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Alex Kava - Novelas Independientes
- Título original: One False Move
- Género: Suspense, Thriller
- Sinopsis:
Released on a technicality, Jared Barnett is just out of prison and feeling more invincible than ever. He has the perfect plan to rob a local Nebraska bank, but he needs Melanie’s and Charlie’s help. Feeling that she owes the brother who saved her from an unspeakably violent childhood, Melanie agrees to Jared’s plan.
But within seconds, shots are fired and Jared and Charlie run out of the bank. They are empty-handed and four people are dead. When they refuse to tell her what happened in those few desperate moments, Melanie realizes her brother and son have formed a silent bond. And now they are all on the run from the police, taking a hostage with them and willing to do anything to survive.
- Título original: Goodnight, Sweet Mother In Thriller
- Género: Suspense, Thriller
- Sinopsis:
THRILLER is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Offering up heart-pumping tales of suspense in all its guises are thirty-two of the most critically acclaimed and award-winning names in the business. From the signature characters that made such authors as Lee Child and John Lescroart famous, to some of the hottest new voices in the genre, this blockbuster will tantalize and terrify.
- Título original: Whitewash
- Género: Suspense, Thriller
- Sinopsis:
Fighting mounting terror fueled by too many accidents and untimely deaths, Sabrina pieces together the grim puzzle. The evidence points to a cover-up orchestrated by the chief executives of EcoEnergy. Now her determination to expose the company's secret has placed her in the crosshairs of a conspiracy that reaches further than she could ever imagine--America's biggest traitors are lurking behind the doors of one of the highest offices in the land.
Desperate, Sabrina flees the company with damning evidence, aware that an enemy with eyes and ears everywhere makes each move a gamble. Running for her life with nowhere to hide and no one to trust, Sabrina knows her next step could be her last...
Alex Kava - Saga Ryder Creed
- Título original: Breaking Creed
- Género: Thriller, Suspense, Policial
- Serie: Ryder Creed 01
- Sinopsis:
Ryder Creed and his dogs have been making national headlines. They’ve intercepted 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. She suspects it’s the work of a cunning and brutal assassin, but her politically motivated boss has been putting up roadblocks.
By the time she uncovers a hit list with Creed’s name on it, it might be too late. The cartel has already sent someone to destroy Creed and everyone close to him.
But Creed and his dogs have a few surprises in store on their compound in Florida. Will it be enough to stop a ruthless cartel determined to remove the thorn in its side once and for all?
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. She suspects it’s the work of a cunning and brutal assassin, but her politically motivated boss has been putting up roadblocks.
By the time she uncovers a hit list with Creed’s name on it, it might be too late. The cartel has already sent someone to destroy Creed and everyone close to him.
But Creed and his dogs have a few surprises in store on their compound in Florida. Will it be enough to stop a ruthless cartel determined to remove the thorn in its side once and for all?
- Título original: Silent Creed
- Género: Thriller, Suspense, Policial
- Serie: Ryder Creed 02
- Sinopsis:
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. What they get when they pull Ryder out from the mud is much more than they bargained for. The secrets in the mud around Creed 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.
- Título original: Silent Creed
- Género: Thriller, Suspense, Policial
- Serie: Ryder Creed 03
- Sinopsis:
In Chicago, a young man jumps from his thirtieth-story hotel room; along the Missouri river, a hunter and his son stumble upon 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 among these mysterious deaths. What they find may be the most prolific killer the United States has ever known.
Alex Kava - Saga Maggie O'Dell
- Género: Thriller, Suspense, Policial
- Serie: Maggie O'Dell 01
- Sinopsis:
Bajo sospecha es el primer libro de Alex Kava. Con él se ha hecho un hueco entre los escritores actuales del género de intriga.
Con una maestría ejemplar va desgranando una inquietante historia de suspense y embarca a los protagonistas en una escalofriante lucha contra el mal.
¿Qué ocurre cuando un asesino en serie es condenado y ejecutado, y meses después comienzan a ocurrir asesinatos que siguen el mismo patrón? El sheriff Nick Morelli no estaba preparado para enfrentarse a un caso así, y pidió ayuda a Maggie O’Dell, la mejor agente de homicidios del FBI. En una carrera contrarreloj, Nick y Maggie tienen que enfrentarse a una horrible verdad: quizá un hombre había sido ejecutado por unos crímenes que no había cometido y andaba suelto un asesino que parecía la encarnación del mal...
Alex Kava ha creado una novela llena de suspense y un personaje, la agente O’Dell, que no se olvidará fácilmente.
