EVIL AT HEART, The Crime Scene by Borders

Fast-paced and very creepy, Evil at Heart is a compulsive thriller read. You won't be able to put it down, and once you do, you won't want to turn off the lights!

Gretchen Lowell is cool, composed, smart, and beautiful. She also happens to be a serial killer every bit as scary as Hannibal Lecter. Chelsea Cain introduced Lowell and Archie Sheridan—the cop who is at once after her and in her thrall—in Heartsick, continued the story in last year's Sweetheart, and has now returned with the latest entry, Evil at Heart. Archie and Gretchen have a strange and twisted deal: Gretchen promises to stop killing if Archie promises not to kill himself. Archie has kept that promise, in part by committing himself to the psych ward at the local hospital and refusing to leave. He thinks that she is keeping her end of the bargain too, until a dead body is found with Gretchen's signature heart at the crime scene. Archie emerges from the hospital to track Gretchen down for what he hopes is the last time. He learns that Gretchen has become a media darling and the public has become so fascinated with her that there are even Gretchen Lowell fan clubs. As more murders occur, Archie reluctantly enters this bizarre subculture to see if Gretchen really has broken her promise, or if there is a copycat killer even more terrifying than the original. Fast-paced and very creepy, Evil at Heart is a compulsive thriller read. You won't be able to put it down, and once you do, you won't want to turn off the lights!

by DEANNA P.