Alex Kava Books in Order

Haunted by his time searching for bombs in Afghanistan, Ryder Creed avoids working his dogs after dark — until a boy he knows goes missing in a remote Florida forest. As Maggie O’Dell chases a killer targeting homeless men from Washington, D.C., their paths collide in a tense, overnight hunt where nothing good happens after midnight.

Back in Nebraska with Maggie O’Dell on a joint task force, Ryder Creed is asked to help after a postal carrier finds a black bag in a ditch containing something horrifying. When a young woman disappears and an early snowstorm shuts down the countryside, Creed and his dogs may be walking straight into a killer’s trap.

During a training exercise in Florida’s Blackwater River State Forest, Creed’s dog Grace veers off course and uncovers a shallow grave. As more remains surface in the remote woods, investigators realize a local expert has been using the forest as a dumping ground for years — and he is not ready to be exposed.

A swarm of deadly tornadoes tears across Alabama as Ryder Creed and fellow handler Jason Seaver search flattened neighborhoods for survivors. At the same time, Chicago office worker Frankie Russo witnesses her coworker’s murder over a video call, sending killers after her and straight toward Creed, Maggie O’Dell and a monster storm.

Fifteen years ago Ryder Creed’s little sister vanished from an interstate rest stop, a loss that still drives his work with missing‑person searches. When Maggie O’Dell uncovers a fresh clue during a raid, the two team up on a gut‑wrenching hunt through a network that preys on children.

Before she was a seasoned profiler, Maggie O’Dell worked cases from a safe office at Quantico. Then a sadistic killer named Albert Stucky starts leaving pieces of victims in takeout containers, forcing her into the field for a deadly game of cat and mouse that will shape her career.

A man leaps from a Chicago hotel, hundreds of snow geese die on a Missouri lake, and a young woman drowns herself in an Alabama river with her pockets full of stones. Ryder Creed and Maggie O’Dell connect the dots and uncover a lethal virus being tested in the wild.

Hoping a road trip might ease long‑standing tensions, Maggie O’Dell and her mother head out together. A strange man they notice at a diner later rams their car on a lonely stretch of highway, turning a fragile truce into a fight for survival.

Corporate executive Madeline Kramer escapes to a secluded cabin in the woods, hoping for a quiet break from pressure and screens. Instead she finds herself trapped in a night of escalating danger, forced to rely on her wits when the forest hides something far worse than solitude.

A devastating mudslide in North Carolina buries homes, a research facility and anyone unlucky enough to be in its path. Ryder Creed and his dog Bolo search the unstable debris, only to find a scientist shot before the slide, drawing Maggie O’Dell into a conspiracy tied to secret experiments.

Ryder Creed’s scent dogs are famous for finding drugs in airports, but a search of a fishing boat uncovers smuggled children instead. As Creed protects a teenage drug mule who reminds him of his missing sister, Maggie O’Dell follows torture killings that may be tied to an assassin with Creed on a hit list.

When the mutilated body of a young woman turns up near an interstate rest stop, Maggie O’Dell suspects a long‑haul killer who has been hunting travelers for years. A cryptic map sends her and partner R.J. Tully crisscrossing the country with K‑9 handler Ryder Creed before the next victim vanishes.

A warehouse fire in Washington, D.C., looks like one more arson in a string of vacant‑building blazes, until a body is found inside. As more deadly fires erupt, Maggie O’Dell sees a calculating pattern others have missed while a pushy reporter digs into her past and puts her family in the spotlight.

This collaborative novella follows three investigators in three cities, all circling the same elusive predator. In Alex Kava’s section, FBI profiler Maggie O’Dell hunts a killer targeting homeless people in Omaha, racing to catch him before he slips away to claim another victim elsewhere.

A drug‑fueled party in the Nebraska Sandhills ends with a blinding light show and teens apparently electrocuted where they stand. While Maggie O’Dell investigates bizarre scorch‑marked bodies, an outbreak at East Coast schools suggests a biological weapon tying both events together.

With a hurricane bearing down on Pensacola Beach, the Coast Guard finds a large cooler adrift, packed with human body parts. Sent into the storm, Maggie O’Dell links the grisly find to a missing man and uncovers a lucrative trade in stolen cadavers.

During an investigation on Pensacola Beach, Maggie O’Dell is jolted awake when a hotel guest is found dead just as a massive hurricane approaches. Teaming up with a Denver detective, she must decide if the death is suicide or the work of a killer using the storm as cover.

College students carrying mysterious backpacks into the nation’s largest mall expect a harmless stunt, not an explosion that leaves hundreds dead. As survivors are hunted to silence them, Maggie O’Dell and federal agents race to untangle a plot that turns shoppers into weapons.

A series of sudden, gruesome deaths points to a weaponized virus delivered through the mail. Quarantined inside a high‑security medical ward, Maggie O’Dell must profile a killer who mimics famous cases while wondering if she herself has been fatally infected.

Scientist Sabrina Galloway thinks she has her dream job at a Florida company turning waste into clean fuel. When her boss vanishes and a reactor is secretly processing something toxic, she and an elderly neighbor go on the run from killers tied to politics, profit and terror.

When Catholic priests across the country are found ritualistically murdered, Maggie O’Dell uncovers a chilling online community of abuse survivors. To stop the killings she may have to work with the very predator who has haunted her for years.

Con artist Melanie Starks wants out of the life she’s built with her teenage son, until her brother Jared walks out of prison with a plan to rob a small‑town bank. Seconds later four people are dead, and the three of them are on the run with no way back.

On the eve of a long‑overdue vacation, Maggie agrees to look into a friend’s missing patient. In a quiet Connecticut town she finds barrels of dismembered bodies buried in an abandoned quarry and a killer obsessed with collecting grotesque trophies.

A deadly standoff at a remote cabin and the murder of a senator’s daughter both point to a powerful religious leader. When Maggie’s estranged mother is drawn into the same church, Maggie races to expose a cult whose devotion hides lethal secrets.

Two years after Maggie O’Dell helped capture sadistic killer Albert Stucky, he escapes from custody with one goal: revenge. As women connected to Maggie are hunted and murdered, she must outthink a killer who knows exactly how she works.

After a convicted serial killer is executed in rural Nebraska, new murders begin that match his signature. Sheriff Nick Morelli brings in FBI profiler Maggie O’Dell, and together they uncover a predator hidden in the fabric of a small town.