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Maggie O'Dell is an FBI profiler. Her friend, psychologist Gwen Patterson, asks her to check up on her patient and friend, Joan Begley. Begley is missing and had sent Patterson an email that made her suspicious of foul play. Maggie goes to Connecticut, Begley's last known location. While she is there, a cache of 50-gallon drums is found, each containing a body. None of the bodies is Joan, but perhaps the killer is the one responsible for Joan's disappearance. Sheriff Henry Watermeier asks Maggie to be involved in the case. Meanwhile we get glimpses of the killer's life. He grew up dealing with horrible stomach pains which no one believed in. He is killing people with a deformity or disability and cutting out that part of them as a trophy. Maggie O'Dell and the sheriff must find out who he is and catch him before he kills again. Alex Kava writes well. She builds the suspense nicely. The book is not for the weak-stomached, but is not any worse than, say, Patricia Cornwell's books that have a lot of forensics in them. At the Stroke of Madness is the fourth in the Maggie O'Dell series.
Reviewed by Mary A. Axford, July 2003
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