Titles In This Set Sweetheart Heartsick Sweetheart Chelsea Cains debut Heartsick created quite a stir with its heady mix of familiar serial killer motifs & some striking innovations notably the fact that her utterly ruthless murderer was a woman the beautiful Gretchen Lowell Cain is very much a member of the cadre of female crime writers who match their male counterparts in extreme unsparing violence in other words as her new book Sweetheart comprehensively proves this is a young American writer in the bloody tradition of Tess Gerritsen & Karin Slaughter Heartsick He thinks he sees a flash of emotion in her eyes Sympathy Then its gone Whatever you think this is going to be like she whispers its going to be worse When beautiful serial killer Gretchen Lowell captured her last victim the man in charge of hunting her down she quickly established who was really in control of the investigation So why after ten days of horrifying physical & mental torture did she release Detective Archie Sheridan from the brink of death & hand herself in