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In this thrilling installment of the New York Times bestselling series, Special Agent Maggie O’Dell investigates the death of three teenagers, only to find herself in the middle of a conspiracy involving biological warfare. On a crisp fall evening in western Nebraska, two teenagers are seemingly electrocuted when their drug-fueled party turns into an explosive light show. While Maggie O’Dell tries to make sense of the witnesses’ stories, sifting through what is real and what is hallucination, her friend, Colonel Benjamin Platt, is at the scene of a deadly outbreak that has infected children at a Virginia elementary school. Despite the miles that separate them, the two cases collide when Maggie and Platt uncover a threatening conspiracy that was meant to stay hidden in the remote Midwestern landscape. . .

Special Agent Maggie O''Dell has seen a lot in her career, and amidst the killers, psychos and criminals she has hunted, she''s delved deep into the darkest, most shockingly evil recesses of the human mind. But when a cool box filled with body parts washes up on the shore of Florida''s Pensacola Beach, even Maggie isn''t prepared for what she is about to get into. While across the state, people brace themselves against the onslaught of a hurricane advancing across the Gulf of Mexico, Maggie begins the laborious process of tracking down the cooler''s origins. Tracing the butchered corpse back to a missing persons case weeks earlier, Maggie uncovers the gruesome network of an underground cadaver trade. Little does she know that things are about to take an even darker turn...

On a crisp Autumn evening in western Nebraska, what started as a group of kids filming their drug-fuelled 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 is hallucination, she realises that the surviving teens are being targeted and systematically eliminated. Meanwhile on the East Coast, Army colonel Benjamin Platt is at the scene of a deadly outbreak, desperate to identify the pathogen that has infected children at a Virginia elementary school. Despite the miles that separate them, the two cases collide as Maggie and Platt uncover secrets that were meant to stay hidden...

For decades, tired travellers have stopped at rest areas on America''s epic highways to rest, refuel and get a bite to eat, but little do they know that one man''s rest stop is another''s hunting ground. For years the defenceless, the weary and the stranded have been disappearing along the highways and byways, vanishing without a trace.When FBI special agent Maggie O''Dell and her partner, Tully, discover the remains of a young woman 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 and Maggie races against the clock to unmask the monster who''s terrorising the nation''s highways, she turns for help to a former foe who seems to have an uncanny knack for guessing what the killer''s next move will be. But as she gets closer to finding the killer, it becomes eerily clear that Maggie is the ultimate target.

''O''Dell could be Reacher''s long-lost twin'' LEE CHILDSpecial Agent Maggie O''Dell doesn''t need to set foot at a crime scene to catch a serial killer. From her small Quantico office, she''s profiled criminals using just Polaroids and faxed copies of evidence from homicide detectives across the country.Then comes Albert Stucky . . . and nothing will ever be the same.Stucky is a sadistic madman who places pieces of his victims in takeout containers and leaves them for innocent bystanders to find. He enjoys his twisted games as much as he enjoys the kill. And when Maggie is tasked with profiling his murders, Stucky is only too happy to rise to the challenge:''Let the chase begin.''New York Times bestselling author Alex Kava returns with a heart-stopping new thriller featuring special agent Maggie O''Dell, who will face one of the most terrifying serial killers of her career.''Rip-roaring action that only builds in intensity with every page'' TESS GERRITSEN

A psychopath flies under the radar, moving from city to city, preying on the lost and forgotten. Three investigators - Detective Stacy Killian from the New Orleans P.D., Nashville Homicide Lieutenant Taylor Jackson, and FBI profiler Maggie O''Dell - collaborate to catch the killer. But can they succeed when he has slipped through the grasp of so many others?From three of today''s most acclaimed thriller writers, Slices of Night offers readers a sneak peek into the lives of three very different investigators, in three very different settings, as they hunt for a killer who''s able to disappear into the night.

A massive storm system is unleashing its fury from Illinois to Florida - where it collides with a tropical disturbance and rages up the eastern seaboard. In the midst of the wind, rain and snow, Rockford Homicide Detective M.C. Riggio, FBI profiler Maggie O''Dell, and Nashville Homicide Lieutenant Taylor Jackson find themselves fighting not just the elements, but three diabolical killers ...Rockford, Illinois - A young co-ed''s body is pulled from the Rock River, and Violent Crimes Bureau Detective Mary Catherine ''M.C.'' Riggio and her partner, Kitt Lundgren, quickly learn that things are not always as they appear at first glance. Pensacola, Florida - FBI Agent Maggie O''Dell is about to do something she swore she''d never do again: climb into a helicopter. But a US Senator''s family has gone missing aboard their houseboat, and Maggie and her partner, R.J. Tully, have been dispatched to accompany the rescue crew on their search. Soon, however, there is an even greater danger on board...Washington, D.C. - Metro Nashville Homicide Lieutenant Taylor Jackson has reluctantly agreed to take the place of her fiancé, FBI profiler John Baldwin, as a presenter at the annual Freedom Conference. But when two guests go missing, and one of them is found dead in his room, Taylor discovers an assassin amongst the spies - one with a deadly score to settle.

Ryder Creed and his dogs have been making national headlines after intercepting several major drug stashes being smuggled through Atlanta''s airport. But their newfound celebrity has also garnered some unwanted attention.When Creed and one of his dogs are called in to search a commercial fishing vessel, they discover a secret compartment. But the Colombian cartels'' latest shipment isn''t drugs. This time, its cargo is human. To make matters worse, Creed helps one of the cartel''s drug mules escape - a fourteen-year-old girl who reminds him of his younger sister who disappeared fifteen years ago. Meanwhile, FBI agent Maggie O''Dell is investigating a series of murders - the victims tortured, killed, and dumped in the Potomac River. Maggie suspects they are the work of a cunning and brutal assassin. But by the time she uncovers a hit list with Creed''s name on it, it might be too late...

Most of them were asleep in their beds when the ground gave way. . . . When Ryder Creed responds to a devastating mudslide in North Carolina, he knows the difference between finding survivors and the dead - is time. Heedless of the dangers, Creed and his best search-and-rescue dog Bolo frantically wade through the chaos of twisted tree limbs, crumbled cement, and unrecognizable debris, when a second slide catches up with Ryder. And he is buried alive. Bolo makes it out, though, and leads the heroic rescue of his master. But what they get when they pull Ryder from the mud is much more than they bargained for. This dramatic incident reveals secrets that run deep, pointing to a possible serial killer and unexpectedly dredging up painful, hushed-up pieces of Creed''s own past. The mysteries unearthed will bring Ryder Creed face-to-face with his past loyalties, deeply embedded survivor''s guilt, and a powerful figure from his past. He''ll have to rely on his dogs if he wants to make it through alive...

In the new edge-of-your seat thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Alex Kava, Ryder Creed, his K9 search-and-rescue dogs and FBI agent Maggie O''Dell find themselves at the centre of a dire and mysterious case. In Chicago, a young man jumps from his thirtieth-storey hotel room; along the Missouri river, a hunter and his son find a lake whose surface is littered with snow geese, all of them dead; and in Southern Alabama, Ryder Creed and his search-and-rescue dog Grace find the body of a young woman who went missing in the Conecuh National Forest . . . and it appears she filled her pockets with rocks and walked into the river. Before long Ryder Creed and FBI profiler Maggie O''Dell will discover the ominous connection between these mysterious deaths. What they find may be the most prolific killer the United States has ever known . . .