Dead Sleep

Abridged
Author: Greg Iles
Narrator: Susie Breck
Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Date: June 2004
Length: 6 hours
Ratings:
  • Book Rating: 4/5
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Overview

Jordan Glass, a photojournalist on a well-earned vacation, wanders into a Hong Kong art museum and is puzzled to find fellow patrons eyeing her with curiosity. Minutes later, she stumbles upon a gallery containing a one-artist exhibition called "The Sleeping Women," a mysterious series of paintings that has caused a sensation in the world of modern art. Collectors have come to believe that the canvases depict female nudes not in sleep but in death, and they command millions at auction. When Jordan approaches the last work in the series, she freezes. The face in the painting seems to be her own.

This unsettling event hurls her back into a nightmare she has fought desperately to put behind her - for, in fact, the face in the painting belongs not to Jordan but to her twin sister, murdered one year ago. At the urging of the FBI, Jordan becomes both hunter and hunted in a duel with the anonymous artist, a gifted murderer who knows the secret history of Jordan's family, and truths that even she has never had the courage to face.

Selected Reviews

Dead Sleep

by KK Boyd
  • Book Rating: 3/5

dead sleep

by Lee Werley
  • Book Rating: 4/5

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Reviews (3)

Dead Sleep

Written by KK Boyd on September 6th, 2006

  • Book Rating: 3/5

Essentially a whodunit, Dead Sleep is interesting if not edge-of-your-seat. A small group of suspects is (at some length) introduced to you and you must guess which is the sicko serial killer who is painting dead or nearly dead women then selling the canvases for a fortune. The photogrpaher/sleuth seems to be carrying a lot of unnecesary emotional baggage unless you like tortured secrets and complicated family relationships. In spite of the distractions, I guessed the murderer early on and kind of skipped a little to get to the end to see if I was right. I wish writers who want to write novels would just do it and not disguise them as so-called thrillers because that genre sells better.

dead sleep

Written by Lee Werley from Chapel Hill, NC on January 23rd, 2006

  • Book Rating: 4/5

I really enjoyed this. Good story line, reader could have done a better job with all the different characters.

Dead Sleep

Written by Iloveamystery on May 11th, 2005

  • Book Rating: 3/5

A bit contrived but it kept my interest in spite of that fact.

Selected Reviews

Dead Sleep

by KK Boyd
  • Book Rating: 3/5

dead sleep

by Lee Werley
  • Book Rating: 4/5

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Author Details

Author Details

Iles, Greg

Greg Iles was born in Germany in 1960, where his father ran the US Embassy Medical Clinic during the height of the Cold War. He spent his youth in Natchez, Mississippi, and graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1983.

Greg founded the band "Frankly Scarlet" and spent several years playing music for a living. The year after he was married, he gigged on the road for 50 weeks out of 52, and realized that this lifestyle was simply not sustainable with a family. He quit the band and began working eighteen hours a day on his first novel, Spandau Phoenix, a thriller about Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess. When Greg sold this manuscript, he left the music business to complete the book.

Over the course of his next few books, Greg broke the formula adhered to by most commercial novelists and wrote in a variety of genres. Surprisingly, each found a place on the bestseller list, and today readers look forward to discovering what new subject Greg has explored in his latest novel.

Greg's novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages and published in more than twenty countries worldwide.