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Chelsea Cain
Chelsea Snow Cain was born February 5, 1972 in Iowa City, Iowa, to Mary Cain and Larry Schmidt.
After working as a Creative Director at a PR firm in Portland for several years, Chelsea began writing humor books in her spare time, including The Hippie Handbook: How to Tie-Dye a T-Shirt, Flash a Peace Sign, and Other Essential Skills for the Carefree Life (Chronicle Books, 2004), Confessions of a Teen Sleuth (Bloomsbury, 2005), and Does this Cape Make Me Look Fat? Pop-Psychology for Superheroes (Chronicle Books, 2006), which Chelsea co-wrote with her husband. Chelsea also composed a weekly column for Portland's alternative newspaper, The Portland Mercury, and started contributing to Portland's major daily, The Oregonian in 2003 when she left marketing behind to focus on writing full-time. Her last column with The Oregonian was posted on December 28, 2008.
She wrote her first thriller Heartsick in 2004, while pregnant with her daughter. It was published on September 4, 2007 and was an instant New York Times Bestseller. Its follow-up Sweetheart was published on September 2, 2008, also an immediate New York Times Bestseller. The third in the series, Evil at Heart, was released in bookstores in September, 2009.
Chelsea is married to Marc Mohan, a video store owner and film reviewer for The Oregonian. They have one daughter, Eliza.
Chelsea and her family currently reside in Portland, Oregon.
Available Books by Chelsea Cain
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The Night Season
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330535625
RRP: $19.99
A city on flood alert, a killer on the rampage.
Heavy rains have burst the banks of the Willamette River; several people have died in the furiously rising waters ... but the latest victim didn't drown: She was killed before she went into the water. Soon, other victims are found, and Police Detective Archie Sheridan realizes that Portland has a new serial killer on its hands.
Reporter Susan W...
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Evil at Heart
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330518291
RRP: $19.99
Since serial killer Gretchen Lowell went on the run, following Detective Archie Sheridan's latest near-fatal encounter with her, the city of Portland has descended into Beauty Killer hysteria. Even fan sites have sprung up online, where admirers of Gretchen can congregate to discuss their heroine.
When a spleen is discovered at a local rest stop, Detective Henry Sobol is at first sceptical it...
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Evil at Heart
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781250004123
RRP: $10.95
Hospitalized after his latest effort to catch serial killer Gretchen Lowell goes wrong, detective Archie Sheridan forges a stalemate agreement to keep Gretchen from committing more murders, a pact that is compromised by one of Gretchen's zealous devotees. Reprint....
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The Night Season
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312619770
RRP: $10.95
As a devastating flood inundates the city, Portland detective Archie Sheridan discovers that a handful of drowning victims were actually poisoned, while reporter Susan Ward investigates the discovery of a decades-old skeleton....
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Evil at Heart
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312572631
RRP: $6.95
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Heartsick
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312572617
RRP: $6.95
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Sweetheart
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312572624
RRP: $6.95
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The Night Season
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780312619763
RRP: $32.95
River levels are high in Portland when a woman walking her dog comes across the skeleton of a young black man, murdered over fifty years ago. Journalist, Susan Ward investigates. Meanwhile, Detective Archie Sheridan and his team have turned their attention to child-killer Ryan Motley, trained by the notorious Gretchen Lowell. The task force must pursue a series of mysterious clues from Gretchen, o...
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Evil at Heart
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312946784
RRP: $19.95
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Heartsick
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312657819
RRP: $19.95
When a serial killer begins abducting teenage girls, Portland detective Archie Sheridan must face his demons to solve the case, but in order to stop the killer he must confront Gretchen Lowell, who had tortured him years before....
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Sweetheart
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312662394
RRP: $19.95
Portland detective Archie Sheridan's investigation into the murder of a young woman is compromised by his continuing obsession with serial murderer Gretchen Lowell, the so-called Beauty Killer, who has escaped from prison....
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Evil at Heart
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780312368487
RRP: $32.95
Portland detective Archie Sheridan hunted Gretchen Lowell for a decade, and after his last ploy to catch her went spectacularly wrong, remains hospitalized months later. When they last spoke, they entered a detente of sorts--Archie agreed not to kill himself if she agreed not to kill anyone else. But when a new body is found accompanied by Gretchen's trademark heart, all bets are off and Archi...
