Dead Sleep - by Greg Iles (Paperback)

About the Book

Photojournalist Jordan Glass is disturbed by paintings in which the nude female subjects appear to be dead. One of the subjects has Jordan's face--or it's the face of her twin sister who disappeared and is still missing. At the FBI's urging, Jordan goes in search of an obsessed killer who seems to know more about her and her family than she's prepared to accept.

Book 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...

Review Quotes

"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 the Author

Greg Iles is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Penn Cage series. His novels have been made into films, translated into more than twenty languages, and published in more than thirty-five countries worldwide.