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. 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. Covering the crimes is reporter Susan Ward, a smart-alecky punk with pink hair and authority issues. 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”). ) puts a fresh spin on a scenario familiar to fans of Thomas Harris’s The Silence of the Lambs Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character DeathĪrchie Sheridan is a ticking bomb, and it's time for him to go off.In this outstanding thriller, the first in a new series, Cain ( Confessions of a Teen Sleuth.

I generally DON'T acknowledge the Book 7 excerpts here if you wanna see my take on those it's here (unfinished, sorry, but I'll probably get around to it before the actual book is published lol): Language: English Words: 43,560 Chapters: 31/31 Collections: 1 Kudos: 5 Bookmarks: 1 Hits: 417įor Devka Fandoms: Gretchen Lowell Series - Chelsea Cain, Archie Sheridan and Gretchen Lowell Series, Beauty Killer Series I generally write post-Book 6, with everything canon-compliant except that I refuse to let Jack Reynolds be dead, he's way too good of a complication to just let him be dead. Even though whump is the focus here there is going to be a lot of sexual content. I don't have a 'plan,' I'm just going to look at the prompts each day and see what they spark! A couple things to know - This is a VERY SEXUAL PAIRING. These will mostly be standalone drabbles/scenes, but some of them will probably end up connecting with each other.

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Sweetheart and Evil at Heart followed as the second and third in the series, respectively. Language: English Words: 21,111 Chapters: 10/? Kudos: 1 Hits: 87 She wrote her first thriller Heartsick in 2004, while pregnant with her daughter.

But it can't all be glitz and galas - Gretchen still needs to get her murder fix, and sooner or later, someone's going to put two and two together and start wondering if the newly imported heiress and her husband are more than they seem.

Archie Sheridan (Gretchen Lowell Series)Īrchie and Gretchen run away together and set themselves up with a new life as a high society couple in Chicago.

Spaceboy Fandoms: Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell Series - Chelsea Cain

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