A vivid literary style lifts this well above the usual run of suspense novels. The damp Portland locale calls to mind the kind of Pacific Northwest darkness associated with Ted Bundy and Kurt Cobain. The suspense builds as the narrative shifts between Sheridan’s new case and his ordeal with Lowell, who in her own way is as memorable a villain as Hannibal Lecter. Covering the crimes is reporter Susan Ward, a smart-alecky punk with pink hair and authority issues.

When someone starts dumping the bodies of teenage girls around Portland, Ore., after soaking them in tubs of bleach, Archie Sheridan, a police detective addicted to pain killers, turns for help to Gretchen Lowell, an imprisoned serial killer who once tortured him (the big scar on his chest “was shaped like a heart”). In March 2016, Cain started writing a new Marvel Comics series, Mockingbird, the first solo series about the character. Sweetheart and Evil at Heart followed as the second and third in the series, respectively. ) puts a fresh spin on a scenario familiar to fans of Thomas Harris’s The Silence of the Lambs Heartsick - Hard Cover Chelsea Cain: NYT Bestseller. She wrote her first thriller Heartsick in 2004, while pregnant with her daughter. Martin's Minotaur Reprint edition (July 29, 2008) - Language: English - ISBN-10: 0312947151 - ISBN-13: 978-0312947156 HeartSick by Chelsea Cain ‘Archie and Gretchen’ series Book 1 Love hurts.

In this outstanding thriller, the first in a new series, Cain ( Confessions of a Teen Sleuth HeartSick by Chelsea Cain (‘Archie and Gretchen’ series Book 1) Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages - Publisher: St.

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