Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain – Review

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Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain

It was just a year ago that “Heartsick,” Chelsea Cain’s gory tale of a Portland, Ore., detective’s obsession with a beautiful serial killer, turned up on the best-seller lists. Now comes a sequel, “Sweetheart,” in which detective Archie Sheridan still lusts for Gretchen Lowell, who police fear has slaughtered more than 200 innocent souls. The new thriller, like the original, is deep-dish bloody, more or less unputdownable and often maddening. Its plot is a jazzed-up, dumbed-down version of Thomas Harris’ “The Silence of the Lambs,” with Gretchen and Archie standing in for Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling. You either buy the Archie-Gretchen relationship or you don’t, but either way it’s monumentally weird.

Washington Post Book Reviews – SWEETHEART – ArcaMax Publishing.