A NECESSARY EVIL

Women are being murdered in Washington, D.C., and Catholic priests are turning up dead elsewhere. The connection seems to be Kava's series character, FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell, who leaves the nation's capital for Omaha to investigate the situation. There she encounters a former beau, a killer priest, and an Internet game master called the "Sin Eater." Deborah Hazlett is a good choice to read this action-packed plot. Her pace and diction ensure that the listener can keep up with what's going on. She embodies Maggie, who is clear-thinking, intelligent, and vulnerable, and invests the remaining characters with personalities, if not voices. Kava's prefacing of each section with its location works particularly well for scene-shifting in audio. J.B.G. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine [Published: DEC 06/ JAN 07]