![]() ![]() The damp Portland locale calls to mind the kind of Pacific Northwest darkness associated with Ted Bundy and Kurt Cobain. The suspense builds as the narrative shifts between Sheridan’s new case and his ordeal with Lowell, who in her own way is as memorable a villain as Hannibal Lecter. Covering the crimes is reporter Susan Ward, a smart-alecky punk with pink hair and authority issues. ![]() When someone starts dumping the bodies of teenage girls around Portland, Ore., after soaking them in tubs of bleach, Archie Sheridan, a police detective addicted to pain killers, turns for help to Gretchen Lowell, an imprisoned serial killer who once tortured him (the big scar on his chest “was shaped like a heart”). ) puts a fresh spin on a scenario familiar to fans of Thomas Harris’s The Silence of the Lambs In this outstanding thriller, the first in a new series, Cain ( Confessions of a Teen Sleuth ![]()
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