A Perfect Evil (Maggie O'Dell) - Softcover

Kava, Alex

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551668246 ISBN 13: 9781551668246

Publisher: Mira, 2001

Synopsis

As a deranged killer stalks the terrified community of Platte City, Nebraska, all evidence points to the recently executed Ronald Jeffreys as the culprit, but FBI criminal profiler Maggie O'Dell, along with Sheriff Nick Morelli, soon uncovers evidence that Jeffreys had been convicted and executed for crimes he did not commit and that the real maniacal murderer is still on the loose. Reprint.

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Review:

Nick Morrelli is the Platte City, Nebraska, sheriff who must be smarter than he appears, since there's a framed Harvard law degree hanging on his wall. Not that appearances don't count. The reader is treated to a number of descriptions of his sexy, lady-killer looks and his charismatic effect on even the most hard-bitten woman character in this somewhat muddled, serial-killer thriller. Nick is investigating the kidnap-murders of two young Platte City boys when FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell shows up and all but takes over the investigation. Several years earlier, the former sheriff--Nick's father--capped his own career with the arrest of the last serial killer in the neighborhood, who abducted and tortured three boys in an eerily similar crime spree. When Antonio Morrelli returns from retirement to meddle in the investigation, and when Nick's own sister uses her connections to advance his career, Nick hardly raises an objection. And that's the central weakness of what would otherwise be a good, first effort. --Jane Adams

About the Author:

Alex Kava grew up in rural Nebraska, outside the small town of Silver Creek (pop. 500). She graduated magna cum laude from College of Saint Mary, in Omaha, Nebraska, with a B.A. in Art and English literature and has fifteen years experience in advertising and graphic design.

A Perfect Evil is Kava's first novel. She recently completed the sequel, Split Second, on-sale August 2001. Alex Kava lives in Omaha, Nebraska.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mira
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1551668246
• ISBN 13: 9781551668246
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400