Sweetheart

By Chelsea Cain

Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Sweetheart is a 2008 thriller by Chelsea Cain, set in Portland, Oregon. It is the second novel in her series about detective Archie Sheridan and the serial killer Gretchen Lowell, following Heartsick. Archie has returned to his ex-wife and children and stopped his weekly prison visits to Gretchen, the Beauty Killer who once tortured him. When a body turns up in Forest Park, where Gretchen's first victim was found years earlier, the past returns. Then Gretchen escapes from prison, and Archie must hunt her again.

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