Chelsea Cain's Sweet Heart

Chelsea Cain's Sweet Heart

Plot: Portland detective Archie Sheridan, the former head of the Beauty Killer Task Force, hunted Gretchen Lowell for years before she kidnapped him, tortured him, and then let him go. Now that she is behind bars, Archie is finally piecing his life back together. But no matter how hard Archie tries, he just can’t stop thinking about Gretchen…When the body of a young woman is discovered in Forest Park, Archie is reminded of the first corpse he discovered there a decade ago: it turned out to be the Beauty Killer’s first victim, and Archie’s first case. Then, the unthinkable happen: Gretchen escapes from prison, and once the news breaks, all of Portland goes on high alert. Archie knows he’s the only one who can capture Gretchen - and now he has a plan. Even if it means becoming her last victim…

My Review and Thoughts:

Here we go with part 2 of this amazing in your face no hold’s bar story. Another trip into the life and recovery of detective Archie Sheridan and his screwed up past ordeal with the serial killer Gretchen. This is another page turner. This series is not afraid at all to step over the boundaries most writers never dare to do.

This book like the first is a true un-relenting escape into the very nature and fabric of insanity and the horror of murder with pleasure. This is a very creepy book…a psychological orgy of human evil. A twisted obsessed love story of torture, pain and violence woven into it’s basis.

Archie is the victim, Gretchen is the victimizer. Sweetheart is a pulse pounding twisted ride of murder and the reality of a guilty pleasure in wanting the book not to end. A fresh new book of gore twisted romance and most of all serial killing which bring this book alive so that the reader finds each page like a high that never comes down.

Chelsea Cain is a master. She is distinctive in creating her main players as thought provoking and compelling sentence after sentence. This book made me anxious. Sweaty. Tense. I felt giddy in away as the relationship of victim and serial killer play out in graphic detail to capture a down to earth emotional roller coaster of sanity and insanity.

This series of books would make a great crime TV drama for HBO or Showtime or a series of movies. Another brilliant way to create a convincing story that lingers in the readers mind. Susan Ward the reporter Archie the detective, Gretchen the serial killer woven around mystery and suspense and piles of bodies. 

Edge of your action and spell binding excitement that never lets up. A truly disturbing and deadly love triangle between detective and serial killer it gets under your skin and gives you goose bumps and pure chills that don’t let up.

The plot is thicker and more dramatic this time around from a scandal of a mayor to a body dump all the way to the main serial killer star up to her tricks again tagging along in painful pleasure filled bliss poor. Also it’s Archie and his twisted haunted disturbing mind. Just when you think poor detective Archie is getting a little better, his deranged poor screwed up puppy dog leashed obsession pulls and tugs at him making him once again into the begging dog for a bone reality as Gretchen pulls the leash tighter and tighter.