Recommendations based on Evil at Heartby Chelsea Cain

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  1. Heartsick

    by Chelsea Cain
    Detective Archie Sheridan is haunted by his past with serial killer Gretchen Lowell, who has escaped from prison and wants to play a deadly game.

    , 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 ... (Goodreads)

  2. Kill You Twice

    by Chelsea Cain
    Detective Archie Sheridan and serial killer Gretchen Lowell reunite to solve a new case. But Gretchen has her own agenda.

    Nothing makes Portland detective Archie Sheridan happier than knowing that Gretchen Lowell—the serial killer whose stunning beauty is belied by the gruesome murders she's committed—is locked away in ... (Barnes & Noble)

  3. Sweetheart

    by Chelsea Cain
    A serial killer is on the loose, and detective Archie Sheridan must work with his captor, the beautiful and twisted Gretchen Lowell, to catch him.

    , Portland detective Archie Sheridan, the former head of the Beauty Killer Task Force, hunted Gretchen Lowell for years before she kidnapped him, tortured him, and then let him go. Now that she is ... (Goodreads)

  4. Down the Darkest Road

    by Tami Hoag
    A mother's search for her missing daughter leads her to a small town with dark secrets and dangerous inhabitants.

    Once upon a time I had the perfect family. I had the perfect husband. I had the perfect children. I had the perfect life in the perfect home. And then, as in all fairy tales, evil came into our ... (Goodreads)

  5. Hold Still

    by Nina LaCour
    A young girl navigates the grief of losing her best friend through photography and self-discovery.

    An arresting story about starting over after a friend’s suicide, from a breakthrough new voice in YA fiction. dear caitlin, there are so many things that i want so badly to tell you but i just can’t. ... (Goodreads)

  6. Shadow Man

    by Cody McFadyen
    FBI agent hunts a serial killer who leaves no trace. As the case unfolds, the agent's own dark past is revealed.

    Once, Special Agent Smoky Barrett hunted serial killers for the FBI. She was one of the best until a madman terrorized her family, killed her husband and daughter, and left her face scarred and her ... (Goodreads)

  7. Shutter Island

    by Dennis Lehane
    A U.S. Marshal investigates a psychiatric hospital on a remote island, uncovering chilling secrets and an unexpected truth.

    In 1954, widower U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, go on a ferry boat to Shutter Island, the home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane, to investigate ... (Wikipedia)

  8. Live to Tell

    by Lisa Gardner
    A gripping thriller following a detective on the hunt for a serial killer.

    A savage crime has rocked a working-class neighbourhood of Boston; four members of a family have been brutally murdered. The father is lying in an intensive care unit, his survival in doubt. He is ... (Goodreads)

  9. Mini Shopaholic

    by Sophie Kinsella
    A young woman confronts her shopping addiction and learns to manage her finances.

    Sophie Kinsella has dazzled readers with her irresistible Shopaholic novels–sensational international bestsellers that have garnered millions of devoted fans and catapulted her into the first rank of ... (Goodreads)

  10. Alone

    by Lisa Gardner
    A detective races against time to uncover the truth behind a missing woman's disappearance.

    Alone . . . Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle. Just across the street, in wealthy Back Bay, Boston, an armed man ... (Goodreads)

  11. Reconstructing Amelia

    by Kimberly McCreight
    A mother unravels the truth behind her teenage daughter's death, uncovering secrets from the past.

    In Reconstructing Amelia , the stunning debut novel from Kimberly McCreight, Kate's in the middle of the biggest meeting of her career when she gets the telephone call from Grace Hall, her daughter’s ... (Goodreads)

  12. Red Dragon

    by Thomas Harris
    A serial killer stalks the night, and a former FBI agent is the only one who can stop him.

    In 1975, Will Graham , a brilliant profiler of the FBI , captured the serial killer Hannibal Lecter . However, Graham suffered serious injuries from the encounter and retired afterwards. Four years ... (Wikipedia)

  13. Finger Lickin' Fifteen

    by Janet Evanovich
    Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter, investigates a series of murders at a barbecue restaurant. Chaos and hilarity ensue.

    Stephanie's friend Lula witnesses the murder (by decapitation ) of celebrity chef Stanley Chipotle. When Chipotle's sponsors offer a $1 million reward for the capture of the killers, Lula decides to ... (Wikipedia)

  14. Weaveworld

    by Clive Barker
    Fictional world hidden within a tapestry, a group of humans protecting it from evil.

    Decades prior to the book's opening, a magical race known as the Seerkind combined all of their powers to create a secret world known as "the Fugue", a carpet into which they wove their most beloved ... (Wikipedia)

  15. The Thirteenth Tale

    by Diane Setterfield
    A mysterious storyteller reveals a dark family secret, transforming the lives of those around her.

