Beth Katz is an FBI special agent who's skill to tracking serial killers. She developed this skill after living with a serial killer, her father. Now she tracks them, but also kills them, when she can, a vigilante. The ones she kills are predators, those who prey on young girls. When the book opens, Beth rescues a child and kills the kidnapper, but tells her partner that when she came upon him, he was already dead. She is not believed, and the next thing she knows, she has been transferred to Rattlesnake Creek, Montana to work with (ie train with) FBI Senior Special Agent Dax Styles. She has to learn how they do things out west, but before long, they are tracking down the "Pied Piper" a serial killer who is killing children throughout the state. What Beth realizes is that this killer always takes two girls, one is found dead, the other disappears. Her goal is to find the second girl and find out what has been happening to them. When she comes face to face with the killer, will she turn him over, or will she end his life?

I wasn't sure when this book started how I would feel. I am not a fan of serial killers, even vigilantes who are killing bad people, but something about Beth's character called to me. This was an extremely interesting plot, one that was a bit convoluted as one thing led to something else. I really liked seeing how Beth and Dax would work together. He is different from other partners she worked with as he is a bit of a maverick himself. He plays the game with other law enforcement, but supports Beth and believes in her. Styles has always been a loner, so working with Beth was a bit out of his comfort zone. He didn't completely trust her, and rightfully so as she was keeping secrets and plans from him. The investigation into what happened to the second girls was dark, and nasty, but unfortunately, it was also believable. I'm not going to say much more, except that this was a creepy story, one with twists, extremely tense moments and great characters. This book is a police procedural, crime thriller and mystery all rolled into one. I am looking forward to the second book in this series. Shadow Angel.

I wa so pleased to read this new series of books from D K Hood. I am a big fan of the Kane and Alton books and this new series promises to be just as addictive. We meet a fascinating new FBI Agent Beth Katz. We learn about Beth’s past. Her father was a serial killer who also murdered her mother. Beth also has a secret mission and that is to search for serial killers and to make sure that they are eliminated by fair means or foul. She leaves behind a Tarot Card with the bodies and has become known as the Tarot Card killer but know one suspects Beth. This is proving a very difficult for her whilst being an FBI Agent. Beth is transferred to Rattlesnake Creek, Montana and has a new partner Senior Special Agent Dax Styles. A body of a missing schoolgirl Brooklyn Daniels is discovered in woodlands. She disappeared a week earlier when she had gone with a friend to pick wildflowers. On seeing the body of Brooklyn Beth realises that this resembles a cold case where two girls went missing, one girl vanished and the other one was killed. Beth knows that this is going to be a difficult case but she is determined to catch this serial killer. This was a disturbing read involving human trafficking, assault and murders but had me totally gripped from the first page. I cannot wait to read book number two.
Thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture giving me the opportunity to read and review this book,

Like always a big thank you to the publisher Bookouture, and to the author as well as to NetGalley for letting me read and review Dark Angel.Now on to my thoughts: As soon as I heard that D.K. Hood was coming out with new series and that it was a spin off to her Detectives Kane and Alton , I knew without a doubt that 1 : it was something I want to read and 2 : I was going to love it ,and as soon as I started read it I was so right and that was just after reading a few pages of it . And here's why I'm now hooked on it and it's now a new favorite of mine , and yes I do have books 2 and 3 to read .
1: The characters themselves
2: the nonstop action from the frist page
3: the twist and turns
4: the goosebumps that I got while reading the parts of the killer ,
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FBI agent Beth Katz has some serious issues. She fights her inner demons while rescuing kidnapped children. If the child is dead she vows to find the killer. After some tricky cases she is sent to Rattlesnake Creek to partner with Dax, a man with his own problems. Beth's father was a serial killer and she uses that background to accomplish her missions. I am already looking for more books in this series.

Great read
First in a new series by this author
And another great book
Fast paced will have you hooked
Thanks NetGalley

An epic read. FBI agent Beth Katz is relocated to quiet rural town of Rattlesnake Creek against her wishes. She is assigned to work with local agent Dax Styles on a murder case where a young girl has been found in the woodlands and her friend is missing. It turns out similar cases have taken place in neighbouring towns. The clock is ticking to solve the murder and what has happened to the missing girls. Beth also harbours a dark secret, serving up her own form of justice to criminals.
A gripping start to what will hopefully become a great series. Beth and Dax are both strong characters and mavericks in their own way but bond well. Recommend read.

I received both DK Hood - Beth Katz books and they were both great! A really good detective novel that follows Katz and her partner as they try to discover the cause when a body turns up! Thank you so much NetGalley, book picture and DK Hood for allowing me to read these books before their releases!!

