various crime expert sources in her work. She was the Guest of Honor at the Mayhem in the Midlands 2008 Mystery Conference, held in Omaha, NE. Her book ONE FALSE MOVE was selected as the 2006 One Nebraska One Read feature. Maggie O'Dell Before Evil (2017) A Perfect Evil (2000) Split Second (2001) The Soul Catcher (2002) At the Stroke of Madness (2003) A Necessary Evil (2006) Exposed (October 2008) Black Friday (September 2009) Damaged (July 2010) Hot wire (July 2011) Fireproof (July 2012) Stranded (July 2013) Before Evil (September 2017) Ryder Creed Breaking Creed (January 2015) Silent Creed (July 2015) Reckless Creed (2016) Lost Creed (March 2018) Desperate Creed (2019) Hidden Creed (2020) Fallen Creed (2021) Standalone novels One False Move (2004) (One Book One Nebraska Reads Project for 2006) Whitewash (May 2007) Short stories A Breath of Hot Air (2011) Slices of Night: A Three-Part Novella (December 2011 with authors Erica Spindler & J.T. Ellison) Short story collections Storm Season: One Sensational Storm, Three Terrifying Killers (December 2012 with authors Erica Spindler & J.T. Ellison) Other Stories Goodnight, Sweet Mother in Thriller (2006) (anthology with a short story by Alex Kava) References External links Official website with newsletter and contests. Alex Kava at the Internet Book List 1960 births Living people College of Saint Mary alumni Writers from Nebraska American thriller writers People from Merrick County, Nebraska American women novelists 21st-century American novelists 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American women writers 20th-century American women writers Women thriller writers 20th-century pseudonymous writers 21st-century pseudonymous writers Pseudonymous women writers