- Título original: Sin Aliento
- Género: Thriller, Suspense, Policial
- Serie: Maggie O'Dell 02
- Sinopsis:
Lo llamaban el Coleccionista, porque seguía el ritual de reunir a sus víctimas antes de deshacerse de ellas de la manera más atroz imaginable. La agente especial de FBI La agente especial del FBI Maggie O´Dell le había seguido la pista durante dos largos años, terminando por fin con aquel juego del gato y el ratón. Pero ahora Albert Stucky se había fugado de la cárcel...y estaba preparando un nuevo juego para Maggie O´Dell.
Desde que atrapara a Stucky, había estado caminando sobre la cuerda floja, luchando contra sus pesadillas y la culpabilidad por no haber podido salvar a las víctimas. Ahora que Stucky estaba de nuevo en libertad, la habían apartado del caso, pero sabía que era cuestión de tiempo que la volvieran a aceptar...
Cuando el rastro de víctimas de Stucky comenzó a apuntar cada vez más claramente a Maggie, ésta fue incorporada de nuevo al caso bajo la supervisión del agente especial R. J. Tully. Juntos tendrían que enfrentarse a una carrera contrarreloj para atrapar al asesino, que siempre iba un sangriento paso por delante. Pero Maggie sentía que había llegado al límite. ¿Su deseo de detener a Albert Stucky se había convertido en una cuestión de venganza personal? ¿Había cruzado la línea? Tal vez ése fuera el objetivo de Stucky desde el principio... convertirla en un monstruo.
- Título original: Sin Aliento
- Género: Thriller, Suspense, Policial
- Serie: Maggie O'Dell 03
- Sinopsis:
En una cabaña aislada de Massachusetts, seis jóvenes dispuestos a morir se atrincheran esperando el asalto de agentes del FBI.
En una zona boscosa de Washington, cerca del monumento a Franklin D. Roosevelt, aparece el cadáver de la hija de un senador.
Para Maggie O´Dell, agente especial del FBI encargada de la investigación, estos dos casos están lejos de ser rutinarios. Experta en la elaboración de perfiles criminales, Maggie aporta un enfoque psicológico en casos en los que intervienen presuntos asesinos en serie. De ahí que no acabe de entender por qué se le asigna la investigación de dos crímenes sin relación aparente.
Sin embargo, a medida que Maggie y su compañero, el agente especial R.J. Tully, se sumerjan en la investigación, descubrirán que ambos casos están unidos por un vínculo: el reverendo Joseph Everett, líder carismático de una conocida secta religiosa.
¿Es Everett un psicópata que utiliza su influencia para escenificar crímenes horrendos? ¿O es tan sólo la cabeza de turco de un asesino más astuto y retorcido que él?
- Título original: Stroke Of Madness
- Género: Thriller, Suspense, Policial
- Serie: Maggie O'Dell 04
- Sinopsis:
The fourth novel in the Maggie O'Dell series (A Perfect Evil; Split Second; Soul Catcher) features a serial killer with a taste for grisly butchery. At the outset of a long overdue vacation, FBI special agent O'Dell agrees to investigate a simple missing person case for her good friend, psychologist Gwen Patterson. Coincidentally, in the quiet Connecticut small town where Gwen's patient was last seen, a barrel containing a dead body is discovered in an abandoned rock quarry. Maggie offers her services to the local sheriff because she needs to rule out the possibility that the victim is Gwen's patient. Professor Adam Bonzado, a forensic anthropologist and friend of the sheriff, is already at work; a dozen or more 55-gallon barrels have surfaced. As they're pried open, releasing the telltale nauseating stench, an odd assortment of cannibalized victims come to light, including a female breast cancer survivor-her breast implants cut out and removed-and an embalmed corpse, brain missing. Chapters narrated from the point of view of Gwen's missing patient (she's alive but in dire straits) and the paranoid killer alternate with accounts of the tedious work of the coroner and the anthropologist. As Maggie processes the information they provide, she also ministers to elderly but endearing Luc Racine, who lives near the quarry. His Jack Russell terrier keeps bringing him human bones, but since Luc is fighting Alzheimer's he may or may not be a viable witness. Kava's plotting is capable, but there's only a hint of romance and little humor to provide relief from the lashings of gore.
- Título original: A Necessary Evil
- Género: Thriller, Suspense, Policial
- Serie: Maggie O'Dell 05
- Sinopsis:
When a monsignor is found knifed to death in a Nebraska airport restroom, FBI special agent Maggie O'Dell is called in to profile the ritualistic murder of a priest, the latest in a series of killings. Maggie soon discovers a disturbing Internet game that's popular among victims of abuse by Catholic priests. With this first real lead in the investigation, she wonders if the group has turned cyberspace justice into reality. Then Maggie gets a second lead--one that leaves her stunned. For the past four years she has been obsessed with finding Father Michael Keller, whose brutal acts against children continue to haunt her. Now, it seems, "he" has become a target. When Keller offers to help Maggie solve the ritual killings in exchange for protection, she decides to ally herself with the elusive child killer, stepping into a world of malevolence from which she may not return unscathed.
