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Sense of Evil [Mass Market Paperback]

Kay Hooper (Author)
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June 29, 2004
Kay Hooper is the brightest new star of suspense fiction. Now the New York Times bestselling author who’s built a reputation for keeping her readers’ pulse in the red zone delivers a thriller that will stun the senses—all six of them. This time a psychic special agent and a gritty cop must stop a brutal killer with a chilling M.O. and an unstoppable...Sense of Evil.

The victims are always the same: beautiful, successful, and blond. Someone was able to coax these intelligent and confident women away from safety. Someone was able to gain their trust long enough to do the unthinkable. Their shocking murders have terrified the inhabitants of a small, peaceful town where such heinous crimes are simply not supposed to happen. Police Chief Rafe Sullivan knows he has to find answers fast before another woman is lured to her death--but Sullivan literally doesn’t have a clue. And when the FBI sends one of their top profilers to help, he’s more than a little surprised that his new partner is nothing like the straight-by-the-book “suit” he expects.Special Agent Isabel Adams is tough, fearless, determined, and every bit Sullivan’s equal. She’s also psychic. And blond.Skeptical of his new partner’s ability to get inside the mind of a killer, Sullivan can’t deny that Isabel has tuned in to the killer’s wavelength, is following the twisted thoughts of a murderer obsessed with stalking, seduction, and death. But in getting so close, Isabel has set herself up as the next victim. Now, with time running out, she and Rafe will find themselves forced to take the greatest risk of all, because this psychopath is playing for keeps and Isabel is the perfect trophy. Unable to turn back, Isabel may have already gone too far. Smart, savvy, and confident, she may find that the very qualities that have kept her alive could turn out to be her undoing. For Isabel has entered the world of a cold-blooded monster who kills without mercy and eludes every sense but one...the sense of evil.

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Praise for the novels of Kay Hooper

?A master storyteller.?
--Tami Hoag

?Kay Hooper keeps me guessing until the very end.?
--Linda Howard

?Kay Hooper comes through with thrills [and] chills.?
--Kirkus Reviews

?You always know you are in for an outstanding read when you pick up a Kay Hooper novel.?
--Romantic Times (gold medal review)


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From the Inside Flap

Kay Hooper is the brightest new star of suspense fiction. Now the New York Times bestselling author who?s built a reputation for keeping her readers? pulse in the red zone delivers a thriller that will stun the senses--all six of them. This time a psychic special agent and a gritty cop must stop a brutal killer with a chilling M.O. and an unstoppable...Sense of Evil.

The victims are always the same: beautiful, successful, and blond. Someone was able to coax these intelligent and confident women away from safety. Someone was able to gain their trust long enough to do the unthinkable. Their shocking murders have terrified the inhabitants of a small, peaceful town where such heinous crimes are simply not supposed to happen. Police Chief Rafe Sullivan knows he has to find answers fast before another woman is lured to her death--but Sullivan literally doesn?t have a clue. And when the FBI sends one of their top profilers to help, he?s more than a little surprised that his new partner is nothing like the straight-by-the-book ?suit? he expects.Special Agent Isabel Adams is tough, fearless, determined, and every bit Sullivan?s equal. She?s also psychic. And blond.Skeptical of his new partner?s ability to get inside the mind of a killer, Sullivan can?t deny that Isabel has tuned in to the killer?s wavelength, is following the twisted thoughts of a murderer obsessed with stalking, seduction, and death. But in getting so close, Isabel has set herself up as the next victim. Now, with time running out, she and Rafe will find themselves forced to take the greatest risk of all, because this psychopath is playing for keeps and Isabel is the perfect trophy. Unable to turn back, Isabel may have already gone too far. Smart, savvy, and confident, she may find that the very qualities that have kept her alive could turn out to be her undoing. For Isabel has entered the world of a cold-blooded monster who kills without mercy and eludes every sense but one...the sense of evil.


