Found on a train so decided to give it a new home.

“Heartsick” is not a particularly original concept and in many ways plays homage to the likes of “The Silence of the Lambs” which similarly uses one psycho killer to catch another. However unlike Hannibal Lecter in SoL Gretchen’s bearing on Archie’s new case is relatively peripheral. Unlike Hannibal Gretchen is not so culturally aware. Whereas Hannibal uses things like art and literature to get at Clarice Darling, Gretchen uses brute force and drain cleaner to penetrate Archie's defences. Archie returns to her purely because Gretchen is beautiful.

“She’s a psychopath,” protests one of Archie’s female colleagues, unaffected by a woman’s wiles, when she catches him sneaking off to visit Gretchen. “Yeah,” he agrees, “but she’s my psychopath.”

That said and done the characters are well drawn and there are plenty of grisly surprises to compel the reader to want to keep turning the page as Cain cleverly weaves the two narratives together. . This is the first book in a series with the same protagonists and I will certainly be looking out for more of them. Very enjoyable.

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