Even though seductive serial killer Gretchen Lowell is currently locked up in a mental institution, she still finds ways to manipulate police detective Archie Sheridan. Now she is having her shrink send urgent messages to Archie concerning a horrific murder case he's investigating.
At first, Archie refuses the calls, but when it becomes apparent Gretchen does know something that could help the case, Archie finds he must face this demon one more time. He finds a woman changed from what he remembers; the drugs she's on to control her are taking their toll on her beauty, as well as her health. Even though he doesn't want to believe the story she tells him, another murder has him taking the information seriously.
Chelsea Cain delves more into Gretchen's childhood background in KILL YOU TWICE, letting readers see more of why she's the way she is today. As always, the murderous chaos is sinister and significant involving the characters we've come to know well over the past four books in this series. The ending of KILL YOU TWICE begs for another book, so I'm sure we'll see more of Archie and Gretchen in the future -- here's hoping anyway.
Archie Sheridan should be healing—mentally and
physically—
from his past run-ins with serial killer Gretchen Lowell.
But while he seems to be making some progress, he's just
as haunted as the day she let him go. He tries to focus on
his work: a cyclist has come across a corpse in Mount
Tabor Park on the eastern side of Portland. The man was
gagged and hanging by his wrists from a tree, his torso
skinned. It is the brutal work of a killer bold enough to
torture his victim for hours on a sunny summer morning in
a big public park.
The investigation isn't far along before Archie gets a
call from an unlikely source. In fact, after months of
ignoring calls from a doctor at the mental hospital where
Gretchen is supposed to be locked away forever, Archie is
surprised to hear that she claims to have inside knowledge
about the new investigation, and finally agrees to see her
face-to-face. Archie is sure she is bluffing just to get
close to him, but he can't take the chance of losing his
only lead.
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