![]() ![]() How did a peace-and-love child come to unleash the full-on, visceral assault to be found in her new thriller, Heartsick?īut before we explore Cain’s psyche, you need to meet Gretchen Lowell, who, should this series take off as expected, may one day join Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter in our collective anxiety closet.Īs Heartsick opens, the lovely Gretchen is strategically pounding nails into the chest of wide-awake-but-chemically-immobilized Portland Police Detective Archie Sheridan, whose task force has been on the trail of a serial killer for the past decade. At 35, Cain is a seemingly well-adjusted Portland, Oregon, wife and new mother whose humorous weekly column in the Oregonian shows nary a hint of the chill factor behind her blue eyes. The daughter of hippies who spent her formative years in an Iowa commune, Cain’s published work to date consists of an arch Nancy Drew parody ( Confessions of a Teen Sleuth), a hippie-child anthology ( Wild Child: Girlhoods in the Counterculture), a memoir of a road trip with her dying mother ( Dharma Girl), a folk art how-to ( Hippie Handbook) and a send-up of self-help for superheroes ( Does This Cape Make Me Look Fat?). There is absolutely nothing about Chelsea Cain to remotely suggest that she had the year’s scariest novel inside her. ![]()
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