Dead Sleep: A Suspense Thriller - Softcover

Iles, Greg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451206525 ISBN 13: 9780451206527

Publisher: Berkley Books, 2002

Synopsis

A woman comes face-to-face with a serial killer who glorifies the art of death in this "ingenious"* thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Penn Cage series.

They are called "The Sleeping Women." A series of unsettling paintings in which the nude female subjects appear to be not asleep, but dead. Photojournalist Jordan Glass has another reason to find the paintings disturbing...The face on one of the nudes is her own--or perhaps the face of her twin sister, who disappeared and is still missing. At the urging of the FBI, Jordan becomes both hunter and hunted in a search for the anonymous artist--an obsessed killer who seems to know more about Jordan and her family than she is prepared to face...

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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:

"A potent thriller."--*The New York Times

"Filled with so much action that it deserves to be read in one long and satisfying session."--Chicago Tribune

"Perfectly calibrated suspense...Iles keeps the reader guessing right up to the double surprise ending, delivering the perfect final payoff."--Publishers Weekly

"Gripping, suspensful, exciting."--Library Journal

"Iles deftly sets up his plot, introducing a string of memorable characters and taking the reader on a ride that's as fast as any techno-thriller and as well thought out as an Agatha Christie mystery...Grade A."--Rocky Mountain News

"Atmospheric, sexy, and provocative in its depiction of the duality of human nature."--Booklist

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0451206525
• ISBN 13: 9780451206527
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 496