EVIL AT HEART

The blistering new serial-killer thriller in Cain's Gretchen Lowell series Since serial killer Gretchen Lowell went on the run, following DetectiveArchie Sheridan's latest near-fatal encounter with her, the city ofPortland has descended into Beauty Killer hysteria. Even fan sites havesprung up online, where admirers of Gretchen can congregate to discusstheir heroine. When a spleen is discovered at a local rest stop,Detective Henry Sobol is at first sceptical it is Gretchen's work. It isonly when he sees the rest stop's wall -covered in hundreds of tiny redhearts that Henry realises its time to contact Archie . . . Archie Sheridanhas spent the last few month's in the city's psychiatric hospital, battlingwith his addiction to painkillers and his strange obsession with the womanwho tortured him. But soon he, along with the Beauty Killer taskforce andjournalist Susan Ward, find themselves investigating a new spate ofkillings -when bodies start to turn up at local beauty spots, theireye-balls removed. Could this be the work of a copy-cat? Or has Gretchenreally returned? One thing is certain, whoever is behind these brutalmurders, they will do whatever it takes to get to Archie . . .