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The Sleeping Doll (Kathryn Dance)
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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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Jeffery Deaver’s most recent #1 international bestseller is Carte Blanche, the new James Bond novel that brought Ian Fleming’s Agent 007 firmly into the modern age. After revealing his lifelong admiration for Fleming’s novels while accepting the Crime Writer’s Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for his thriller Garden of Beasts, Deaver was approached by the estate of Ian Fleming to write the next Bond thriller. It debuted on bestseller lists around the world.
The author of two collections of short stories and 28 previous suspense novels, Deaver is best known for his Kathryn Dance and Lincoln Rhyme thrillers, most notably The Bone Collector, which was made into a feature starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. His many awards include the Novel of the Year at the International Thriller Writers’ Awards in 2009 for his standalone novel The Bodies Left Behind. The latest entries in the Lincoln Rhyme series are The Cold Moon, The Broken Window, and The Burning Wire.
Deaver has been nominated for seven Edgar Awards by the Mystery Writers of America, an Anthony Award and a Gumshoe Award. He was recently short-listed for the ITV3 Crime Thriller Award for Best International Author. His books are sold in 150 countries and translated into 25 languages. He lives in North Carolina.
For further information, visit www.jefferydeaver.com.
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"The Sleeping Doll" features Kinesics expert & CBI agent Kathryn Dance, who has been introduced in Deaver's latest Lincoln-Rhyme novel The Cold Moon: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel (Lincoln Rhyme Novels). She helped Rhyme and his team to catch the Clockmaker. Although Dance consults Rhyme for a forensic analysis once, "The Sleeping Doll" seems to be Dance's debut in her own series:
Daniel Pell was the leader of some kind of cult, living together with three females and another man as a "Family". He has been convicted and incarcerated eight years ago for the brutal murder of the Croyton family - a family of four. The then prosecuting DA dubbed him "The Son of Manson" due to the similarity in lifestyle and crime. Kathryn has to interrogate Pell because of an unsolved murder predating the Croyton-family murders, which he might be responsible for. After the interrogation at a courthouse Pell escapes, goes into hiding and on a killing spree. Dance enlists the help of the three women who were members of the "Family" to catch Pell before he gets even with those people who have wronged him in his eyes. She also manages to enlist the one surviving person of the brutal murder: Theresa Croyton, now 17 years old. Theresa survived the murder because the was asleep in her bed and covered by her stuffed toys - the press called her "The Sleeping Doll".....
Kathryn Dance is a very likeable, intelligent protagonist, surrounded by an agreeable cast of subsidiary characters. She has a lot of other things on her plate besides catching Pell: Still missing her late husband who died in a car accident, two teenaged kids opposing her dating other men, a new boss who mainly thinks about covering his ass and last but not least keeping her family safe from Pell.
The pacing is fast as usual and the story is told from Dance's as well as from Pell's point of view, which makes it very interesting to follow their line of thinking. However, Deaver the master of twists and turns, has outmaneuvered himself a bit this time. There are too many twists and turns so that the whole chase seems rather unlikely at times.
Am looking forward to read more books featuring Kathryn Dance - maybe with a few twists and turns less;-)!
Daniel Pell was the leader of some kind of cult, living together with three females and another man as a "Family". He has been convicted and incarcerated eight years ago for the brutal murder of the Croyton family - a family of four. The then prosecuting DA dubbed him "The Son of Manson" due to the similarity in lifestyle and crime. Kathryn has to interrogate Pell because of an unsolved murder predating the Croyton-family murders, which he might be responsible for. After the interrogation at a courthouse Pell escapes, goes into hiding and on a killing spree. Dance enlists the help of the three women who were members of the "Family" to catch Pell before he gets even with those people who have wronged him in his eyes. She also manages to enlist the one surviving person of the brutal murder: Theresa Croyton, now 17 years old. Theresa survived the murder because the was asleep in her bed and covered by her stuffed toys - the press called her "The Sleeping Doll".....
