Tell Me Your Dreams - Hardcover

Sheldon, Sidney

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688162827 ISBN 13: 9780688162825

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1998

Synopsis

In a chilling novel based on actual events, three beautiful young women become the prime suspects in a series of brutal killings, in a case that leads to one of the strangest murder trials of the twentieth century. 850,000 first printing. Lit Guild Main.

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Review:

Meet Ashley Patterson, the brainy, babelicious "computer whiz" and confused heroine of Tell Me Your Dreams. Although she has a cushy job at Global Computer Graphics, a fast-growing start-up in California's Silicon Valley, her life seems to lack fulfilment. She's lonely, shy, and absolutely convinced she's being stalked. What's worse, the only sympathetic ear around is her father, Dr Patterson, the heartless heart surgeon, who has the charm of an electric eel and the compassion of a tarantula. Given her options, Ashley looks to the heavens for support and offers up an ultimatum to the Almighty: "I'll make a deal with you, God. If it doesn't rain, it means that everything is all right, that I've been imagining everything." Of course, it starts raining buckets just paragraphs later, setting off a car alarm of an omen about our computer cutie's fate.

Enter Toni Prescott and Alette Peters. They both work with Ashley at Global Computer Graphics, but the similarities end there. Toni is a saucy, British vixen with a penchant for Internet dating and discotheques. La bella Italiana Alette, on the other hand, is a wannabee artist who prefers quiet, dreamy weekends with beefcake painters. Reminiscent of junior high school, Toni and Alette do their best to keep Ashley out of their cool clique, but find it difficult when a string of murders irrevocably binds them together. Based on a true story and laden with realistic details-- not to mention a whopper of an ending--Tell Me Your Dreams is vintage Sheldon. However, there is one necessary caveat: avoid moviegoer types who insist on telling you the entire plot before you have a chance to see it. You should be doing this anyway, but take extra care with this book. Once the surprise ending is blown, so is the fun in reading it. --Rebekah Warren

Review:

‘Sheldon is an author working at the height of his power’
New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0688162827
• ISBN 13: 9780688162825
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 354