 A Necessary Evil. These are page turning books that you just can't get tired of reading. They were so good, I read all four within a month!
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Like her last book Soulcatcher, this book had an absolutely riveting opening scene (in fact it was reading this at the back of her last book that prompted me to buy it) but having written this Kava appears to think that she has done enough and the rest of the book never matches up to this high standard - the ending just seems to fizzle out and I was left thinking - is that it?
Isn't it about time Maggie was disciplined by her superiors for constantly disobeying common sense guidelines and putting innocent people's lives in danger? In this novel she excels herself by dashing off to rescue a victim from a serial killer taking with her only a mentally confused elderly man, a dead cellphone and NEVER once thinking of making a phone call even to let someone (such as the local sheriff) know where she is going? Never mind that everytime she does this she ends up incapitated, fighting for her own life and unable to do anything to help the victim. I know Kava thinks that Maggie's a free spirit but she's beginning to look more like a congenital idiot as these novels progress. On the plus side Maggie spends less time in angst ridden reflection about her dead father or some or other serial killer - which at least is something ...
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At the Stroke of Madness by Alex Kava is the fourth Maggie O'Dell book. O'Dell, an FBI Special Agent, is just beginning her well-deserved vacation when a good friend, psychologist Dr. Gwen Patterson, asks O'Dell to look into the disappearance of one of her patients who has gone to Connecticut for her grandmother's funeral. Within a day, reports are coming in that the body of a woman has been discovered in an abandoned rock quarry in Connecticut, near the grandmother's hometown.
As O'Dell arrives in Connecticut, more bodies are being discovered in the quarry, and she becomes involved "unofficially" in the investigation of what may be one of the worst serial killing sprees in history. But is the very first body found the woman for whom she seeks, or has something else happened to Gwen Patterson's patient?
Although not as intense as Kava's very first three Maggie O'Dell books, At the Stroke of Madness is still a positive addition to this excellent series.
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