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Product Details

  • Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam (June 29, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0553583476
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553583472
  • Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 1 x 6.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #420,152 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

KAY HOOPER is the award-winning author of Sleeping with Fear, Stealing Shadows, and more than ten other novels of suspense and intrigue along with dozens of other books. She lives in North Carolina.

 

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars A Good Paranormal Mystery - But Not Hooper's Best!, August 22, 2004
This review is from: Sense of Evil (Hardcover)
Special Agent Isabel Adams of the FBI's Special Crimes Unit, the elite unit made up of psychic agents, is assigned to investigate a series of horrific murders in Hastings, SC. Isabel is a top notch profiler and clairvoyant. Her partner, Hollis Templeton, is a medium. Together with local Police Chief, Rafe Sullivan, they pool their skills and resources, paranormal and otherwise, to catch the serial killer menacing the town - a killer who epitomizes evil.

Obviously Agent Adams is beautiful, blonde, sexy, smart, savvy, a martial arts expert, sharpshooter and an excellent investigator. Police Chief Sullivan isn't bad on the eyes either. Yes. Sparks fly...with paranormal results.

I like Kay Hooper's psychic series. However, my favorites are "Out Of The Shadows," featuring Noah Bishop who heads the Special Crimes Unit, and Sheriff Miranda Knight, and "Stealing Shadows." "Sense of Evil" held my interest and is a good light read, if somewhat gruesome. However, it doesn't hold up to the high standards Ms. Hooper set in the above mentioned novels. The characters here are less developed, not as complex, and the story is somewhat formulaic. The mystery is a good one, however. I sure couldn't figure out whodunit!
JANA
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Great, but definitely not her best..., October 10, 2003
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This review is from: Sense of Evil (Hardcover)
While her Shadows trilogy did not need to be read in order to understand (I started with Bishop and Miranda's story, which is still my favorite), her Evil trilogy should be. There are recurring characters that are more fun to revisit if you've read about them before. As for this book, I couldn't put it down. Ms. Hooper has such a way about leaving you hanging to where you MUST continue. Most of her books have a very touching romantic element to the story, which is probably my second favorite aspect of the novels (the first, of course, being that they're all psychically inclined). Sense of Evil, however, was missing that, which was why I gave it 4 stars. I hope Ms. Hooper will return to adding a bit more romance to her characters--it's one of the things that makes them 3-dimensional and so very loveable! But that aside, Isabel and Rafe's story is a great one that should be read and enjoyed! I just hate the fact that I have to wait for the next one!
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Thank Goodness I Didn't Buy This Book, August 22, 2004
This review is from: Sense of Evil (Mass Market Paperback)
Hooper's books continue to be marred by lapses in logic and research. From the book where the woman woke up from a months long coma with long manicured nails to the one where an inexperience forensics team estimated height and weight of a murder victim from a box of bone fragments, I've often found myself being jerked out of the story by some easily checked error. While I had hoped for rather better because this was her hardcover debut, I was doomed to disappointment again.

While I can suspend belief to accept the psychic part, its the mundane details she misses that gets me.

I see someone has already commented about Hooper's off the wall view of schizophrenia, but what about the FBI agent who had checked all the pharmacies within a hundred miles and no one was taking "schizophrenia medicine"? Because there is no specific medication for schizophrenia and the medications used in its treatment are often prescribed for other mental illness, I could only assume, all other evidence of rampant alcoholism, sado sexual murder and family violence aside, Hastings, South Carolina is the mental health capital of the United States.

Then there is the FBI agent in tight jeans with a calf holster. No matter how good their tush looks, no one who depends on a gun to save their life is going to use a calf holster exclusively. Sheesh, how do you get to it standing up?

I'm not even going to talk about her lack of knowledge about how bodies decay, especially in late spring in South Carolina locked in with rats and certainly not impervious to flies. Read Death's Acre by William M. Bass if you want to know more.

All in all, I think that Hooper needs a fact checker and an editor who is willing to call her on these lapses. She also failed to engage my interest with the characterization. If the reader was new to the series I have no idea how they would have been able to figure out who was who with the introduction of so many characters from the early series.
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