ALEX KAVA is a New York Times, USA Today and Amazon bestselling author of seventeen novels including the award-winning FBI Profiler Maggie O'Dell series and the critically acclaimed Ryder Creed K-9 Mystery series. Her novel Stranded was awarded both a Florida Book Award and the Nebraska Book Award. One False Move was chosen for the 2006 One Book One Nebraska and her political thriller, Whitewash, was one of January Magazine's best thrillers of the year. Published in over thirty countries, Kava's novels have made the bestseller lists in the UK, Australia, Germany, Japan, Italy and Poland. She is a member of the Nebraska Writers Guild and International Thriller Writers. Kava divides her time between Omaha, Nebraska and Pensacola, Florida.