Dead Sleep
by Greg Iles
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Book Reviews of Dead Sleep
Book Review: What a fast pace story!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
While in Hong Kong, photojournalist Jordan Glass, wanders into an art museum. While admiring the work, she is besieged with stares and horrified glances by the others in the gallery, within moments Jordan realizes why she is receiving this reaction...for on the wall is a painting of a woman, a woman that is identical to her.
Knowing she did NOT pose for this picture, Jordan knows it can be only one other person, her identical twin sister who vanished a year ago. This painting is one of a series of women who were apparently victims of a serial killer who the police have yet to catch.
Dashing off to New York, Jordan wants to come face to face with an agent who sells the painters series of paintings named " THE SLEEPING WOMEN " only when she arrives in New York, the agent is not cooperative and will not name the artist, within minutes his building is torched, leaving him dead.
Jordan barely escapes the horrendous fire. The FBI want Jorden to help them catch the madman who is abducting women, killing them, and then painting them or getting someone else to paint them. Jordan wants to find her sister's killer and find out if her sister is really dead even though this means putting her own life in danger.
I don't give out many 5 stars. This is a great book. I highly recommend it.
Book Review: Taut thriller, tension builds, mounts and holds you to the book
Summary: 4 Stars
Jordan Glass - a photojournalist just like her father, who disappeared (presumably dead) in Cambodia when she was young - tries to keep herself so busy that she doesn't think about her past. 18 months ago, her identical twin sister Jane disappeared, and despite having an intuition that her sister is dead, she still holds out hope that Jane will be found. While in Hong Kong she decides to visit an art gallery, and is absolutely floored to find a painting - among a group called Sleeping Women - of herself ... or, perhaps, Jane. What really rocks her on her heel is that the paintings seem to portray these women as sleeping, but her photographic eye tells her that they might actually be dead, instead. Since Jane was only one of 11 women who have gone missing over the past few years, Jordan takes her information to the FBI.
Once she has informed the FBI about these paintings, Jordan insinuates herself into the search for the person who painted these pictures. She also feels a keen attraction for the lead agent - John Kaiser. Can they find the person who is painting this pictures? Can they find the person who is kidnapping these women?
This is a very well-done and entertaining thriller/mystery. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good mystery or thriller, as well as fans in general of Greg Iles.
Book Review: Can artistic genius coexist with serial killing?
Summary: 4 Stars
When Jordan Glass, a photographer known for seeking dangerous assignments, finds the lifeless form of her missing twin sister depicted in one of the paintings that are part of an exhibit of "sleeping women" in Hong Kong, little does she know that she is about to embark on a perilous journey searching for the connection between one or more artists and a series of kidnappings of women in New Orleans, including her sister.
Having been stonewalled by law enforcement personnel when her sister first disappeared, Jordan insists on being an integral part of an intensified investigation now conducted by the FBI. Through her eyes, the reader is treated to an inside look at FBI processes, including psychological profiling and the identification and questioning of suspects.
The characters are well sketched, including the suspects. The peculiarities of the art world and the predilections of its inhabitants is well explored. The dialogue can drag a bit, but not to the point of distraction. Jordan is a compelling character with the edge taken off her tough-girl routine just enough in her relations with FBI agent John Kaiser. The book does generally have a good pace with the ending flowing well from what has transpired. This book shows why Isles is regarded as one of the better writers in this genre.
Book Review: Guaranteed to not be your last Iles' book...
Summary: 5 Stars
Deep Sleep will make you want to read more. After reading this one--a grocery store pick up for something to read on vacation--I was hooked and soon made a trip to the nearest bookstore for The Quiet Game and 24 Hours (coming out as the movie Trapped this fall). (I found both of those books to be just as well-crafted as Deep Sleep, but still like my first selection the best.) Iles does a masterful job of writing from the female perspective as Jordan Glass, the main character. I had just completed a college course in Women's Studies when I read Deep Sleep, and soon found myself recommending it to my professor because of the intuitive passages about the challenges the Glass character faces. As an artist and photographer, I also recognized the attitudes and behaviors of many creative people in Iles' characters. Although any admirer of suspense novels would enjoy this book, it will be especially appealing to those with an interest in art, photography, and the Vietnam War. Yet while those elements are layered within the story, they are not the story. The only criticism I had of this book was that the ending seemed too abrupt after the storyline being so carefully constructed. It may just be that, while curious to know the conclusion, I didn't want the story to end. Highly recommended!Book Review: A delicate story of a strong woman's dilemma,
Summary: 4 Stars
Greg Iles' Dead Sleep depicts the thoughts of an independent career woman with eloquence. The ability to show how frail the human psyche is when faced with dire family issues is outstanding. Issues of rape, child abuse and post Vietnam stress compound the problems and are taken on with balanced composure.
The book begins with a photographer needing a break from work and taking a vacation to Hong Kong. To her disbelief, a portrait is on display in a popular art exhibit that is a replica of her twin sister who has been missing for 18 months. To get closure from her sister's death or disappearance, she begins a journey to answer questions the FBI can't find.
At times, the reader loses patience with the investigation's pace because the team is truthfully depicted as trained to "follow the book". The ebb and flow of detective work is weaved into the plot to understand why women are disappearing without a trace of evidence or ransom demand. The effective use of bouncing from masculine and feminine individual traits adds to the seamless story of a family member who owes a sibling a childhood debt. If you want to follow the mind set of a woman in the men's world of police work, this is a good place to start.