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Heartsick
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312947156
RRP: $10.95
Addicted to pain killers and still bound to Gretchen Lowell, the beautiful serial killer who had abducted and tortured him before turning herself in, even after she is incarcerated for her crimes, Portland detective Archie Sheridan is caught in another deadly duel with a vicious murderer targeting teenage girls, ambitious reporter Susan Ward, and Gretchen herself. Reprint....
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Heartsick
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780312368463
RRP: $30.95
Addicted to painkillers and still bound to Gretchen Lowell, the beautiful serial killer who had abducted and tortured him before turning herself in, Portland detective Archie Sheridan is caught in another deadly duel with a murderer targeting teenage girls....
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Evil at Heart
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781410421692
RRP: $56.95
Hospitalized after his latest effort to catch serial killer Gretchen Lowell goes wrong, detective Archie Sheridan forges a stalemate agreement to keep Gretchen from committing more murders, a pact that is compromised by one of Gretchen's zealous devotees. (Suspense). By the author of Heartsick. ...
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Sweetheart
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312943837
RRP: $10.95
In the sequel to Heartsick, Portland detective Archie Sheridan's investigation into the murder of a young woman, whose body is discovered in Portland's Forest Park, is compromised by his continuing obsession with serial murderer Gretchen Lowell, the so-called Beauty Killer, who has escaped from prison, especially since he is probably the only one who can catch her. A best-seller. Reprint....
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The Chronology of Water
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780979018831
RRP: $20.95
The author recounts how she lost a promising career as a swimmer to addiction, turned to high-risk sexual activities, and eventually got her life back through her writing and teaching and her new family....
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The Night Season
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781410437792
RRP: $58.95
River levels are high in Portland when a woman walking her dog comes across the skeleton of a young black man, murdered over fifty years ago. Journalist, Susan Ward investigates. Meanwhile, Detective Archie Sheridan and his team have turned their attention to child-killer Ryan Motley, trained by the notorious Gretchen Lowell. The task force must pursue a series of mysterious clues from Gretchen, o...
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Wild Child
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781580050319
RRP: $20.95
Children who endured tofu, communes, nudism, and political protests growing up with hippie parents recall their unusual childhoods in this unique collection of alternative voices. Original. Tour....
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Evil at Heart
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780230015913
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Evil at Heart
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780230710863
A college student is found dead, floating in a rowing boat on a lake, a gaping wound in his abdomen. The autopsy reveals that his spleen was removed while he was still alive.
A media frenzy ensues, the press reaching the same conclusion as the local law enforcement: Gretchen Lowell, the Beauty Killer, still at large following her prison escape, is back and she's killing again.
But Detective ...
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Heartsick
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780230016033
"He thinks he sees a flash of emotion in her eyes. Sympathy? Then it's gone. 'Whatever you think this is going to be like,' she whispers, 'it's going to be worse.'"
When beautiful serial killer Gretchen Lowell captured her last victim the very detective who was trying to hunt her down she quickly established who was really in control of the investigation. So wh...
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Heartsick
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781594132742
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Night Season
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780230746664
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Sweetheart
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780230704084
"'Turn yourself in,' Archie said. He pressed the fingers of one hand into his right temple, trying to slow the pulse of blood that beat against his skin. Susan was taking notes, recording everything. He didn't care. 'I'll do anything you want,' he said. 'You know what I want.' She let that linger in the air between them. 'Tell me,' he said. 'I want y...
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Sweetheart
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780312368470
Portland detective Archie Sheridan's investigation into the murder of a young woman is compromised by his continuing obsession with serial murderer Gretchen Lowell, the so-called Beauty Killer, who has escaped from prison....
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Sweetheart
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781410408839
Portland detective Archie Sheridan's investigation into the murder of a young woman is compromised by his continuing obsession with serial murderer Gretchen Lowell, the so-called Beauty Killer, who has escaped from prison....
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The Night Season
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780230746145
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