Heartsick the story,  Chelsea Cain

He can't forget the woman who kidnapped him. For ten days, she tortured him to the brink of death, then mysteriously set him free and turned herself in. Now two years later, he's addicted to pain pills, estranged from his family, and obsessed with her. Gretchen Lowell. She's beautiful. She's brilliant. She's a killer... And she still controls Detective Archie Sheridan-even from behind bars. As Archie trails a new case, he needs Gretechen now in more ways than one - to catch a killer and to release his soul Love Hurts. Sometimes it's torture. Read an Excerpt

Heartsick   Chelsea Cain St. Martin's Minotaur 336 pages $ 23.95 On-Sale September 4, 2007 ISBN: 0-312-36846-1

	Unabridged From Audio Renaissance On-Sale September 4, 2007 $39.95 Run Time: 13 hours, 11 CDs ISBN: 1-4272-0195-1 Listen to a clip
	Narrator Bio: Carolyn McCormick is one of the most familiar faces on television, having appeared on some of the most successful shows of the past twenty years. She is perhaps best known as Law & Order's Dr. Elizabeth Olivet, a character she has been playing on all of the franchise's series since 1991. As an audiobook narrator, McCormick has recorded books by some of today's bestselling authors, like James Patterson, Patricia Cornwell, Harlan Coben, Nora Roberts, and more.

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"HEARTSICK HAS IT ALL: a tortured cop, a fearless and quirky heroine, and what may be the creepiest serial killer ever created. THIS IS AN ADDICTIVE READ!" — Tess Gerritsen

"With Gretchen Lowell, CHELSEA CAIN GIVES US THE MOST COMPELLING, MOST ORIGINAL SERIAL KILLER SINCE HANNIBAL LECTER." — Chuck Palahniuk

"Completely entrancing and totally original—what a read. Between the humanity of Portland cop ARCHIE SHERIDAN and the chilling and twisted design of HIS BEAUTIFUL NEMESIS, GRETCHEN LOWELL, HEARTSICK IS UTTERLY UNFORGETTABLE. Cain is a wonderful—and terrifying—storyteller." — Dominick Dunne

"One of the most original serial-killer thrillers to appear in several years…THIS COULD WELL BE THE THRILLER OF THE YEAR. " — Booklist (Starred Review)

"CAIN CREATES A CLEVERLY CONTORTED THRILLER PLOT and characters with memorable personalities." — Kirkus Review

"In this OUTSTANDING THRILLER, the first in a new series, Cain puts a fresh spin on a scenario familiar to fans of Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs... A VIVID LITERARY STYLE lifts this well above the usual run of suspense novels." — Publisher's Weekly (Starred Review)

"HEARTSICK is a dizzying novel. LURID AND SUSPENSEFUL with well-drawn characters, plenty of GRISLY SURPRISES AND TART DIALOGUE." — The New York Times Book Review

"In her DYNAMITE FIRST THRILLER, HEARTSICK, Chelsea Cain introduces ONE OF THE MOST SEDCUTIVE AND ORIGINAL PSYCHOPATHS since Hannibal Lecter... A- "
— Entertainment Weekly

"Highly flawed but intelligent characters, a unique killer and a setting that complements a grizzly story line make this A NOVEL MYSTERY LOVERS CAN'T AFFORD TO MISS. "
— USA Today

"Cain (Confessions of a Teen Sleuth) has crafted a gory suspense piece that is ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE TO PUT DOWN. " — Library Journal (Starred Review & Editor’s Pick)

"[HEARTSICK IS] WORTH ALL THE HYPE ; like a hip, knowing variation on Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lector series, complete with a brilliant female serial killer, a deeply damaged cop and a hipster journalist with dyed red hair, who seems not unlike the author herself…" — The New York Post

"HEARTSICK is a dark, beautiful beast of a book that comes quietly out of nowhere and devours you…. IN A YEAR OF FULL OF EXCELLETN NOVELS, THIS MAY BE THE BEST OF THEM ALL. " — Bookreporter.com

"Strong characters and plotting make this AN ADDICTIVE, UP-ALL-NIGHT READ. "
— Romantic Times