The Sleeping Doll: A Novel (Kathryn Dance, No 1)
by Jeffery Deaver
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Author: Jeffery DeaverEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-05-20
ISBN: 0743491580
Number of pages: 608
Publisher: Pocket Star
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- Bloody River Blues (Location Scout)
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- The Sleeping Doll: A Novel (Kathryn Dance Novels)
Book Reviews of The Sleeping Doll: A Novel (Kathryn Dance, No 1)
Book Review: action twisty twisty twist and more action
Summary: 5 Stars
Ms. Dance is a "human lie detector" who works for California's version of the FBI. So, when an unsolved murder involving a mass murderer behind bars hits her desk, she has Daniel Pell (the murderer) brought to a prison near her (why not go where he's already incarcerated, you ask? -- Don't!). This percipitates a fiendishly complicated escape plot that is executed perfectly and then the chase is on with Dance trying to understand what Pell is doing while he outsmarts her at every step. The bodies keep piling up as Dance is always almost catching Pell and more and more devilish twists come up.
For a mystery thriller there does not seem to be much mystery as we follow Pell through the book and know that he is the main subject. However, this is definitely a thriller and the pages keep turning and the book cannot be put down. Just when you think the plot is getting ready to be resolved, you learn of some new twist and turn - reading the other reviews here, I note that this is vintage Deaver.
I was completely taken in by the plotting and the twisting and certainly never expected the two major plot twists that came up at the end of the book. One was acceptable to me and had me rooting for Deaver for having come up with such a delightful thing, the other one I did not care for. I will not write what they are as they will ruin the book for others.
Of course, this kind of thriller requires you to suspend reality completely. I mean, what is the reason for Dance not to go interview Pell in the super-secure prison that holds him? Why bring him out to a different facility where he manages an escape? Even more baffling is exactly how smart and up to date Pell is. He frequently manages to pre-think the scrapes he will be in and have prepared for them well in advance. Also, even though he has been in prison for almost a decade, he manages to know exactly which locations to drive to that are completely deserted to perform various nefarious deeds. Dance is always a step behind until the very end of the book when the obligatory shoot out takes place.
So, a great summer or airplane read and I highly recommend it for that purpose.
Summary of The Sleeping Doll: A Novel (Kathryn Dance, No 1)
When Special Agent Kathryn Dance -- a brilliant interrogator and kinesics expert with the California Bureau of Investigation -- is sent to question the convicted killer Daniel "Son of Manson" Pell as a suspect in a newly unearthed crime, she feels both trepidation and electrifying intrigue. Pell is serving a life sentence for the brutal murders of the wealthy Croyton family in Carmel years earlier -- a crime mirroring those perpetrated by Charles Manson in the 1960s. But Pell and his cult members were sloppy: Not only were they apprehended, they even left behind a survivor -- the youngest of the Croyton daughters, who, because she was in bed hidden by her toys that terrible night, was dubbed the Sleeping Doll.But the girl never spoke about that night, nor did the crime's mastermind. Indeed, Pell has long been both reticent and unrepentant about the crime. And so with the murderer transported from the Capitola superprison to an interrogation room in the Monterey County Courthouse, Dance sees an opportunity to pry a confession from him for the recent murder -- and to learn more about the depraved mind of this career criminal who considers himself a master of control, a dark Svengali, forcing people to do what they otherwise would never conceive of doing. In an electrifying psychological jousting match, Dance calls up all her skills as an interrogator and kinesics -- body language -- expert to get to the truth behind Daniel Pell.
But when Dance's plan goes terribly wrong and Pell escapes, leaving behind a trail of dead and injured, she finds herself in charge of her first-ever manhunt. But far from simply fleeing, Pell turns on his pursuers -- and other innocents -- for reasons Dance and her colleagues can't discern. As the idyllic Monterey Peninsula is paralyzed by the elusive killer, Dance turns to the past to find the truth about what Daniel Pell is really up to. She tracks down the now teenage Sleeping Doll to learn what really happened that night, and she arranges a reunion of three women who were in his cult at the time of the killings. The lies of the past and the evasions of the present boil up under the relentless probing of Kathryn Dance, but will the truth about Daniel Pell emerge in time to stop him from killing again?
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