Night Season - Softcover

“SCALPEL-SHARP...It grabs you like a deadly undertow and doesn’t let go.”
—Parade magazine (Parade Picks)

He captured the Beauty Killer, one of the most deranged serial killers in the country. Now, Portland police detective Archie Sheridan faces a different kind of killer—a brutal rain season that has flooded the Willamette River, claiming several lives. As water levels rise, so does the fear. Because some of the victims didn’t drown—they were murdered.

“Superb... [Cain is] the new queen of serial-killer fiction.”
—Kirkus Reviews

The first body contains a rare poison. Three others prove to be murders as well. And with each gruesome discovery the medical examiner uncovers, Archie begins to realize he has not escaped his nightmares—even with his deadliest enemy behind bars. The flood has washed up old skeletons from the past. And a ruthless new serial killer rules the night...

“HEART-STOPPING.”—Publishers Weekly (a Top 10 Mystery of the Year)

CHELSEA CAIN'S first four novels featuring Archie Sheridan have all been New York Times bestsellers. The first two, Heartsick and Sweetheart, were listed in Stephen King's Top Ten Books of the Year in Entertainment Weekly. Also the author of Confessions of a Teen Sleuth, a parody based on the life of Nancy Drew, and several nonfiction titles, she was born in Iowa, raised in Bellingham, Washington, and now lives with her family in Portland, Oregon.