Alex Kava

Alex Kava is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime. She lives in Omaha, Nebraska with her two dogs Miss Molly and Scout.

Black Friday

On the busiest shopping day of the year, idealistic students wade into malls across America carrying concealed devices they believe will cause chaos at the checkouts. But at the nation’s largest shopping center, the results are incendiary – and people lie dead. A white-collar lobby group called Citizens for American Pride takes responsibility for the(…)

Damaged

On Pensacola Beach, the Coast Guard prepares for a Category 5 hurricane that has entered the Gulf of Mexico. When the air crew patrols the waterways, they spot a huge fishing cooler about a mile offshore. Drug traffickers have been known to dump coolers with smuggled product to avoid detection and pay fishermen to retrieve(…)

Hotwire

On a crisp fall evening in western Nebraska, what started as a group of kids filming their drug-fueled party ends in an explosive light show, leaving the victims apparently electrocuted, with odd scorch marks being the only evidence. While Maggie tries to make sense of the different stories, sifting through what is real and what(…)

Fireproof

When a building bursts into flames on a cold winter night in D.C., investigators see a resemblance to a string of recent fires in the area. There is one difference, however: This one has a human casualty. The local team insists they’re looking for a young white male, suffering from an uncontrollable impulse to act(…)

Stranded

When FBI special agent Maggie O’Dell and her partner, Tully, discover the remains of a young women in a highway ditch, the one clue left behind is a map that will send Maggie and Tully on a frantic hunt crisscrossing the country to stop a madman before he kills again. As the body count rises(…)

One False Move

Nebraskan suspense author Kava takes a break from her successful series featuring FBI Special Agent Maggie O’Dell (At the Stroke of Madness; Split Second) with this psychological thriller about the fallout from an abortive bank robbery. The principal players are Jared Barnett, just released by his shady attorney’s machinations from a life sentence for murder;(…)

White Wash

Sabrina Galloway is the top scientist at EcoEnergy, leading the company’s research team to a successful breakthrough in the quest for an alternative fuel. The promise of a cleaner tomorrow and the economic impact on world markets could be staggering. Then she makes an alarming discovery: someone has tampered with the production process, resulting in(…)

A Perfect Evil

Still reeling from effects of her last case, FBI profiler Maggie O’Dell arrives in Platte City, Nebraska determined to help catch a potential copycat kidnapper who murders young boys.

Split Second

After Albert Stucky, a brutal and clever serial killer known as “The Collector,” escapes from prison, he forces FBI profiler Maggie O’Dell, the agent who originally captured him, to play a deadly game when he targets her and everyone associated with her, pushing her to the very edge of sanity.

The Soul Catcher

FBI Special Agent Maggie O’Dell and her partner Tully investigate two cases–the murder of a senator’s daughter in Washington, D.C., and a deadly shootout in Massachusetts, both of which are linked to Reverend Joseph Everett, who is dating Maggie’s mother.

At the Stroke of Madness

In the tomblike silence of an abandoned rock quarry someone is trying to hide their dirty little secret. A secret that reveals the depths of human depravity. A secret that is about to be discovered. FBI Special Agent Maggie O’Dell is just starting a hard-earned vacation when she gets a call from her friend, psychologist(…)

A Necessary Evil

As the killing spree continues unabated, it becomes clear to Maggie O’Dell—the FBI profiler assigned to the case—that more than one perpetrator is responsible. As she begins to drill down into the facts, Maggie discovers a disturbing Internet role-playing game for youths who have been victims of male authority figures—including Catholic priests. With the first(…)

Exposed

Agent Maggie O’Dell and Assistant Director Cunningham believe they’re responding to a threat made at Quantico. Instead they walk into a trap. Before they realize it, they’ve both been exposed to a killer who can strike at anyone, at any time, and no one can predict who might be next.until it’s too late. The killer’s(…)

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