Sweetheart - Chelsea Cain

as a sequel to her previous book 'heart sick', this novel is fantastic. chelsea cain has a seriously warped imagination. i love the way that she portrays gretchen in this novel because it contrasts the controlling image of the last. in this novel gretchen almost needs archie to be with her and will do anything, e.g. overdose him on painkillers and set fire to a house, to keep him. this book is twisted, literal and really really good. after reading 'heart sick' i was counting down the days until this one came out. at about £5 in paperback, this is quite an expensive book but so so so worth it, for a head trip and a truly screwed up love story that ends with archie in a ...  Read the complete review

In this sequel to 'Heartsick', though back living with his ex-wife, Archie Sheridan is still addicted to painkillers, obsessed by Gretchen Lowell and she continues playing with his mind. The strange, even warped relationship between Archie and Gretchen was centremost to the first book and this theme continues with the sequel. In this novel Gretchen escapes whilst being transferred to another prison and the way the author depicts her closing in on Archies children is terrifying and compelling reading. This is more or less a direct continuation of 'Heartsick'. Archie and his partner Henry are investigating two bodies found at the same location as ...  Read the complete review

SWEETHEART is the shortly-awaited sequel to CAIN's bestselling debut, HEART SICK, and once again features troubled Detective Archie Sheridan as he tries to adjust to his life in the months following the events of the last novel. He still maintains an addiction to prescription drugs despite the fact that they are slowly killing him but has completely cut off all contact with the serial killer, Gretchen Lowell, the woman who nearly ended his life before turning herself in, and is back with his wife trying to rebuild their fragmented relationship. Archie and Gretchen had a very macabre deal; he would continue to visit her in prison in the most disturbing case of Stockholm ...  Read the complete review