Black Friday
MIRA Books

Silence.
Smoke.
Then the screaming begins.

As suicide bombers strike at the heart of America, FBI profiler Maggie O’Dell faces the toughest, deadliest case of her career.

Sifting through the debris for answers, O’Dell discovers that worse is yet to come, with more attacks imminent – and the consequences unimaginable.

In less than twenty-four hours O’Dell must figure out what the next target is, and who exactly she is fighting against. Struggling to put the pieces together in time, she realises just what is at stake – and that her own brother may be in the firing line.


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Praise for the author:

“Move over Kathy Reichs, Patricia Cornwell and Karin Slaughter”
Guardian

“Not for the faint of heart.”
Peter Robinson

“Kava’s writing is reminiscent of Patricia Cornwell in her prime.”
Mystery Ink

“Alex Kava’s thriller is a roller coaster ride.”
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Maggie knows dangerous minds—from hauntingly perverse child predators to cunningly twisted serial killers. Now she faces a new opponent from inside an isolation ward. Maggie must find clues to catch the killer—while waiting to see if the lethal strain is already multiplying in her body.

With every new exposure there’s the potential for an epidemic. And Maggie knows she may not live long enough to stop the nightmare scenario becoming a devastating reality.


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A Necessary Evil
 

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Maggie’s involvement becomes personal when she realises a member of her own family has been seduced by Everett’s slick illusions. But the soul catcher wears many faces and the case is nowhere near as simple as it seems…


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At the Stroke of Madness
 

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Special Agent Maggie O’Dell has to dig deeper into her own resources than she ever has done before to catch a killer of unparalleled madness in At the Stroke of Madness.


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