New York Times bestselling author Alex Kava joins the Doubleday list with her best novel yet.
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Jun 20, 2011
Schnaucl
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There was very little mystery for a mystery novel. Near the beginning we start getting chapters from the POV of the killer (as well as chapters from the POV of other major characters) so you never wonder who the killer is. (If I recall, the chapters start just after O'Dell learns there is a case).
<spoiler>I'm not really sure what the mystery is even supposed to be. How the protagonists will figure it out?
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<spoiler>I'm not really sure what the mystery is even supposed to be. How the protagonists will figure it out?
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May 29, 2011
Sarah
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Damaged is the eighth book in bestselling Alex Kava's series featuring FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell.
One of the shortest novels by Kava to date, Damaged opens off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, where a water-rescue team is retrieving a mysterious cooler found to be filled with random body parts wrapped in cellophane. Maggie O'Dell is called to the scene to investigate despite a powerful hurricane approaching the Gulf coast faster by the hour. Investigating his own isolated case just a More...
One of the shortest novels by Kava to date, Damaged opens off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, where a water-rescue team is retrieving a mysterious cooler found to be filled with random body parts wrapped in cellophane. Maggie O'Dell is called to the scene to investigate despite a powerful hurricane approaching the Gulf coast faster by the hour. Investigating his own isolated case just a More...
Feb 13, 2011
Michael
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A Coast Guard helicopter finds a fisherman's cooler bobbing in the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast. Thinking that they would find drugs, officials are startled to find body parts.
A massive hurricane is heading toward Florida and Charlie Wurth of the homeland security, asks FBI profiler, Maggie O'Dell for help in the case. However, they have to get to Florida before the storm.
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A massive hurricane is heading toward Florida and Charlie Wurth of the homeland security, asks FBI profiler, Maggie O'Dell for help in the case. However, they have to get to Florida before the storm.
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Jan 26, 2011
Paul
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A category 5 hurricane is bearing down on Pensacola Beach.
A Coast Guard helicoper has been dispatched to investigate a large fish cooler floating in the Gulf. Elizabeth Bailey, a rescue swim diver for the Coast Guard, is lowered down to bring the cooler up. Their first thoughts were that it may contain drugs, but to their surprise the cooler is full of severed body parts.
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A Coast Guard helicoper has been dispatched to investigate a large fish cooler floating in the Gulf. Elizabeth Bailey, a rescue swim diver for the Coast Guard, is lowered down to bring the cooler up. Their first thoughts were that it may contain drugs, but to their surprise the cooler is full of severed body parts.
Criminal profiler, Maggie O'Dell, is called in to investigate. Her investigation is hampered by the More...
Oct 13, 2010
Pamela
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This is the 7th in Alex Kava's Maggie O'Dell series. In this outing, FBI Agent O'Dell is called in when a Coast Guard Search and Rescue team finds a large cooler floating in the Gulf of Mexico. The thinking is that a ship was perhaps disabled or, worse, sinking. But the only thing found is the cooler. Contrary to protocol, team members open the cooler to find neatly wrapped body parts. O'Dell is told to find out what happened. In the meantime, there is a Category 5 hurricane heading toward Flori
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Sep 22, 2010
Cheryl
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Hurricane Katrina sure did a number off the Gulf of Pensacola Bay in Florida. The Coast Guard is nearly finished cleaning up the mess. Elizabeth is part of the Coast Guard team. She retrieves a cooler but this cooler isn’t packing lunch meat. Inside the cooler are body parts.
Maggie O’Dell is called out to the scene to investigate the murder. Tracking down a killer is one thing but tracking down a killer before a hurricane hits is another thing.
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Maggie O’Dell is called out to the scene to investigate the murder. Tracking down a killer is one thing but tracking down a killer before a hurricane hits is another thing.
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Sep 06, 2010
Kristin
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This is the 3rd book in the series that I've read, having read books #6 and #7 earlier this year. I would rank it ahead of 'Black Friday' but behind 'Exposed'.
You don't have to read the others to be able to follow the plot, in fact, I think Kava reveals a little much about previous books than I would have liked, had I not read them already. I found this book to be extremely enjoyable and a gret read for a lazy late summer afternoon during hurricane season, even though I'm in PA and far rem More...
