Maggie is an artist that works independently with the police as a sketch artist. She has the amazing ability to talk to a victim, walk a crime scene and produce a drawing that is a perfect likeness of the criminal. Seattle women are currently being hunted by a serial rapist. He is abducting the women, blinding them, and raping them leaving them for dead in abandon buildings. Maggie has been unable to get a feel for this animal and is unable to assist the police since all of the victims have been unable to give any details except that he smells like Ivory soap and that he has a spearmint scented breath.

John is the brother of one of the victims of the blindfold rapist. His sister Christine is dead by her own hand or so the police think. John thinks otherwise and comes to Seattle to follow the investigation and bring in a few friends (Shadow Series) to help tract down the rapist before he starts killing as well.

The police have no clues as to who the rapist is and who he will strike next. Their investigation takes them in all kinds of directions including the fact that these crimes are real similar to crimes that were unsolved from 1934. The victims of the 1934 rapist look almost like twins to the present day victims. What is the link?

If I had a dollar for every use of the word "bastard" in this book, I'd be a rich woman. Not that I mind the word, but it made her seem just lazy. Lots of explanation about psychics, not enough plot.

Good but a series need to read them all

This is the first book in the "Evil" trilogy.

Unusual mystery with supernatural undertones. Keeps you guessing.

Great book. A page turner that kept me wondering and guessing. Finished it in one day!

if you enjoy Kay Hooper...this is a must read!! I couldn't put it down

excellant read, kay hooper is one of the FEW women authors we enjoy, and this book doesnt disappoint!

This is a great read. There are 3 in this series and I am reading them all!! I love Kay Hooper's books.

Gloria

These mysteries are really great.

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liked this book

I like paranormal mysteries a lot more than the traditional murder mystery so I thought this was a good book. It was pretty suspenseful & kept me reading to see what happened next.

awesome book- this is the first book by kay hooper i have read and i plan to read everything she has written! need i say more?

I really enjoy reading this series by Kay Hooper. Will definitely be reading more. This is the third book of hers that I have read.

Seattle polich sketch artist Maggie Barnes has an extraordinary gift. She listens to victims describe their ordeals and then draws sketches. Some police think she is telepathic. Only Maggie knows the truth behind her rare talent - and she isn't telling.

Seattle police sketch artist Maggie Barnes has an extraordinary gift. She listens as traumatized crime victims describe their ordeals and then uses those horrifying recollections to draw dead-on sketches of the assailants. Some cops think Maggie is telepathic, that she can actually enter the victims minds. Only Maggie knows the truth behind her rare talent...and she isn't telling.
But her secret may be exposed when a madman seizes Seattle in his terrifying grip. He abducts women and blinds them, leaving them barely alive. The police have one hope: the lone victim who might recover her sight. But they don't know that Maggie has her own dark connection to the monster-an eerie link that may stretch back to a string of unsolved murders. To stop the excalating terror, Maggie will have to push her abilities to the breaking point-even if it means confronting a predator whose powers seem to have no bounds...

Seattle police sketch artist Maggie Barnes has an extraordinary gift. She listens as traumatized crime victims describe their ordeals — and then uses those horrifying recollections to draw dead-on sketches of the assailants. Some cops think Maggie is telepathic, that she can actually enter the victims' minds. Only Maggie knows the truth behind her rare talent ... and she isn't telling.

But her secret may be exposed when a madman seizes Seattle in his terrifying grip. He abducts women and blinds them, leaving them barely alive. The police have one hope: the lorders. To stop the escalating terror, Maggie will have to push her abilities to the breaking point — even if it means confronting a predator whose powers seem to have no bounds ...

Seattle police sketch artist Maggie Barnes has an extraordinary gift. She listens as traumatized crime victims describe their ordeals — and then uses those horrifying recollections to draw dead-on sketches of the assailants. Some cops think Maggie is telepathic, that she can actually enter the victims’ minds. Only Maggie knows the truth behind her rare talent ... and she isn’t telling.

But her secret may be exposed when a madman seizes Seattle in his terrifying grip. He abducts women and blinds them, leaving them barely alive. The police have one hope: the lone victim who might recover her sight. But they don’t know that Maggie has her own dark connection to the monster — an eerie link that may stretch back to a string of unsolved murders.

To stop the escalating terror, Maggie will have to push her abilities to the breaking point — even if it means confronting a predator whose powers seem to have no bounds....

"Sometimes evil lingers so close, you can feel it..." And Hooper almost lets you feel it in this, her first of three books in the Evil series. Not for the faint-hearted.

very good book

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