Kathryn Dance is a very likeable, intelligent protagonist, surrounded by an agreeable cast of subsidiary characters. She has a lot of other things on her plate besides catching Pell: Still missing her late husband who died in a car accident, two teenaged kids opposing her dating other men, a new boss who mainly thinks about covering his ass and last but not least keeping her family safe from Pell.
The pacing is fast as usual and the story is told from Dance's as well as from Pell's point of view, which makes it very interesting to follow their line of thinking. However, Deaver the master of twists and turns, has outmaneuvered himself a bit this time. There are too many twists and turns so that the whole chase seems rather unlikely at times.
Am looking forward to read more books featuring Kathryn Dance - maybe with a few twists and turns less;-)!
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"The Sleeping Doll" hat erfrischenderweise nicht mehr das ausgelutschte Duo Rhyme/Sachs im Zentrum, sondern die unverbrauchte Kathryn Dance. Als dem hochintelligenten, mehrfachen Mörder Pell die Flucht aus dem Gefängnis glückt, muss die Verhaltensspezialistin Kathryn eine Reise in Pells Vergangenheit antreten und die diversen Frauen seiner Kommune aufsuchen, aber auch das einzige Opfer, das mit dem Leben davonkam...
Die Handlung ist erst mal spannend und überzeugend. Pell scheint ständig Kathryn eine Nasenlänge voraus zu sein, und seine Wirkung auf Frauen kommt glaubhaft rüber. Im letzten Viertel des Romans nimmt die Handlung dann eine unerwartete Wendung nach der anderen, und ab da wird die Überkonstruiertheit der Handlung offenbar. Die allerletzte Wendung schließlich schießt an Unglaubwürdigkeit wirklich den Vogel ab, was die Schilderungen von Pells Persönlichkeit, Cleverness und Vergangenheit während der vorangegangenen 550 Seiten betrifft, und entwertet den ganzen Roman im Nachhinein. Mit weniger Überraschungseffekten wäre der Krimi wirklich besser gewesen!
Mir gefällt auch Deavers lehrbuchhafte Darstellung von Kriminalpsychologie nicht. Es schien mir so, als hätte Deaver hier ein Lehrbuch gelesen, das er dann als Origami-Anleitung zur Entschlüsselung komplizierter Verhaltensweisen in den Krimi eingebastelt hat. Das wirkt nicht natürlich beim Lesen, sondern lehrmeisterhaft, und mich hat das An-der-Hand-Nehmen durch den Autor angenervt.
2 Sterne. Schade.
Die Handlung ist erst mal spannend und überzeugend. Pell scheint ständig Kathryn eine Nasenlänge voraus zu sein, und seine Wirkung auf Frauen kommt glaubhaft rüber. Im letzten Viertel des Romans nimmt die Handlung dann eine unerwartete Wendung nach der anderen, und ab da wird die Überkonstruiertheit der Handlung offenbar. Die allerletzte Wendung schließlich schießt an Unglaubwürdigkeit wirklich den Vogel ab, was die Schilderungen von Pells Persönlichkeit, Cleverness und Vergangenheit während der vorangegangenen 550 Seiten betrifft, und entwertet den ganzen Roman im Nachhinein. Mit weniger Überraschungseffekten wäre der Krimi wirklich besser gewesen!
Mir gefällt auch Deavers lehrbuchhafte Darstellung von Kriminalpsychologie nicht. Es schien mir so, als hätte Deaver hier ein Lehrbuch gelesen, das er dann als Origami-Anleitung zur Entschlüsselung komplizierter Verhaltensweisen in den Krimi eingebastelt hat. Das wirkt nicht natürlich beim Lesen, sondern lehrmeisterhaft, und mich hat das An-der-Hand-Nehmen durch den Autor angenervt.