You don't have to read the others to be able to follow the plot, in fact, I think Kava reveals a little much about previous books than I would have liked, had I not read them already. I found this book to be extremely enjoyable and a gret read for a lazy late summer afternoon during hurricane season, even though I'm in PA and far rem More...
Jun 28, 2010
Gaby
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Damaged is the 8th novel in the series of Maggie O'Dell is an FBI profiler. Maggie has proven herself and become the "go to person" for the complex serial killer cases. In Damaged, O'Dell is mentally and psychologically exhausted from her latest case, but she's tough and unwilling to give an unsympathetic boss leverage over her. Maggie has learned to keep her demons to herself. When a cooler filled with body parts is found floating in Florida, her boss sends her down to assist. Ma More...
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Jun 08, 2010
Nancy
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The story is set in the Gulf of Mexico as a hurricane is heading towards the panhandle. The protagonist, Maggie O'Dell, takes a near back seat to this story, as a couple of other character emerge.
Liz is a U.S. Coast Guard swimmer. She is dropped out of helicopters to rescue people (and the occasional dog or two) and retrieve odd items found floating around the ocean - like a very large, very specialized cooler containing three feet, a torso, and a hand. Kind of gruesome. This brings More...
Liz is a U.S. Coast Guard swimmer. She is dropped out of helicopters to rescue people (and the occasional dog or two) and retrieve odd items found floating around the ocean - like a very large, very specialized cooler containing three feet, a torso, and a hand. Kind of gruesome. This brings More...
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Jul 08, 2010
Alayne
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Maggie O’Dell can’t ever relax. As an FBI profiler for murder cases, she’s frequently in the line of fire (and other unpleasant things) when she’s trying to do her job. Barely off a case where she’s blamed for not predicting the killer would return to his hide-out, she’s rushed off to Pensacola, Florida where a cooler full of body parts is found floating in the ocean. It would seem an easy task, if it weren’t for the Category 4 hurricane heading her way.
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Jun 02, 2011
Lisa
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I received this book on goodreads giveaway.
This is book #8 about Maggie O'Dell. Set in pre-hurricane Pensacola Beach, Florida, the story revolves around 3 main characters and how each have a piece of a puzzle that would solve a murder or bring down a serial killer that preys on people during hurricanes. Liz Bailey, a rescue swimmer, encounters a cooler filled with human body parts.Maggie O' Dell, an FBI agent, is brought in to lead an investigation of these body parts. Benjamin Bl More...
This is book #8 about Maggie O'Dell. Set in pre-hurricane Pensacola Beach, Florida, the story revolves around 3 main characters and how each have a piece of a puzzle that would solve a murder or bring down a serial killer that preys on people during hurricanes. Liz Bailey, a rescue swimmer, encounters a cooler filled with human body parts.Maggie O' Dell, an FBI agent, is brought in to lead an investigation of these body parts. Benjamin Bl More...
Jun 07, 2011
Sheila
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I've read all her books and this one doesn't disappoint. A quick read. Maggie O'Dell is asked to go to Florida to work with the Homeland Security. A cooler has been found off the shore of the coast but the contents reveal body parts. A rescue swimmer, a female, Liz is another main character. She is working with an all male crew who have not completely accepted her into their group. Apparently medical companies ask for body parts for surgeons to practice on using new medical instruments but are t
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Jun 03, 2011
Amandaj
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Jun 11, 2011
Jenny
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This is the first Alex Kava novel I have read. I was able to read the book in its entirety on a raining day. I liked that the book was fast paced and still entertaining.
The characters were well written and I look forward to reading another story featuring Maggie O'Dell. Even though I had not read any previous books with the Maggie O'Dell character, I could still enjoy this book and feel like I understood O'Dell and her past. Kava did a good job giving background into O'Dell without rui More...
The characters were well written and I look forward to reading another story featuring Maggie O'Dell. Even though I had not read any previous books with the Maggie O'Dell character, I could still enjoy this book and feel like I understood O'Dell and her past. Kava did a good job giving background into O'Dell without rui More...
Jan 28, 2011
Monica
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This was my ER win from July and I have to say the wait was worth it. I don't know if it was because I just read a very long and difficult book on the Tudor period or if I just needed a nice light read.
