Sweetheart

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Chapter 1

Forest Park was pretty in the summer. Portland’s ash sky was barely visible behind a canopy of aspens, hemlock, cedars, and maples that filtered the light to a shimmering pale green. A light breeze tickled the leaves. Morning glories and ivy crept up the mossy tree trunks and strangled the blackberry bushes and ferns, a mass of crawling vines that piled up waist- high on either side of the packed dirt path. The creek hummed and churned, birds chirped. It was all very lovely, very Walden, except for the corpse.

The woman had been dead awhile.

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The third book trailer for author Chelsea Cain's murder mystery novel, Sweetheart.

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Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain--Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Chelsea Cain's bestselling thriller novel Sweetheart, narrated by Carolyn McCormick. 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.

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Praise for Sweetheart

“Superb...With its brisk pacing, carefully metered violence and tortured hero, Cain’s sophomore effort will leave readers desperate for more.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Cain’s debut Heartsick had even the most jaded thriller fans sleeping with the lights on. She tells an equally frightening story in Sweetheart.”—USA Today

“Profoundly creepy and disturbing.”—The Boston Globe

“A sharp psychological inquiry into evil and obsession, as well as a deeply unhealthy love story.”—The Seattle Times

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About the Author

Chelsea Cain

Chelsea Cain is the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Season, Evil at Heart, and Heartsick. Both Heartsick and Sweetheart were listed in Stephen King’s Top Ten Books of the Year in Entertainment Weekly. Chelsea lived the first few years of her life on an Iowa commune, then grew up in Bellingham, WA, where the infamous Green River killer was “the boogieman” of her youth. The true story of the Green River killer’s capture was the inspiration for the story of Gretchen and Archie. Cain lives in Portland with her husband and daughter.

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