“Because then you had power over two people.”Īrchie lets his eyes fall on the corpse on the floor. They will never really know what it’s like to be human.” I feel sorry for them because they aren’t alive. What astounds me is that people get up and go to work and come home and they don’t ever kill anyone. A death spark.” She turns and looks at their hands folded together, his wrist still bound by the leather strap. I would feel it right away.” Her breath tickles his earlobe her hand tightens around his.
Intense and beautiful and wretched.” She leans toward him, until he can feel her breath against his cheek, and then brings her lips to his ear.
Her look grows distant as she tries to articulate her thoughts. “Were you there when your children were born?” Gretchen sits in her chair next to his bed, her hand resting on his. It is like they are in a waiting room for death. Sweat clings to his clammy skin and his limbs lie lifeless, but to him, his body feels loose and warm, his blood gelatinous. He doesn’t even mind the heavy smell of decomposition that suffocates everything. He can feel the burning pain of the infections, but he doesn’t mind it. The wounds on his abdomen are red and hard with fluid. This is an addictive read!' Tess Gerritsen 'Move over Thomas Harris, there's a new kid on the block. Just pray you never meet Gretchen' Val McDermid 'What may be the creepiest serial killer ever created. But can Archie finally manage to confront the demons of his past without being consumed by them? 'Dark, distressing and disturbing.
Shadowed by vulnerable young reporter Susan Ward, Archie knows that only one person can help him climb into the mind of this psychopath. So why, after ten days of horrifying physical and mental torture, did she release Detective Archie Sheridan from the brink of death and hand herself in? Two years on, Archie now returns to lead the search for a new killer, whose recent attacks on teenage girls have left the city of Portland reeling. 'Whatever you think this is going to be like,' she whispers, 'it's going to be worse.' When beautiful serial killer Gretchen Lowell captured her last victim - the man in charge of hunting her down - she quickly established who was really in control of the investigation. He thinks he sees a flash of emotion in her eyes.
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