Damaged is a novel about Maggie O'Dell, a criminal profiler for the FBI. I have watched the show Criminal Minds and know that I really enjoy the intricacies of the thought processes of criminals and how the profiler is able to conclude those thoughts.
Maggie is recruited by More...
Damaged is a novel about Maggie O'Dell, a criminal profiler for the FBI. I have watched the show Criminal Minds and know that I really enjoy the intricacies of the thought processes of criminals and how the profiler is able to conclude those thoughts.
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Oct 02, 2011
Tabi34
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Maggie O'Dell doesn't exactly get along with her new boss and he doesn't exactly like her or so it seems so when she is needed in Florida where body parts are found floating in the Gulf Coast - she's sent - no worries about the Cat 5 hurricane heading her way. Meanwhile her friend Col Benjamin Platt also ends up in Florida to assist when the doctors at a military hospital are baffled by a slew of unexplainable sick soldiers - many who succomb to their illnesses. Of course, the two mysteries inte
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Jun 10, 2011
Pauline
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The general plot of this book is that Maggie O'Dell receives a cooler full of body parts. She is sent to investigate and there is a hurricane coming. Alongside that, there is a minor side story of an unknown infectious disease that is killing soldiers after they have been operated on.
This entire book was very underwhelming. It is marketed as thriller, but five chapters in I already knew how the book was going to end (not a good sign). The story line w More...
The general plot of this book is that Maggie O'Dell receives a cooler full of body parts. She is sent to investigate and there is a hurricane coming. Alongside that, there is a minor side story of an unknown infectious disease that is killing soldiers after they have been operated on.
This entire book was very underwhelming. It is marketed as thriller, but five chapters in I already knew how the book was going to end (not a good sign). The story line w More...
Feb 07, 2011
Melissa
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This is book #8 in Kava's Maggie O'Dell series. It's just like me to start with the last book in a series. I don't feel I can review the series fairly based on book #8, but I will say that this story over all was weak and the only reason I gave it two stars is because it's set in Pensacola, FL which is a place I know well. Over all I had the plot and the killer figured out in the first few pages of the novel. I saw this book on the shelf at my library and picked it up solely based on the blurb f
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Jun 24, 2010
Julie
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This is my first time meeting Maggie O'Dell. I want to meet her again. This means picking up the other Maggie O'Dell novels, Black Friday and Exposed. It will be a pleasure to do so.
A hurricane is heading towards Pensacola, Florida ....
The book starts with Liz Bailey having just joined a new Coast Guard team as their rescue swimmer in Pensacola. Although she has lived through New Orleans rescues in the aftermath of Katrina, she's now in the position of having to prove her More...
A hurricane is heading towards Pensacola, Florida ....
The book starts with Liz Bailey having just joined a new Coast Guard team as their rescue swimmer in Pensacola. Although she has lived through New Orleans rescues in the aftermath of Katrina, she's now in the position of having to prove her More...
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Aug 23, 2011
Sharon
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I received this book through the First Reads give-away a few months ago and just got around to reading it. I had high hopes for this series but I don't think I'll be bothering with the other Maggie O'Dell mysteries. Maggie is a bit player in her own book and did very little to solve the case of the found body parts. Some characters were mentioned toward the beginning but never heard from again. And the ending was so abrupt I thought I was missing a few pages. Seems pretty sloppy to me.
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Jun 10, 2011
Diane
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I would say this is a well written mystery suspense story. I have read others by this author and enjoyed them. I'm not sure this is as good as some of her other books, but did enjoy it. A good read for a laze day at the beach. I would say give it a 3-1/2 but gave it a 4
It opens on the gulf o Mexico off Florida's cost and what was thought to be cooler with drugs become a surprise for the cost gurards. It is a cooler with body parts.
We find a FBI pro-filer and a homeland se More...
It opens on the gulf o Mexico off Florida's cost and what was thought to be cooler with drugs become a surprise for the cost gurards. It is a cooler with body parts.
We find a FBI pro-filer and a homeland se More...