I don't enjoy writing negative reviews but we're supposed to be honest so I have to say that unfortunately I was unable to suspend disbelief as much as it's needed for this series.

This is a review for both the two initial novels in this series
I usually like DK Hood novels and had high expectations for this new series as there was a sort of Dexter echo in the blurb.
I enjoyed this thriller as it's fast paced and well plotted. Beth is a flawed charachter on the grey moral spectrum, a sort of vigilante.
The plot kept me hooked and guessing and it's fast paced.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher for this ARC, all opinions are mine

What a brilliant start to a new series!
I love this author so was really pleased to get selected for this book.
Agent Beth Katz has a dark secret. As well as being an FBI agent, she is also a serial killer, intent on bringing previously uncatchable child killers to justice.
What a great original basis for a story.
Really enjoyed this and so glad to see that some of the characters from Black Rock Falls are mentioned and also appear.
Very much looking forward to book 2

FANTASTIC introduction to a new & very different lead detective. Great characterization along with an abundance of suspense throughout to the terrific finale. RECOMMEND highly & looking forward for more of the same. Thanks to#NetGalley#Bookouture for#DarkAngel in return for my honest review.

2.5★
“When kept under control, her dark side was like a virus grown in a lab, only lethal when it escaped.”

If she said it once, she said it several dozen times. I didn’t bother to count. She’s the avenging angel, murdering serial killers while working as an FBI agent – and getting away with it. She is a computer expert, a disguise expert, and says she is a psychopath but not your everyday, garden variety psychopath, because she knows who and what she is.

“Psychopathic serial killers come in many flavors—the careless, the smart, and the invisible—and then there’s me. I figure the others are sick freaks, and you might ask what makes me different? You see, in my world they’re the prey and I’m the predator.”

She’s special. She knows that psychopaths can be so charming and charismatic that people love them. She is aware that intelligent FBI agents know this, so she’s careful to harness her instinct to be charming and likeable so she won’t raise suspicions. She purposely puts on a somewhat bristly exterior.

“Allowing her psychopath’s charm to surface, she looked at the girl. Being the sweet colleague or the perfect neighbor was a mistake many of her kind made. She had it in spades and could turn it on and off like a tap when needs be.”

That’s what she says in the beginning – that she has to “allow” her charm to resurface - that her instincts are to be nice and make people like her so she can gain their trust and use it against them.

Then, all the way through the book, we’re told how she fights to control her instinctive threatening looks and behaviour, her violent nature, her thirst for revenge.

After rescuing a girl (and killing the perp), the FBI sends her out to Montana to ‘recover’ from the trauma of dealing with so many deaths. She can hardly complain, so she goes, gets jeans, boots, Stetson and joins the local FBI agent to fight crime in the woods.

For me, this was like reading a textbook written as a thriller, with steady repetition of what it takes for her to do her work and how clever she is at doing it.

“She’d added a few other accessories from the stash she’d hidden in her luggage. The dangly gold earrings were in fact lock picks and her belt, once unclasped, transformed into a garrote. She arranged the wig and pushed a pair of eight-inch long hatpins into each side. The decorated tops made them resemble a normal hair clip. She’d had these pins made especially from steel and kept the points deadly sharp. The brooch she attached to her top held a detachable shuriken. The Japanese throwing star was held in place with a magnet. She’d used this method of killing before and was an expert at throwing them.”

I admit after the first quarter of the book, I skimmed. I would like to think an editor will pick up the typos (“your” instead of “you’re” and “might” instead of “mite”).

There must be readers who eat this stuff up, but I’m obviously not one of them. I wish them well, but I recommend they try Michael Robotham instead to enjoy some good writing and see how it should be done.

Thanks to #NetGalley and Bookouture for the copy of #DarkAngel for review.

I love love LOVE this new series by D.K Hood what an incredible story!! Beth Katz is a bad ass character with a bone chilling secret!! It took me a little bit to get used to this one because it is so different from the detective kane and Alton series! BUT NON THE LESS THIS ONE WAS SO FAST PACED AND I COULDN’T FLIP THE PAGES FAST ENOUGH Dk hood is a master story teller in the crime fiction genre!! I can’t wait to read more of her books in this new series!!

Ever wondered what would it be like, if a person who has sworn to uphold the law, is themselves a serial killer? Meet Beth Krantz, FBI agent by day and the Tarot Killer by night. Beth was a young girl when she had witnessed her father murder her mother and recognized the awakening of a monster inside herself as well. Despite her best efforts, she is unable to overcome the dark monster within and hopes to find a outlet for it by hunting them through legal channels.