    Vida Winter, a famous novelist in England, has evaded journalists' questions about her past, refusing to answer their inquiries and spinning elaborate tales that they later discover to be false. Her ... (Wikipedia)

  16. Fool Me Once

    by Harlan Coben
    A woman's search for justice and the truth behind her husband's death.

    Former special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured by her nanny cam while she is at work: her two-year-old daughter playing with Maya’s husband, Joe—who had been ... (Goodreads)

  17. Intensity

    by Dean Koontz
    Thriller of a young woman's race against time to save the life of an innocent child.

    Chyna Shepherd is a college student visiting the family of her friend, Laura Templeton, for a long weekend. Chyna, who was abused and neglected by her mother as a child, finds that the Templeton ... (Wikipedia)

  18. Code Name Verity

    by Elizabeth Wein
    Two female spies' harrowing mission during WWII and the secrets they discover.

    In 1943 Nazi-occupied France, a British Lysander spy plane crashes in the fictional town of Ormaie. On board are two best friends, a pilot (Maddie, code name: Kittyhawk) and a spy (Julie, code name: ... (Wikipedia)

  19. The 6th Target

    by James Patterson
    A serial killer targets mothers and their children in San Francisco. Detective Lindsay Boxer races against time to stop the killer before it's too late.

    When a horrifying attack leaves one of the four members of the Women's Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind bars before anyone else is hurt. Lindsay Boxer and ... (Wikipedia)

  20. Cause of Death

    by Patricia Cornwell
    A medical examiner and her team investigate a series of murders connected to a mysterious virus.

    It is New Year's Eve, the last day of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War. Dr. Kay Scarpetta plunges into the murky depths of a ship graveyard to recover the very human remains of Ted ... (Goodreads)

  21. 4th of July

    by James Patterson
    An ex-FBI agent takes on a case of a missing girl, uncovering a dangerous conspiracy.

    When Lindsay Boxer gets a lead on a recent murder of two teenagers, she responds to the call and joins Warren Jacobi on a stakeout of a Mercedes. When the car takes off, a high speed chase ends in a ... (Wikipedia)

  22. Butterface

    by Avery Flynn
    A romantic comedy about a man who falls for a woman with a great body but an unattractive face.

    It ... (Barnes & Noble)

  23. Killing Floor

    by Lee Child
    An ex-military cop is thrust into a dangerous criminal underworld to solve the murder of a woman.

    Jack Reacher gets off a Greyhound bus in the town of Margrave, Georgia , because he remembers his brother mentioning that a blues musician named Blind Blake had died there. Much to his surprise, ... (Wikipedia)

  24. Where She Went

    by Gayle Forman
    Adam, a successful musician, reunites with his ex-girlfriend Mia and confronts the pain and heartbreak that tore them apart years ago.

    It's been three years since the devastating accident... three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever. Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid ... (Goodreads)

  25. The Raven Boys

    by Maggie Stiefvater
    Four friends on a supernatural quest to find a magical Welsh king.

    The Raven Cycle follows the story of Blue Sargent, Richard Gansey III, Adam Parrish, Ronan Lynch, and Noah Czerny as they attempt to find the sleeping Welsh King Owain Glendower who is buried on the ... (Wikipedia)

  26. The Angel's Game

    by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    A writer's journey through a supernatural world of secrets and lies.

    The Angel's Game is set in Barcelona in the 1920s and 1930s and follows a young writer, David Martin. In a once-abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, Martín makes his living by writing ... (Wikipedia)

  27. The Dark Divine

    by Bree Despain
    A girl uncovers the dark secrets of her family and the town, including a supernatural curse and a forbidden love.

    Grace Divine, daughter of the local pastor, always knew something terrible happened the night Daniel Kalbi disappeared–the night she found her brother Jude collapsed on the porch, covered in his own ... (Goodreads)

  28. A Stranger Is Watching

    by Mary Higgins Clark
    A young girl is kidnapped and held for ransom, while her father and a reporter race against time to save her.

    The main characters in the novel are Steve Peterson, whose wife Nina was murdered two years before, his six-year-old son Neil, who witnessed the murder, and Sharon Martin, a young journalist who ... (Wikipedia)

  29. Betrayal

    by Tim Tigner
    A CIA agent is betrayed by his own agency and must race against time to clear his name and stop a deadly plot.

    IT STARTED AS AN EXPERIMENT., It ended with an invention., He never intended to use it., But then they betrayed him. Imagine Vince Flynn's TERM LIMITS meets David Baldacci's ABSOLUTE POWER. ... (Barnes & Noble)

  30. The Undead Next Door

    by Kerrelyn Sparks
    A vampire falls in love with a mortal woman, but their relationship is threatened by a group of vampire slayers.

    Three signs that something is very different with your mew man: 1. He sleeps all day . . . which would be annoying except he's so attentive at night. 2. He's attacked by sword-wielding assailants, ... (Barnes & Noble)