Jan 16, 2012
Katherine
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Number 8 in Alex Kava's Maggie O'Dell series. Special Agent Maggie O'Dell goes to Pensacola Beach to investigate body parts that were found in a cooler by the Coast Guard. Col. Benjamin Platt is in Pensacola to deal with a nasty virus that is killing recovering soldiers. And, by the way, a Cat 5 hurricane is bearing down on the Florida Panhandle, stretching local resources. O'Dell is working with the Coast Guard rescue swimmer who discovered the body parts to figure out where they came from
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Aug 04, 2010
Bill
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I enjoyed the plot which deals with the Coast Guard finding body parts floating off Pensacola, Florida, the anticipation of a Category 5 hurricane coming ashore directly over the city (I live in a state prone to hurricanes so I can identify), and an unusual series of deaths among soldiers returning from Iraq and Afganistan. All of my favorite characters, especially the fearless Maggie O'Dell (actually, not so fearless this time, are back. Some well written new characters add to the story and I h
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Aug 20, 2011
Gretchen
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This is an entertaining novel about a FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell who goes to Pensacola, Fl right before a hurricane is about to hit the area because some body parts were found in a cooler floating in the water. This leads her to hunt for the killer who is at large and still targeting people. It was a very fast read and really moved along. I liked the characters in the book. However, there really was not any big twists in the plt. It was pretty straightforward, and I found myself wishing the conf
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Jun 02, 2011
Mirek
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I think this was an excellent book. It was filled with topical references and had a really great creep factor. I don't want to spoil the book, but it featured a premise that is quite scary and something I find possible. After Katrina, most of us can appreciate the fear that horrific weather can add to any situation. I've read most of the Maggie O'Dell books and this might be my favorite.
I would definitely recommend this to others and will pass my copy along to my brother. I do look More...
I would definitely recommend this to others and will pass my copy along to my brother. I do look More...
Jun 24, 2010
Kelly
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This is the latest entry in the Maggie O'Dell series, but you don't need to have read any of the othersto follow this one. (And I know that's true, because I haven't read any others.)
In this one, the main plot is about a serial killer in Florida who is dismembering people. This came to light after a cooler filled with hands (three), feet and a torso was found. Maggie's dispatched to investigate--except there's a hurricane coming.
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In this one, the main plot is about a serial killer in Florida who is dismembering people. This came to light after a cooler filled with hands (three), feet and a torso was found. Maggie's dispatched to investigate--except there's a hurricane coming.
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Jul 05, 2011
Cupcakencorset
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Book 8 in the Maggie O’Dell series begins with some seemingly unrelated problems: an ice chest with wrapped and severed body parts discovered floating off the Pensacola Beach coast, an unknown infection killing US soldiers who’ve suffered limb loss at war, and a category 4 hurricane bearing down on the Florida panhandle. The first problem is Maggie’s, the second is her almost-love-interest’s (Benjamin Platt’s), and the third is everyone’s. Over the three days that the main storyline covers, the
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Jun 08, 2011
Karen
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This was a Goodreads sweepstakes win for me and was an enjoyable read. Interesting plot of people disappearing during hurricane season in the Gulf. It was an interesting read on how it all came together with Maggie Odell investigation. The funeral home story line really added a lot to the story, and made it seem all so believable, and that this could really be going on for real. I will be sharing this book with others as I felt I was kept quite engaged in the story throughout the entire book
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Jul 08, 2011
Jacque
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This book was very interesting. It is a mystery. As it starts Maggie has just come back from a case where the bad guy was shot with her close by so she is pulling stuff off of herself. When she gets done showering, she is called by a friend wanting her to go to Florida to look at the parts to her next case. Maggie is a profiler.
When they get to Florida, a major hurricane is getting ready to hit. Maggie goes to the sheriff’s office to see the cooler where the body parts were found. Th More...
When they get to Florida, a major hurricane is getting ready to hit. Maggie goes to the sheriff’s office to see the cooler where the body parts were found. Th More...
Jun 22, 2011
Kjersti
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I found this book hard to put down, but at the same time it is kind of disappointing that there is not really much real suspense. The main suspense ends up being related to the hurricane coming and sort of racing against the clock for the main character to put the pieces together that the reader should have absolutely no problem doing way before the main character due to how the novel is jumps between perspectives.
Overall I did like the book and everytime I picked it up I ended up rea More...
Overall I did like the book and everytime I picked it up I ended up rea More...
