A Perfect Evil (Maggie O'Dell Novels (Paperback))
by Alex Kava
published
2006
(first published 2000)
by Mira
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Mass Market Paperback, 480 pages
isbn
0778322335
(isbn13: 9780778322337)
description
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...more
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I am back on track with my reading after a very busy weekend. I started A perfect Evil before the weekend, which was a dumb thing to do. I have been so busy over the last week I’ve just been able to read a chapter here and there. I had some down time at work last night, so I managed to get the book finished.
I have all the books in this Maggie O’Dell series, sitting on my shelf. I thought it was time I start reading the series. A Perfect Evil is the first in the series. It is also Alex Ka...more
I have all the books in this Maggie O’Dell series, sitting on my shelf. I thought it was time I start reading the series. A Perfect Evil is the first in the series. It is also Alex Ka...more
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Read in March, 2007
I had never heard of Alex Kava but recently I was talking about thrillers with a friend and she was kind enough to offer to lend me this one.
I really enjoyed it in the sense that it was a page turner, fast paced and with an interesting story. It has a female profiler as the main character and I just love to read about profilers and psychological analysis and that sort of thing. I think we ended up not having much in the way of explaining how profilers work but it was interesting nonetheless....more
I really enjoyed it in the sense that it was a page turner, fast paced and with an interesting story. It has a female profiler as the main character and I just love to read about profilers and psychological analysis and that sort of thing. I think we ended up not having much in the way of explaining how profilers work but it was interesting nonetheless....more
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Without giving anything away let me just say that this book didn't have a typical ending. It left the door wide open for another book. This was my first Kava novel and won't be my last. It was well written and a definite page turner. However, I was able to figure out the killer long before the book ended...therefore there was no big reveal at the end of the book. That took a large bite out of the suspense.
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Read in November, 2008
I read this book in about 2 days, I didn't want to put it down. I really like Kava's style and the short chapters that leave you wanting more. I found myself lost in this novel. Great book.
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Read in January, 2003
recommends it for:
Insomniacs
I walked into a bookstore, told the woman that I needed a scary book to keep me awake on the set during late shoots. I told her I didn't enjoy excessive gore, sex, and language. She handed me this book and said "This is perfect for you." I took on a really long night shoot and man did it work! This is expertly written and so creepy! I love the FBI profiler and how she is a strong woman but not the stereotypical butch "woman in a mans world" character that is way too overdone...more
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Read in August, 2008
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I just found it at Dillons.recommends it for: Anyone who enjoys reading crime/mystery novels
Okay, this is a pretty decent read. Alex Kava does a good job of making you feel for the charecters. The main charecter is Maggie O'Dell...one heckuva a woman! This is the first book she wrote with Maggie as the main charecter. I understand there are several more adventures thats been written and I am looking foward to reading them. I would write more, but I don't want to give any of the story away...let me know if you like it when you read it!
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Why do I like this gore so much? So these are the books I read when I have to take a break from girl fluff and more intense books. Though seriously, she writes with such gore and such suspense that I stay up way too late. I freak out my boyfriend. I worry about nightmares, and I'm even more paranoid about priests than I was just after the sex abuse crisis. This chick is good.
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Read in October, 2007
This was an excellent, fast-paced thriller putting the rest of Kava's Maggie O'Dell series on my tbr pile. I like the flaws in the main characters and these continue to allow for their future examination. Very entertaining - the short chapters make it a real page turner and by the end cliffhanger followed cliffhanger...I loved it. 82%
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Read in July, 2008
a great book. a great start to what i hope will be a great series. maggie finds herself in a small town trying to profile a child murderer. what she finds is haunting. this is a real page turner and will keep you guessing till the end. and then the end!!!! it makes you want to hurry and start the next in the series.
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