Dead Sleep (Om) - Softcover

Greg Iles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451205588 ISBN 13: 9780451205582

Publisher: Penguin, 2002

Synopsis

When photojournalist Jordan Glass chances upon a painting which is part of an exhibition entitled 'Nude Women in Repose' by an unknown artist in the Hong Tsin museum in Hong Kong, she gets a rude shock. The face of the woman in the painting is that of Jordan's twin sister, Jane, who vanished without trace from her home in New Orleans thirteen months before. Eleven women altogether have disappeared - and the other paintings in the exhibition are of those missing women. Jordan teams up with world-renowned forensic psychologist, Dr Arthur Lenz, and FBI special agent, John Kaiser to track down the artist and get to the bottom of the mystery. But there are many curious twists and unpleasant surprises in store before the shocking truth is finally revealed.

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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: Penguin
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0451205588
• ISBN 13: 9780451205582
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464