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Damaged by Alex Kava Review

Damaged By Alex Kava
Damaged
The 8th Book in the Maggie O’ Dell series
ISBN13: 978-0-385-53199-3
Hardcover, $24.95

About Damaged From Alex Kava

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 them. But when the crew open this cooler, they’re shocked by what they find: body parts tightly wrapped in plastic.

Though she is putting herself in the projected path of the hurricane, Special Agent Maggie O’Dell is sent to investigate. Eventually, she’s able to trace the torso in the cooler back to a man who mysteriously disappeared weeks earlier after a hurricane hit Port St. Lucie, Florida. Only Port St. Lucie is on the Atlantic side. How did his body end up six hundred miles away in the Gulf of Mexico?

Cliffhanger chapters, behind-the-scenes forensic details, colorful characters, and satisfying twists have become the trademarks of Kava’s psychological thrillers. In Damaged, she ratchets up the suspense a notch by sending Maggie into the eye of an impending monster hurricane to track down a killer.

My Thoughts on Damaged By Alex Kava

I enjoyed this book and it was my first meeting with FBI Agent Maggie O’Dell.  From other reviews this is a little bit more lax than the previous missions that Maggie has been on but I still felt it was a good read.  With my two year old in tow I don’t get huge chunks of time to read anymore and this was was quick read.  It is 250 pages and I was able to have it read in a couple of days with small chunks of time being set aside.
You knew who the killer was from the beginning pretty much but it still left some suspense as to how he was going to be caught.  The book was easy to follow and keep up with which is was nice.  My brain doesn’t have time to try and keep up with plots and stories right now.  I would recommend this book to a friend in an instant!  I am looking forward to reading the first seven books in this series.  Alex Kava was a new author to me entirely and I am glad that I was able to experience one of her novels.  I will put her on my list of authors to keep up with.

Buy It Damaged by Alex Kava

Damaged will be released July 13th, 2010 and can be bought at various retailers including Barnes and Noble and Amazon.

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