Sleep No More - Hardcover

Iles, Greg

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399148817 ISBN 13: 9780399148811

Publisher: Putnam Adult, 2002

Synopsis

Enjoying a happy marriage and fatherhood while remembering an obsessive love affair years earlier with a woman who subsequently died, John Waters encounters a woman with a secret only his ex-girlfriend knows, and when she, too, is killed, Waters's life is enveloped by guilt and suspicion. 100,000 first printing.

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Review:

Eve Sumner has an uncanny resemblance to a long-dead woman with whom John Waters was once obsessively in love. The successful Mississippi oilman's college affair with Mallory Candler ended long before she was killed, but the mysterious Eve knows things about that affair that only Mallory could have known. That's more than a coincidence, since Eve is actually Mallory's reincarnation—or, at least, she's the corporeal body into which Mallory's restless soul seems to have migrated. Long before the bizarre denouement of this supernatural thriller--a departure for Iles, whose previous thrillers have been much more straightforward--the reader's sympathies have been engaged by Waters, a decent man whose best friend may be his worst enemy and whose past may destroy his future. Iles has many gifts as a storyteller, including ingenious plotting and solid pacing, both of which are on display here, but this foray into the occult doesn't show them off to best advantage. --Jane Adams

About the Author:

Greg Iles is the author of Dead Sleep, 24 Hours, The Quiet Game, Mortal Fear, Black Cross, and Spandau Phoenix.

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Adult
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0399148817
• ISBN 13: 9780399148811
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 382