Author: Chelsea Cain

Video Production: Circle of Seven Productions

The Beauty Killer case has exploded because beautiful, serial killer Gretchen Lowell has escaped from prison.  When reporter Susan Ward uncovers the identity of a woman found dead in a Portland Forest Park it turns into another big case for Detective Archie Sheridan. Best-selling author of Heartsick, Chelsea Cain took the crime world by storm, introducing two of the most compelling characters in decades: serial killer Gretchen Lowell and her obsessed pursuer Portland Detective Archie Sheridan

The Scoop:

"In Cain’s capable hands, Gretchen is both a monster and the only person who truly understands Archie’s pain. With its brisk pacing, carefully metered violence and tortured hero, Cain’s sophomore effort will leave readers desperate for more." - Publisher's Weekly (STARRED review)

"It was apparent at the end of Cain's masterful Heartsick (2007) that we hadn't heard the last from either Gretchen Lowell, the most mesmerizing serial killer since a fellow named Hannibal, or Archie Sheridan, the Portland cop whom Gretchen tortured and then freed...The psychosexual interplay between the two is endlessly fascinating and, amazingly, thoroughly believable...it's a sure thing we won't be leaving our seats before the final curtain." - Booklist (STARRED review)

"The twisted love-hate relationship between cop and killer is drawn with a complexity lacking in most genre novels...Cain also unexpectedly injects some sly humor into the backdrop of depravity...But the propulsive narrative is always driven by the dynamic between Archie and Gretchen. As if life were a drug-fueled binge (and Archie has his own pill-popping issues), these two hell-crossed lovers simply can't live without each other...while Sweetheart is certainly satisfying on its own, picking up the paperback of Heartsick and starting at the beginning of this most abject train-wreck of a love story would be a good idea." - The Oregonian

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