evil at heart by Chelsea Cain; 2009; 308 pages; Minotaur Press, New York, NY; 978-0-312-36848-7; 9/8-9/9

Remember in Alien, how every time you expected something to happen, that darn cat would pop up and then you would relax and THEN something would happen.  I kept expecting Gretchen to appear here and kept getting that darn cat.  Pretty impressive story when you can keep the audiences attention even when one of your main characters is not in a good chunk of the book.

The book starts with Detective Archie Sheridan having voluntarily committed himself to a psych ward.  He is there and Gretchen is everywhere, she has become a celebrity, she is everywhere we would see Jon and Kate.  She torments Archie without actually coming in contact with him.  Archie, Henry and Susan investigate a series or crimes that might or might not have been committed by the Beauty Killer.  Chelsea Cain incorporates a discussion on celebrity and why society focuses so much on serial killers.  This is a thoroughly engrossing book that makes me look forward to the next book in the series.  RRRR

Random sentence from my next book;

After a study has been made of the people who will oppose the intervention, the strategical plan is evolved.