#Chelsea cain wild child serial
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But I wasn't consciously inspired by Silence of the Lambs (or Red Dragon, which is the Harris book it more accurately echoes).

#Chelsea cain wild child serial

Did you anticipate readers to make that connection, or are there other serial series (on paper or screen) that inspired the story of Gretchen and Sheridan? Cain: I thought that the connection to Lecter was inevitable since Heartsick features a detective who visits a jailed serial killer. : As a first-time thriller author, you've got to be elated to see early reviews evoke the legendary Hannibal Lecter. I just finished Sweetheart, and I promise there's a lot more Gretchen to come.

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Plus this is the launch of a series and I thought it would be fun for readers to get to learn more about Gretchen as the series continues. Because if we can peg it on something, we can tell ourselves that they are different than us, that we aren't capable of that kind of brutality. Maybe that's why people spend so much time watching 24-hour news channels that cover the latest horrible domestic murder. The less we know about killers' motives, the scarier they are. I thought there was a really interesting tension in not knowing what had driven this woman to embrace violence so enthusiastically. What is her story? Cain: I purposely didn't reveal Gretchen's past, beyond a few unreliable hints. Even when she actually appears in the jail scenes with Sheridan, she reveals nothing, and yet it's obvious she's anything but one-dimensional.

Daphne Durham Questions for Chelsea : Gretchen Lowell haunts every page of Heartsick. What sets this disturbing novel apart from the rest is its bruised, haunted heart in the form of Detective Sheridan, a bewildered survivor trying to catch a killer and save himself. Cain turns the (nearly played out) Starling/Lecter relationship on its ear: Sheridan must face down his would-be killer to help hunt down another. Gretchen Lowell tortured Detective Archie Sheridan for ten days, then inexplicably let him go and turned herself in.

ReviewChelsea Cain steps into a crowded, blood-soaked genre with Heartsick, a riveting, character-driven novel about a damaged cop and his obsession with the serial killer who.let him live.