Maggie knows the bargain is a necessary evil...one that may be made in blood...
- Título original: Exposed
- Género: Thriller, Suspense, Policial
- Serie: Maggie O'Dell 06
- Sinopsis:
- Título original: Black Friday
- Género: Thriller, Suspense, Policial
- Serie: Maggie O'Dell 07
- Sinopsis:
- Título original: Damaged
- Género: Thriller, Suspense, Policial
- Serie: Maggie O'Dell 08
- Sinopsis:
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.
- Título original: Hotwire
- Género: Thriller, Suspense, Policial
- Serie: Maggie O'Dell 09
- Sinopsis:
In author Alex Kava’s new thriller, 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, what started as a group of kids filming their drug-fueled 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 realizes that the surviving teens are being targeted and systematically eliminated. Meanwhile on the East Coast, Maggie’s FBI partner, R.J. Tully, and Army colonel Benjamin Platt are 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, Tully, and Platt uncover secrets that were meant to stay hidden in the remote Midwest landscape.
- Título original: Hotwire
- Género: Thriller, Suspense, Policial
- Serie: Maggie O'Dell 10
- Sinopsis:
When a building bursts into flames on a cold winter night in D.C., investigators see a resemblance to a string of recent fires in the area. There is one difference, however: This one has a human casualty. The local team insists they're looking for a young white male, suffering from an uncontrollable impulse to act out his anger or sexual aggression. But when special agent Maggie O'Dell is called in, everything she sees leads her to believe that this is the work of a calculating and controlled criminal.
Jeffery Cole, a reporter looking for his big break, is also at the scene of the crime and decides to make Maggie part of his news piece, digging up aspects of her past that she would rather forget. Maggie's brother Patrick is also back in DC where he is working for a private firefighting company and is frequently called in as these fires continue to light up around the city.
As the acts of arson become more brazen, Maggie's professional and personal worlds begin to collide dangerously. The killer may be closer than she imagines.
- Título original: Stranded
- Género: Thriller, Suspense, Policial
- Serie: Maggie O'Dell 11
- Sinopsis:
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 terrorizing the nation's highways, she turns to a former foe for help since he seems to know just what the killer's next move will be. As she gets closer to finding the killer, it becomes eerily clear that Maggie is the ultimate target.
Alex Kava
Alex Kava nació en un pueblecito de Nebraska, Silver Creek (de 500 habitantes). De niña, escribía relatos cortos en el dorso de viejos calendarios y en cualquier trozo de papel; los compartía sólo con su hermano pequeño y los escondía debajo de la cama, en una caja de zapatos.
Alex consiguió una beca para ir a la universidad. Para pagar sus gastos, trabajó en un hospital cercano lavando el instrumental y las palanganas del depósito de cadáveres y del departamento de cirugía. Se graduó magna cum laude en la universidad de Saint Mary, en Omaha, Nebraska, en Arte y Literatura. Ha hecho estudios de posgrado en publicidad y marketing. Durante los últimos quince años, Alex trabajó en el mundo del diseño gráfico, publicidad y relaciones públicas, diseñando la presentacion de productos alimenticios, logos para empresas nacionales y folletos promocionales. Además de crear una línea de tarjetas de felicitación, también ha dirigido anuncios para radio y televisión.
Pero en el verano de 1996, dejó su trabajo como directora de Relaciones Públicas para dedicar más tiempo a la escritura. Para pagar las facturas, creó su propia empresa de diseño gráfico, Square One, refinanció la hipoteca de su casa, utilizó las tarjetas de crédito hasta el límite e incluso trabajó repartiendo periódicos. En el verano de 1996, el asesino en serie John Joubert fue ejecutado. La inspiración de Alex para Bajo Sospecha partió de su experiencia mientras trabajaba en un pequeño periódico de la comunidad donde, en 1983, Joubert había cometido sus crímenes. Su ejecución le recordó el terror experimentado no sólo por esa comunidad, sino por muchos padres en todo Nebraska. Bajo Sospecha fue su primera novela, pero no ha dejado de escribir y publicar. Además de atender a los clientes de Square One, también trabaja como profesora suplente en una universidad local. Alex vive en Omaha, Nebraska, con sus dos perros, Miss Molly y Scout...
Sitio web oficial: http://www.alexkava.com/
Sagas
01-A Perfect Evil
02-Split Second
03-The Soul Catcher
04-At the Stroke of Madness
05-A Necessary Evil
06-Exposed
07-Black Friday
08-Damaged
09-Hotwire
10-Fireproof
11-Stranded
01-Breaking Creed
02-Silent Creed
03-Reckless Creed
