The
blistering new serial-killer thriller in Cain's Gretchen Lowell series Since
serial killer Gretchen Lowell went on the run, following Detective Archie Sheridan’s
latest near-fatal encounter with her, the city of Portland has descended into
Beauty Killer hysteria. Even fan sites have sprung up online, where admirers of
Gretchen can congregate to discuss their heroine. When
a spleen is discovered at a local rest stop, Detective Henry Sobol is at first
sceptical it is Gretchen’s work. It is only when he sees the rest stop’s
wall –covered in hundreds of tiny red hearts that Henry realises its time
to contact Archie . . . Archie
Sheridan has spent the last few month’s in the city’s psychiatric hospital,
battling with his addiction to painkillers and his strange obsession with the
woman who tortured him. But
soon he, along with the Beauty Killer taskforce and journalist Susan Ward, find
themselves investigating a new spate of killings –when bodies start to turn
up at local beauty spots, their eye-balls removed. Could this be the work of a
copy-cat? Or has Gretchen really returned? One thing is certain, whoever is behind
these brutal murders, they will do whatever it takes to get to Archie . 
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