Review of A Perfect Evil, a novel by Alex Kava. ==The Book== I am reviewing the paperback version of this novel, published by Mira books, ISBN 978-0778301042, 473 pages, cover price £6.99. Genre Crime thriller. This novel is currently available from amazon.co.uk for £4.40, new or from 0.01p used. The Kindle Reader edition is on sale for £2.80. Alex Kava is the author of 7 thrillers featuring FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell. The subject of this review, A Perfect Evil, is the first in the series. ==The Plot== The story is set in a town called Platte City, in Nebraska. Ronald Jeffreys ...  Read the complete review

This was a book that I picked up on www.readitswapit.co.uk so I knew nothing about the author and nothing about her style of writing prior to starting to read. The author This is one of the first novels by Alex Kava and she has gone on to write many more. They are crime novels in the same genre as Patricia Cornwall, or Kathy Reichs, gritty, descriptive novels with plenty of blood and guts! The characters The book introduces a character who is a recurring one in Kava's novels. Maggie O'Dell is an FBI profiler. A shining star of the FBI having risen through the ranks very quickly to become one of their best at serial killer investigations. ...  Read the complete review

A perfect evil is the first novel by Alex Kava and we are introduced to the her main character the FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell. Alex Kava is an author in the style of Patricia Cornwell or James Patterson, in that all the books are full of murder, serial killers and evil. However, her novels are better than Cornwell and Patterson, there is a better quality writer and doesn't use the shock tactics used by other authors. The book comes in at 408 pages, the book has lots of chapters some of which are very short. In this the first book, a serial killer has been put to death but he insists two of the murders aren't his. No one believes it until a series ...  Read the complete review