Dead Sleep - Hardcover

Iles, Greg

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399147357 ISBN 13: 9780399147357

Publisher: Putnam Pub Group, 2001

Synopsis

A mysterious series of paintings in a Hong Kong art museum, including one featuring a woman who bears a striking resemblance to her, draws photojournalist Jordan Glass into a painful search for the murderer of her twin sister, killed one year earlier, as she becomes embroiled in a deadly duel with the anonymous killer who knows all too much about her. 100,000 first printing.

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Review:

With his new thiller Dead Sleep, Greg Iles lives up to the promise of his previous bestseller 24 Hours by showcasing his ability to deliver top-level suspense as well as multi-dimensional characterisation. When Jordan Glass, a world-renowned photojournalist, happens on an exhibit of a series of paintings known as "The Sleeping Women", she is stunned to discover that one of the models--a nude who, like the other women in the paintings, looks dead rather than asleep--is her mirror image. But Jordan knows the face in the painting isn't her; it's her twin sister Jane, who disappeared from her New Orleans home more than a year ago and is presumed to have been murdered by a serial killer who's been snatching women off the streets of the Crescent City for at least that long. None of the bodies of the missing women have turned up, but their faces match the models in the other Sleeping Women paintings. A veteran FBI agent named John Kaiser brings Jordan into the Bureau's hunt for the anonymous artist, who may also know something about the disappearance of Jordan's father in Vietnam almost 30 years before.

This is a taut, well-crafted thriller with a nice secondary love story that's woven into the action without slowing it down. Jordan is a fascinating, many-sided character who's a little too tough to be wholly believable, but that's a minor quibble. While winning well-deserved new fans for Iles, Dead Sleep will keep his readers awake until the very last page. --Jane Adams, Amazon.com

Review:

'Greg Iles is a phenomenal writer' (Independent on Sunday )

'This one bounds along keeping you turning the pages long after sleep beckons' (Independent on Sunday )

'A potent thriller' (New York Times Book Review 20010819)

'A chunky holiday read' (FHM Magazine 20010819)

'Another top notch tale of suspense from Iles' (Kirkus Reviews 20010819)

"A narrative as ingenious as it is bizarre" (New York Times Book Review 20010819)

"Iles continues to amaze with his incredible range." (Publishers Weekly on Dead Sleep 20010611)

"Atmospheric, sexy and provocative." (Booklist on Dead Sleep 20010106)

'Another page turner' (Sheffield Telegraph 20010810)

'A superb plot, with unexpected twists and turns. Iles just gets better and better' (Yorkshire Evening Post 20011008)

'A stunnning opening to a complex thriller. Bottom line: Cancel Bedtime. A Beach Book of the Week.' (People Magazine 20011008)

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0399147357
• ISBN 13: 9780399147357
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352