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| Original Title: | Heartsick |
| ISBN: | 0312368461 (ISBN13: 9780312368463) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell #1 |
| Characters: | Archie Sheridan, Susan Ward, Gretchen Lowell |
| Setting: | Portland, Oregon(United States) Oregon(United States) |
Chelsea Cain
Hardcover | Pages: 326 pages Rating: 3.93 | 35380 Users | 2903 Reviews
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Damaged Portland detective Archie Sheridan spent ten years tracking Gretchen Lowell, a beautiful serial killer, but in the end she was the one who caught him. Two years ago, Gretchen kidnapped Archie and tortured him for ten days, but instead of killing him, she mysteriously decided to let him go. She turned herself in, and now Gretchen has been locked away for the rest of her life, while Archie is in a prison of another kind---addicted to pain pills, unable to return to his old life, powerless to get those ten horrific days off his mind. Archie's a different person, his estranged wife says, and he knows she's right. He continues to visit Gretchen in prison once a week, saying that only he can get her to confess as to the whereabouts of more of her victims, but even he knows the truth---he can't stay away.
When another killer begins snatching teenage girls off the streets of Portland, Archie has to pull himself together enough to lead the new task force investigating the murders. A hungry young newspaper reporter, Susan Ward, begins profiling Archie and the investigation, which sparks a deadly game between Archie, Susan, the new killer, and even Gretchen. They need to catch a killer, and maybe somehow then Archie can free himself from Gretchen, once and for all. Either way, Heartsick makes for one of the most extraordinary suspense debuts in recent memory.
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| Title | : | Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell #1) |
| Author | : | Chelsea Cain |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 326 pages |
| Published | : | September 4th 2007 by Minotaur Books (first published 2007) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Thriller. Fiction. Crime. Suspense. Horror. Mystery Thriller |
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Serial killer thrillers are a dime a dozen anymore, but this one added just enough of a twist to make it halfway interesting. It will also make you cringe slightly whenever you have to handle a bottle of drain cleaner for a while after reading.The main mystery is pretty conventional with a quirky female reporter getting pulled into a police investigation. If that's all there was too it, then it wouldn't be worth reading.However, the more interesting portion revolves around the relationshipIve seen reviews of this novel ranging from calling it "the thriller of the year" to "not a very suspenseful read". For me, both seemed to paradoxically be true. At its core, it is a decent psychological thriller centering around Detective Archie Sheridan who was captured by a female serial killer, and is forced back onto the job two years afterwards to catch another serial killer. Cain does not follow a strict chronological sequence in her storytelling, and there are two major stories at play
When I started reading Chelsea Cain's Heartsick I didn't really expect to enjoy it. Cain isn't a fantastic writer, she gets very caught up in over describing her characters, her environment and everything in between. I'm in great agreement with Stephen King who wrote in his book "On Writing" that the building of a scene in a book is collaborative and that if an author describes every detail in that scene they take away from the reader and their role in the collaboration. Cain uses description as
This is my second go around with this series and this time I'm reading it in its proper order. I started this series years ago but for some reason or another I never finished it, so I've made it my mission to read the whole series before the end of summer. This is easier said then done because I have a jam packed summer reading list. The first time I read this series I as I mentioned earlier read it out of order, I actually bought the second book Sweetheart and was halfway through it before it
Whatever you think this is going to be like," she whispers, "it's going to be worse. This surprised me alittle due to the fact on the front cover it states 'Up there in the same league as Silence of the Lambs' The main story was a little boring/slow at times, but the relationship between serial killer Gretchen Lowell and detective Archie Sheridan was interesting enough to keep me reading. This is read in different perspectives, generally Archie or Susans with a few chapters to separate the two-
This is one of those few times where I've come away from a book feeling a bit, well, unsure. I can't say I really loved the book but equally I can't say I hated it too. For me it was more of a compelling book. What I mean is that it was like witnessing a terrible event, e.g. a car crash, you know you shouldn't be looking but you can't help yourself. Two stories running parallel to each other. On the one hand you have a female serial killer who is now incarcerated still having a relationship of
I have to say I found a new author, Chelsea Cain. She writes so well. This book is definately different than other mysteries. The characters are very well developed. I was not expecting the outcome of what the book was about. This surely isn't for the faint of heart. It has to do with serial killers.Gretchen Lowell is a killer. She tortures her victims then kills them. She also has victims killing others, she had several of them. Archie Sheridan becomes one of her victims. She tortures him for
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