As much as Beth works within the boundaries and helps in the capture of the hidden monsters of the society, she also kills some of them, particularly those who are clever enough to escape the binds of law, in the guise of "The Tarot Killer". However, her hunt is brought to a halt, when she is transferred to a very small town Rattlesnake Creek, in the middle of treacherous mountains, after a particularly brutal case. At her new unit, Beth is teamed up with Dax Styles, who is also a maverick and someone who doesn't believe in always operating within the lines of the law.

Soon after Beth's arrival, her team is called upon to investigate the disappearance of a pair of young girls and the team discover that this case is the work of a serial killer who has been targeting young girls across a couple of states for many months. The relentless hunter that she is, Beth does everything in her power to flush out the killer - she even puts herself in danger. Will the team succeed in capturing the killer? And even if they do, will Beth give him her brand of justice or will it be within the limits of the law? What are the changes this small community brings forth in her?

Author D.K.Hood has succeeded in creating a wonderfully complex character whose moral boundaries are neither solid nor completely in the white. In fact, there is a possibility that many readers won't agree with her actions nor would they be able to relate to her. But I absolutely loved this fresh take on a protagonist, who is very much a criminal herself. It will definitely speak to the hearts of readers, who have always wanted a protagonist who will sometimes twist the boundaries of law to suit certain impossible situations.

Hood has a gripping narrative style which is sharp and crisp but also flows without a hitch, carrying the narrative forward seamlessly. The narrative is almost entirely from Beth's perspective with a few insights into Style's mind. The investigation is portrayed realistically with the reader being shown the lengthy and monotonous process it usually can be. The author has set a solid base which can be transformed into a compelling series going forward. This is a wonderful start to an interesting premise which I am looking forward to read more of.

This is the first book in a new series, one with an original plotline, an fbi agent who hunts those who kill vigilante style while still keeping up with her day job. This was an intriguing story with some great characters who I look forward to getting to know better. I'm excited to see how this series will pan out.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an ARC of this book.

A new book and a new character from the author D. K. Hood. This time you have the daughter of a convicted seral killer hunting down serial killers and doing to them what she knows should be done her justice. She has conflicts throughout the story for she is also an F.B.I. agent and this just adds to the intrigue of the story and the character. After the last serial killer is found and she shows up at the crime scene she is later transferred across the country and now has a partner she now has to really change because she does not want him to find out about her double life or maybe that is why she is being partnered with him. A really good story, and the two characters of Beth and Dax really work well together. If you are a fan of the other book then you will like this one as well.

Dark Angel by D.K. Hood
Detective Beth Katz #1

Definitely fiction and not terribly believable at times but an interesting look at a, to me, rather big “what if”. What if a psychopathic serial killer with the motive of eradicating evil serial killers became an FBI agent and used access to files to track her evil prey down.

What I liked:
* The plot, pacing, setting, and potential of the story
* Meeting many of the characters that will no doubt show up throughout the series
* The introduction to Beth and her new partner Dax and their get acquainted dance as they begin to work together
* Bear: Belgian Malinois, K-9, rescued by and partners with Dax, highly trained
* The police procedural aspects of the story
* The potential suspects that were offered that might be the killers
* That the Pied Piper serial killer was eventually arrested
* Wanting to know more about the supporting characters
* Wondering how the series will be developed and move forward

What I didn’t like:
* Who and what I was meant not to like
* Wondering how Beth, if really a psychopathic serial killer, would be hired by the FBI and then wondering if perhaps she is NOT then what is she really

Did I like this book? Yes, mostly
Would I read more in this series? I think so, though I did miss book two in the series so maybe not

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for the ARC – This is my honest review.

3-4 Stars

Fabulous book! Kane and Alton are my favorite but this one is so exciting. With the feel of cat and mouse Katz and Styles are so much fun! I have to admit this story was darker than Kane and Alton series but no less interesting. The details are gruesome since the murders involve children. Five huge stars!

Posted on goodreads and amazing

Thanks to netgalley for providing this advanced copy for the purpose of review.

I really enjoyed the story and found it to be unique and compelling. A dark twisty read that kept me guessing and hooked from start to finish.

Dark Angel by D.K Hood Narrated by Lauryn Allman is the first book in the new brilliant Detective Beth Katz series and it was a gripping and unputdownable FBI agent crime thriller that will have you hooked from the beginning till the very end. Detective Beth Katz has a knack of finding serial killers, well she did have a good teacher - her father. So when she joined the FBI she wanted real justice for all her victims!!!
However, she has a dark side and has to keep this side hidden from everyone including her colleagues. After her last case she was she was sent to Rattlesnake Creel and she has to work closely with her new partner Dax Styles. This is going to be tricky.......as Dax is watching her every move and she likes working on her own.

This new book is excellent and full of great twists and turns throughout. A brilliant start to a new series.
The narrator Lauryn Allman was excellent.

Big Thank you to Bookouture Audio and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.