Portland detective Archie Sheridan hunted Gretchen Lowell for a decade, and after his last ploy to catch her went spectacularly wrong, remains hospitalized months later. When they last spoke, they entered a detente of sorts--Archie agreed not to kill himself if she agreed not to kill anyone else. But when a new body is found accompanied by Gretchen's trademark heart, all bets are off and Archie is forced back into action. Has the Beauty Killer returned...

At first glance, the crimes appear random. Arson. Theft. Fraud. Murder. But these are more than random crimes. They're moves in an increasingly deadly game. And the one element they have in common: a woman who is gorgeous, clever...and lethal. Elizabeth Avery has a winsome smile and flawless figure, but underneath is a heart of ice. She's a master at manipulating people, convincing strangers to do the unthinkable. And she orchestrates it all without...

Dos años después de haber sido capturado, torturado e, inexplicablemente, liberado por la asesina en serie Gretchen Lowell, una bellísima y sádica mujer a la que llevaba persiguiendo desde hacía diez anños, el detective Archie Sheridan acepta volver a ponerse al mando de un equipo de investigación con objeto de detener a otro psicópata que está asesinando y violando a adolescentes. Adicto a las pastillas y obsesionado con Gretchen, a la que...

Detective Archie Sheridan knows time is running out. Halloween is near, escaped serial killer Gretchen Lowell is on the loose, a DEA agent has been murdered, and journalist Susan Ward wants a favor. Will his only chance be to give his nemesis what she wants?

"No man truly fears a woman. Not even one who is her father's daughter. The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. She had called herself "death," but people called her the devil. Despite the media's chronicling of her tragic circumstances-the childhood spent with a violent father-no one could find sympathy for "the Beautiful Butcher" who had led eighteen men home from bars before viciously...

Damaged detective Archie Sheridan is back home in Portland, Ore., trying to resume a normal life. Archie's ties to serial killer Gretchen Lowell still run deep, even if he's stopped their weekly visits in prison. Meanwhile, reporter Susan Ward is finishing an article accusing a beloved U.S. senator of seducing his children's 14-year-old babysitter a decade earlier. When three bodies are discovered in a local park where Archie's team found Gretchen's...