The Sleeping Doll: A Novel (Kathryn Dance, No 1)

The Sleeping Doll: A Novel (Kathryn Dance, No 1)

Lincoln Rhyme is back! The brilliant criminologist returns with his partner and paramour Amelia Sachs, in a blistering bestseller that tests forensic detective work in a brave new world.

When Special Agent Kathryn Danceâ€”a brilliant interrogator and kinesics expert with the California Bureau of Investigationâ€”is sent to question the convicted killer Daniel â€œSon of Mansonâ€ 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 earlierâ€”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 survivorâ€”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 murderâ€”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 kinesicsâ€”body languageâ€”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 pursuersâ€”and other innocentsâ€”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?
Country USA
Brand Pocket Star
Manufacturer Pocket Star
Binding Mass Market Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780743491587
ReleaseDate 2008-05-20
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780743491587

The Sleeping Doll: A Novel (Kathryn Dance, No 1)

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Country	USA
Brand	Pocket Star
Manufacturer	Pocket Star
Binding	Mass Market Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780743491587
ReleaseDate	2008-05-20
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780743491587