AT THE STROKE OF MADNESS by Alex Kava - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK
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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.
When
FBI Special Agent Maggie O'Dell receives a call from Sheriff Henry
Watermeier of New Haven County, Connecticut, she assumes it's a routine
tip. She's working on the case of a missing D.C.-area woman, and it
seems her body had been found. But Maggie's about to learn this is just
the tip of the iceberg in what will be one of the most bizarre,
cold-blooded and confounding cases of her career a a criminal profiler.
During
a cleanup excavation in the deserted quarry, a fifty-five-gallon drum
was discovered, containing the remains of a woman. Then more barrels
are found, containing more bodies: some of the dead have been brutally
murdered, and some have already been buried. At this grisly discovery,
Sheriff Watermeier calls in the FBI, as well as a forensic
anthropologist, Dr. Adam "Bones" Bonzatto, in hopes of identifying the
victims and ultimately the faceless killer.
Maggie arrives in
Connecticut and begins to profile the killer — and quickly recognizes a
pattern to his madness The victim range widely in age and include both
men and women, but they have one thing in common: they all suffered
from an illness or physical deformity of some sort. And the part of
their body that was inflicting is missing. As bizarre as it seems, the
killer appears to have a fascination, an obsession with his victims'
imperfections.
With only an old man who suffers from Alzheimer's
as a witness to the killer's identity, Maggie realizes time is running
out. Because another woman has gone missing, and the old man's illness
has made him the next target. Determined to put an end to the killing,
Maggie has to dig deeper into her own resources than she's ever done
before to catch this killer of unparalleled madness.
Alex Kava
has a bachelor's degree in art and English. Before writing novels
full-time, she ran her own graphic design firm and later was director
of public relations for one of the last all-women's colleges in the
Midwest. She is a member of Sisters in Crime and the Mystery Writers of
America. Kava lives in Omaha, Nebraska.
