In Goodnight Sweet Mother, Maggie OโDell and her motherโs road trip takes a chilling and an unexpected detour.
A Breath of Hot Air puts Maggieโs forensic skills to work. While in Pensacola, Florida, for another investigation sheโs awakened in the middle of the night when a man is found dead in the same hotel.
Cold Metal Night brings Maggie back together with Nick Morrelli (A Perfect Evil) to chase a cold-blooded killer whoโs targeting homeless people.
Electric Blue drops Maggie and her partner, R.J. Tully, into a dangerous storm on the Gulf of Mexico to help track a United States senatorโs family that has gone missing.
And finally, in After Dark, corporate executive, Madeline Kramer hopes to escape for a much needed vacation. All she wants is the quiet and solitude the cabin in the woods promises. Be careful what you ask for.
Also included: A list of where these Maggie OโDell short works fit chronologically in the series. Although they can be read and enjoyed individually, some were meant to be companion pieces to various novels in the series.
***NOTE: All of these short works have been previously published in separate anthologies or as a larger ebook. This is the first time they are being offered all together in one collection.
PRAISE FOR ALEX KAVA:
โAlex Kava is a master. Her heroine, Special Agent Maggie OโDell is one of the classic characters of the thriller genre.โ โ Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author
โKavaโs short scenes with cliffhanger endings are spot on.โ โ The Boston Globe
โMaggie, who handles forensic evidence with ease can give Patricia Cornwellโs Kay Scarpetta a run for her money.โ โ Booklist
"OโDell could be Reacherโs long-lost twin." โ Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author
โTwisted plots, shocking characters, breakneck pacing. Guaranteed to keep you up all night.โ โ Lisa Gardner, New York Times bestselling author
โTension, suspense, masterful twists . . . Alex Kavaโs writing has it all.โ -- Crimespace
โA pro, Kava writes as coolly and adroitly as O'Dell profiles. Supremely paced.โ โ The Lincoln Journal Star
โThe writing is taut and polished, and the plot is well-woven. The forensic background is meticulously researched.โ -- Crime Fiction Lover (UK)
ALEX KAVA is a New York Times, USA Today and Amazon bestselling author of twenty-one novels including the award-winning FBI Profiler Maggie OโDell series and the critically acclaimed and now award-winning Ryder Creed K-9 Mystery series. LOST CREED won the 2019 Nebraska Book Award. Her novel Stranded was awarded both a Florida Book Award and the Nebraska Book Award. One False Move was chosen for the 2006 One Book One Nebraska and her political thriller, Whitewash, was one of January Magazineโs best thrillers of the year. Published in over thirty-four countries, Kavaโs novels have made the bestseller lists in the UK, Australia, Germany, Japan, Italy, and Poland.
"A TRAILBLAZER IN THE K-9 FICTION GENRE, Kava creates a โdynamic between Ryder and his canines that reveals a world rarely shared in fiction and perhaps nowhere presented more effectively than in this series.โ โPhil Jason, Florida Weekly
"It's impossible not to care about and root for the human and canine heroes in Kava's series." โTracie Holtcher, The Radio Pet Lady Network โข
She is a member of the Nebraska Writers Guild and is a founding member of International Thriller Writers. Kava divides her time between Omaha, Nebraska and Pensacola, Florida with her pack of of westies.