Heartsick
By Chelsea Cain
(Minotaur Books, Paperback, 9780312657819, 336pp.)
Publication Date: July 20, 2010
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover, Mass Market Paperback, Mass Market Paperback, Paperback
Categories: Psychological, Thrillers
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In Chelsea Cain’s bestselling series debut, Portland detective Archie Sheridan has spent years tracking Gretchen Lowell, a beautiful serial killer. In the end she was the one who caught him, but after torturing him for days she mysteriously let him go and turned herself in. Since then the she has been locked up, leaving Archie damaged but alive in a prison of another kind—addicted to pain pills, unable to return to his old life, powerless to get those ten horrific days or Gretchen off his mind.
When another killer begins snatching teenage girls off the streets, Archie has to pull himself together to head up a new task force, but even then he can’t stop him without getting information from Gretchen—an encounter that may destroy him.
With Susan Ward, a hungry young newspaper reporter, profiling Archie and his team, Archie, the killer, and Gretchen enter into a dark and deadly game. Each novel in Chelsea Cain’s scorching series leaves readers wanting more of the twisted and destructive relationship introduced in Heartsick.
Chelsea Cain lived the first few years of her life on an Iowa commune, then grew up in Bellingham, Washington. Her first three novels featuring Archie, Gretchen, and Susan—including Heartsick—have all been New York Times bestsellers. Also the author of Confessions of a Teen Sleuth, a parody of Nancy Drew, and several nonfiction titles, she lives in Portland, Oregon.
Praise for Heartsick
“One of the most seductive and original psychopaths since Hannibal Lecter.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“Heartsick is a dizzying novel. Lurid and suspenseful with well-drawn characters, plenty of grisly surprises, and tart dialogue, it delivers.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“A distinctive and disturbing novel that blurs the lines between suspense fiction and psychological suspense.”
—Chicago Tribune
“Steamy and perverse.”
—The New York Times
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