Touching Evil: A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel

by Kay Hooper

Book Overview

Sometimes evil lingers so close, you can feel it.... Seattle police sketch artist Maggie Barnes has an extraordinary gift. She listens as traumatized crime victims describe their ordeals - and then uses those horrifying recollections to draw dead-on sketches of the assailants. Some cops think Maggie is telepathic, that she can actually enter the victims' minds. Only Maggie knows the truth behind her rare talent ... and she isn't telling. But her secret...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553583441
• ISBN13: 9780553583441
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.4" x 7.2"

Customer Reviews

If you like scary books, .......

This is one of the better ones I've read. There isn't an overabundance of steamy romance, and the fear factor is pretty high. The storyline moves right along, and it is believable. I highly recommend it.

New to Kay Hooper - Now I'm a fan!

I have always been a huge fan of any author who can take you outside your own world and make you sad when you close the pages on that new world. That's exactly what Ms. Hooper's book did for me! Our heroine, Maggie has such extraordinary gifts and it was amazing to see what someone does for others. The characters, from wonderful Noah to John and Andy all need something from Maggie and they're protection of her in their own ways, is warming. I also loved that the women were strong as well - and humorous - not something you find in a book with equally strong males.I'm buying all her books - right now! Can't get enough of the story - storyline and the way she pushes you to think "outside the box".

ANOTHER POWERFUL PSYCHIC TRIOLOGY UNDERWAY!

I was so jublilated to discover that Kay Hooper has written another psychic murder mystery series. I absolutely loved all of her previous "Shadow Series" novels and I think that the "Evil Series" will be just as good. "Touching Evil" featured everyone's favorite psychic FBI Agent, Noah Bishop! The plot: Women are getting murdered, maimed, and mutilated in Seattle, Washington. Luckily, one of the victims survived her horrific experience. Sketch artist Maggie O'Connor is called in by the Seattle PD to help recreate a picture of the city's latest psychopath from the surviving victim. Maggie has psychic abilities. When she goes to visit the crime scenes, visions come into her head. Either of pictures of the murder or scenes from the victims eyes. A powerful businessman needs Maggie to help catch this killer because this psychopath butchered his sister. As the case intensifies, and the danger for Maggie's life escalates, Agent Bishop is called in to help. This novel keeps the suspense pounding the whole way like a nerve shattering roller coaster ride all the way until the exciting finale. I can't wait for "Whisper of Evil" in March 2002!

Oh My, Oh My!

I?ve started this review several times, and I just can?t seem to come up with words and descriptions to do justice to this book. In my wildest dreams I didn?t see how Kay Hooper could possible top her ?Shadows? trilogy which I thought was fantastic, but you know what, I think she has managed to do just that.Maggie Barnes is a police sketch artist working with the police in Seattle. She has a unique gift of being able to draw crucial information out of victims and therefore sketching whoever has harmed them. No matter how terrifying or gruesome the crime is, Maggie finds a way to relate to the victims. That is until the Blindfold Rapist hits Seattle. John Garrett is a powerful businessman who has just managed to worm his way into a high profile case. Someone is attacking the women of Seattle, savagely raping and brutally beating them. Then, for reasons known only to the attacker, he cuts their eyes out. Why is John involved? One of the victims was his sister.While Seattle has a good police department, John becomes frustrated and takes matters into his own hands by calling Quentin, boyhood friend. Quentin works for a special unit at the FBI. This special unit deals with psychic abilities and the unknown. Sound familiar? You got it. Some friends from the ?Shadows? trilogy make an appearance and play a vital part of this story. As I said before, there are so many factors in this story that I can?t do it justice. I will say this before you dive into it, pay attention to the numerous characters introduced. They all play vital roles. If I have any complaints about this new series it would be the fact they are not going to be released one after another for three months like the last trilogy Ms. Hooper wrote. I have to admit while reading the ?Shadows? trilogy, I got spoiled knowing I only had to wait one month before the next book came out.

Great romantic suspense-lots of surprises

There is nothing more frightening on the face of this earth than encountering the personification of evil when it wears a human visage. The women of Seattle are very fearful because some psychopathic madman is abducting women, raping and torturing them and cutting out their eyes. There are at least four victims, two dead, one alive but without sight, and the last person underwent pioneering eye surgery when she was given the eyes of a dead person. Maggie Barnes, the police sketch artist, has an uncanny way of getting victims to relive the crimes that destroyed them so she can draw a picture of the perpetrator. John Garrett, a very successful and powerful businessman, is the brother of one of the dead victims of The Blindfold Rapist. He is using all the resources at his command, some of them very unique, to help Maggie and the police find the culprit. Neither Maggie nor John pays attention to the danger that surrounds them as they come even closer to unmasking the killer. If they come out of this investigation alive, a glorious future awaits the two of them together. Readers who liked Kay Hooper's psychic suspense Shadow series will love this work which features characters from that trilogy who make cameo appearances. The romance plays a secondary role to the action-oriented story line but there is plenty of appeal to readers who like romance, paranormal and suspense in one great package. TOUCHING EVIL is an enthralling work written by a natural storyteller. Harriet Klausner