Exposed

My husband and I are busy reading some of the previous books in Alex Kava's series featuring FBI Behavioral Analyst Maggie O'Dell.  (See my posts of 8/11/16 & 4/27/16. )  In Exposed (#606), Maggie and one of her fellow FBI agents are lured into a trap.  Promised a "Crash" at a certain address at a specific time, the FBI goes in with a SWAT team for backup.  What they find instead is a little girl and her very ill mother.  It seems the weapon of choice of this killer is a poison of some kind.  In fact, it's actually much worse.

The killer has apparently been planning his attack for a long time, and has borrowed from previous serial killers' modus operandi for crimes both solved and cold cases.  As Maggie O'Dell is confined to a government isolation hospital, can she help her partner on the outside, J.R. Tully, follow the cyber trail of clues to catch a fiendishly clever killer?

This is a very taut and plausible thriller.  I sat up until late at night to finish reading this one.  I must admit, Exposed did leave some ends hanging that left me feeling very unsettled about just how possible it would be to commit this kind of crime with unthinkable consequences.  Kudos, Ms. Kava!