Beauty Sleep: A Novel of Suspense - Hardcover

Klein, Daniel M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312042647 ISBN 13: 9780312042646

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1990

Synopsis

When beauty columnist Amy Martin and endocrinologist David Copeland investigate a miraculous beauty cream called "Makeover," they uncover an insidious plot that threatens the lives of the world's most beautiful women

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YA-- A surprising, captivating suspense novel. Told by Amy Martin, a glamour consultant reporting for a leading ladies magazine, the story stresses the fascination women have with the attainment of beauty. As attractive women are murdered, Amy begins to wonder if beauty kills. Her article about beauty and death is dismissed by her magazine and the police as far-fetched. Her writings do bring her to the attention of a young doctor, an endocrinologist working in a major cosmetic firm's laboratory. He is convinced that a powerful new beauty product can be connected to the dead models. When the doctor and Amy meet, the truth begins to unfold. Easily read, the story builds to an unexpected and horrifying conclusion, and YAs will have an opportunity to rethink all common conceptions of beauty. Man's inhumanity to man hits a high note in this novel, making readers appreciate the incredible yet plausible ending. --Linda A. Vretos, West Springfield High School, VA
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Medicine and high-tech cosmetology, combined here by an author who clearly knows a good deal about both, give overtones of Faust and Frankenstein to this spinechilling thriller. Amy Martin is a columnist for Femina magazine, Dr. David Copeland an endocrinologist not above bending the rules to keep his hospital afloat. Together they unearth a conspiracy in which beautiful models serve as involuntary guinea pigs in the production of a hormone-based beauty cream that, offering new skin, bones and flesh, gives new meaning to the word "makeover." Klein's ( Embryo ; Wavelengths ) background details have a convincing and even alarming rattle as his story raises intriguing questions about the price of beauty.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

"Makeover," a costly new face cream, makes beauties of ordinary women. No one knows, however, that the secret ingredient comes from the blood of the world's ten loveliest models, all presumed dead, but actually in hospitals operated by the crooked "La Douce" cosmetic company. A hokey premise, but readers who can suspend disbelief will enjoy this fast-moving thriller as much as Klein's popular Wavelengths (LJ 7/83)) . Heroine Amy Martin, author of a consumer column on beauty products for a women's magazine, stumbles onto the company's illegal operations while investigating the disappearance of a friend. World-renowned endocrinologist Dr. David Copeland, as ethical as he is handsome, joins forces with Martin to pursue the villains. The characters and ending are flat, but undiscriminating readers will enjoy this clone of the Robin Cook formula.
- Joyce Smothers, Monmouth Cty. Lib., Manalapan, N.J.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312042647
• ISBN 13: 9780312042646
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 290