The Hungarian noblewoman, Elizabeth Báthory's unspeakable crimes against her people are being reenacted in Paris and across the French countryside, and unless Special Agent Jeannette LaFarge and recent recruit Detective Daniel Murray act quickly, the upcoming grape harvest promises to yield blood instead of wine.

Chelsea Cain's novels featuring Detective Archie Sheridan and serial killer Gretchen Lowell have captivated fans through two nail-biting entries, Heartsick and Sweetheart, both multi-week best - sellers in The New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly. Here Gretchen is still on the loose and Archie is still hospitalized after his ploy to catch her went spectacularly wrong. They've entered a detente of sorts—Archie

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Claire, an aspiring artist and part-time serial killer, realizes someone is watching her-someone who knows about her murderous hobby-and she, while attending a weekly bereavement support group after losing her father, must finish off her blackmailer before they reveal all.

Elizabeth Avery is a stunningly beautiful woman, but her perfectly managed exterior hides the ice cold heart of a killer. She ingeniously manipulates everyone who crosses her path to do exactly as she wishes, from crime reporter Cassidy Shaw, who thinks Elizabeth is her new best friend, to a shy young man Elizabeth persuades to kill for her. Can she be stopped before she reaches her unthinkable, ultimate end-game?

Gretchen Lowell, the world's most beautiful serial killer, has escaped from prison in Chelsea Cain's next unpredictable, edge-of-your-seat thriller, Sweetheart.
With Heartsick, Chelsea Cain took the crime world by storm, introducing two of the most compelling characters in decades: serial killer Gretchen Lowell and her obsessed pursuer Portland Detective Archie Sheridan. The book spent four weeks on the New York Times

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Damaged Portland detective Archie Sheridan spent ten years tracking Gretchen Lowell, a beautiful serial killer, but in the end she was the one who caught him. Two years ago, Gretchen kidnapped Archie and tortured him for ten days, but instead of killing him, she mysteriously decided to let him go. She turned herself in, and now Gretchen has been locked away for the rest of her life, while Archie is in a prison of another kind—-addicted to

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"When you live for vengeance, no transgression is too small. Life is uneventful for an average girl in a sleepy Quebec town. She loves animals, long nature walks, and her parents -- it's a normal childhood. Then a terrible accident leads her to discover that nothing compares to the thrill of violent retribution. Of Vengeance portrays the evolution of an innocuous girl next door into a brilliant, cold-blooded killer, whose painstaking preparation makes...

"The chilling true story of a female serial killer; She looked like everyone's grandmother; white-haired, plump, bespectacled, and kindly. Only Dorothea Montalvo Puente's eyes, black and hard behind her glasses, hinted at the evil that lurked within. She was the rarest of murderers, a female serial killer--probably the most cold-blooded ever recorded in the annals of crime. This shocking story of the gruesome murder of seven men for profit was written...

1611 Hungary. Countess Erzsébet Báthory (aka the Blood Countess), being walled into a castle tower as punishment for the murder of dozens of women and girls, begins writing her life story as an exposé of the many betrayals that have brought about this--as she sees it--outrageous and unjust imprisonment.