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. Named 6th best book of the year (2008) by Stephen King in Entertainment Weekly for Heartsick and Sweetheart Amazon Mystery/Thriller of 2007 for Heartsick. 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. Each new novel in Chelsea Cain’s scorching bestselling series Heartsick, Sweetheart, Evil at Heart, and a new novel coming in 2011is a dark, thrilling, and unparalleled tour de force. Covering the crimes is reporter Susan Ward, a smart-alecky punk with pink hair and authority issues. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley community to discover, request, read, and review. 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”). Heartsick Jessie Stephens 9781760981549 NetGalley NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals.
) puts a fresh spin on a scenario familiar to fans of Thomas Harris’s The Silence of the Lambs In this outstanding thriller, the first in a new series, Cain ( Confessions of a Teen Sleuth
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