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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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| 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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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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Ratings: 3.93 From 35380 Users | 2903 ReviewsComment On Containing Books Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell #1)
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 ofWhatever 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-
A deadly nightmare you can only pray to wake up fromArchie Sheridan is a detective with the Portland PD. During his rookie year as a detective, eleven years ago, hed joined the task force that had been set up to capture the serial killer known as The Beauty Killer. For years, they tried to capture the killer, who evaded them, until a beautiful woman came into the picture. She approached the task force, introduced herself as a psychologist, and baited Archie until she kidnapped him, and tortured
I've heard Heartsick billed as the next Silence of the Lambs, and I think that description is deceptive. Gretchen Lowell, the beautiful serial killer that Detective Archie Sheridan visits in prison every Sunday, isn't consulting on the current case he's working on. Gretchen kidnapped and tortured Archie when he was investigating the trail of bodies she was leaving. Now he visits her once a week as she slowly reveals locations of her victims, and also because he's mentally dependent on her in a
Talk about a psychological thriller! Wow! Archie Sheridan was a detective who was happily married and daddy to a little boy and little girl. He spent a decade trying to find and capture the Beauty Killer who killed 200 people. What a shock he got when instead of a man it turned out to be a gorgeous woman named Gretchen Lowell, a sociopath who manipulated Archie into thinking she could help him solve the murders only to capture him and torture him to death only to revive him. She's in prison now
I highly recommend Heartsick....Yeees! Oh, how i love thee. *evil grin*My fascination with serial killers came back with Heartsick. With a woman as the serial killer made it all the more interesting. I miss watching Dexter. =(Archie and Gretchen have a very complicated relationship. You'd think Archie doesn't want anything to do with her after she abducted, tortured, left him wanting to die, then turn herself over to the police. Chelsea Cain is playing with my emotions, because I felt something
I'm not a big reader of books in the crime genre, but I was in the mood for this sort of thing after bingeing my way through the last few seasons of Dexter on Netflix. Heartsick had one of those gripping and exciting sounding blurbs. The story never quite matched the promise of the blurb, but I did find the plot engaging and the characters the right mix of likeable and intriguing. The main focus of this story was on two characters, though we did get multiple scenes from lesser characters along
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