Touching
Evil
By
Kay Hooper
Review
by Nicola Lenton
Touching Evil is a 384-page book that contains
the regular who dun it with the paranormal. Maggie Barnes, is a sketch
artist for the police department and is empathic. She speaks with the
victims of brutal rapes where the rapist will either pour acid on their eyes
or will remove them completely. From these meetings she is able to live
through the pain and agony of the attack and hopefully sketch the face of the
killer. She is also driven by another force that she will not talk about to
anyone.
John, is the brother of one of the victims who
commits suicide as a result of her attack. He is determined to get to the
bottom of his sister's death and involves himself with the investigation where
he meets Maggie.
John sees that the police are trying but that
they are not getting anywhere so he calls in a special unit he knows about
attached to the FBI. This group is made up of several people with different
paranormal talents.
Meanwhile, the rapist is still attacking women
but is now killing them as well.
Two police officers stumble onto files from
1934 which shows that there was a very similar set of rapes and murders that
year. The women bear an uncanny resemblance to the victims now.
It was a great book to read, one of those that
you get scared but there is no way of putting the book down until you have
finished it. I will be looking for other books by this authoress.
Publisher:
Bantam Books
ISBN:
0-553-58344-1
