? Kill You Twice by Chelsea Cain, Minotaur Books, 324 pages, $29.99.
A white lily adorns another crime scene fueling the worry that a serial killer may be at work.
A discovery of a heart shaped incision on a corpse brings the Beauty Killer Task force back as the gruesome connection slowly expands and the fear that the worst kind of killer is at work again.
Detective Archie Sheridan is haunted by the dreams and nightmares of his time held captive by the notorious Beauty Killer.
His body is a latticework of scars from her knife work but the wounds in his head have not healed as well. Even though Gretchen Lowell is locked up in a state mental hospital Sheridan still is drawn to her.
Knowing Lowell is not actually performing the murders doesn't mean she is not involved and as Sheridan looks for clues he discovers information that leads him to Lowell's previously unknown past.
In this fifth novel of her series, author Chelsea Cain builds the tension layer by layer. As the murders continue Sheridan's investigation reveals deeper connections to the killer's past and ultimately to Lowell's first victim.
Cain has created a notorious character in Lowell and Sheridan's role as the damaged detective continues to intrigue as Cain takes him close the edge before reeling him back to safety again.
