""Eerie and Frightening""

"Eerie and Frightening"

Maggie Barnes is a sketch artist for the Seattle Police Department. She has a rare talent for coming up with accurate sketches. Several women have been raped and killed in the Seattle area, their eyes surgically removed. She interviews one of the women, Hollis, who just received an eye transplant in the hospital. Hollis is continually talking to someone that she thinks is really a figment of her imagination. The police find some unusual clues in old records. John's sister is one of the victims and he wants to help find the killer. He calls in Quentin, a psychic, who works in a paranormal unit for the FBI. The murderer is able to get into homes with locked doors and security systems with ease. Maggie teams up with John to find the evil killer.

Touching Evil is an eerie and frightening book. Kay Hooper has a rare talent for writing romantic suspense. This killer is terrifying to the extreme. His ability to get in and out of places without anyone seeing him is uncanny. There is a lot of extra-sensory-perception and paranormal talent with the characters so that things are not always as they seem. Maggie is a remarkable character who suffers with the victims and empathizes with them. All the characters are well drawn and although the reader never hears from the murderer, there is a constant underlying fear of his powerful presence. This is one of the scariest books I have ever read.

Reviewed by Marilyn Heyman
Posted September 27, 2001