2 Sterne. Schade.
1 von 1 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Format:Taschenbuch
"The Sleeping Doll" features Kinesics expert & CBI agent Kathryn Dance, who has been introduced in Deaver's latest Lincoln-Rhyme novel "The Cold Moon". She helped Rhyme and his team to catch the Clockmaker. Although Dance consults Rhyme for a forensic analysis once, "The Sleeping Doll" seems to be Dance's debut in her own series:
Daniel Pell was the leader of some kind of cult, living together with three females and another man as a "Family". He has been convicted and incarcerated eight years ago for the brutal murder of the Croyton family - a family of four. The then prosecuting DA dubbed him "The Son of Manson" due to the similarity in lifestyle and crime. Kathryn has to interrogate Pell because of an unsolved murder predating the Croyton-family murders, which he might be responsible for. After the interrogation at a courthouse Pell escapes, goes into hiding and on a killing spree. Dance enlists the help of the three women who were members of the "Family" to catch Pell before he gets even with those people who have wronged him in his eyes. She also manages to enlist the one surviving person of the brutal murder: Theresa Croyton, now 17 years old. Theresa survived the murder because the was asleep in her bed and covered by her stuffed toys - the press called her "The Sleeping Doll".....
Kathryn Dance is a very likeable, intelligent protagonist, surrounded by an agreeable cast of subsidiary characters. She has a lot of other things on her plate besides catching Pell: Still missing her late husband who died in a car accident, two teenaged kids opposing her dating other men, a new boss who mainly thinks about covering his ass and last but not least keeping her family safe from Pell.
The pacing is fast as usual and the story is told from Dance's as well as from Pell's point of view, which makes it very interesting to follow their line of thinking. However, Deaver the master of twists and turns, has outmaneuvered himself a bit this time. There are too many twists and turns so that the whole chase seems rather unlikely at times.
Am looking forward to read more books featuring Kathryn Dance - maybe with a few twists and turns less;-)!
Daniel Pell was the leader of some kind of cult, living together with three females and another man as a "Family". He has been convicted and incarcerated eight years ago for the brutal murder of the Croyton family - a family of four. The then prosecuting DA dubbed him "The Son of Manson" due to the similarity in lifestyle and crime. Kathryn has to interrogate Pell because of an unsolved murder predating the Croyton-family murders, which he might be responsible for. After the interrogation at a courthouse Pell escapes, goes into hiding and on a killing spree. Dance enlists the help of the three women who were members of the "Family" to catch Pell before he gets even with those people who have wronged him in his eyes. She also manages to enlist the one surviving person of the brutal murder: Theresa Croyton, now 17 years old. Theresa survived the murder because the was asleep in her bed and covered by her stuffed toys - the press called her "The Sleeping Doll".....
Kathryn Dance is a very likeable, intelligent protagonist, surrounded by an agreeable cast of subsidiary characters. She has a lot of other things on her plate besides catching Pell: Still missing her late husband who died in a car accident, two teenaged kids opposing her dating other men, a new boss who mainly thinks about covering his ass and last but not least keeping her family safe from Pell.
The pacing is fast as usual and the story is told from Dance's as well as from Pell's point of view, which makes it very interesting to follow their line of thinking. However, Deaver the master of twists and turns, has outmaneuvered himself a bit this time. There are too many twists and turns so that the whole chase seems rather unlikely at times.
Am looking forward to read more books featuring Kathryn Dance - maybe with a few twists and turns less;-)!
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there are better thrillers
I read this novel twice. And after half a year couldn't remember what it is about. While reading it is ok, lets say entertaining. But Deaver wrote much better novels. Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 5 Monaten von Jens Rueckert veröffentlicht
only slightly above average
First the good news: nobody will ever claim that Jeffery Deaver is likely to bore his readers. His protagonist in "The sleeping doll", the newly introduced Katherine Dance takes... Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 19 Monaten von Tom Henry veröffentlicht
Gute Unterhaltung
War mein erstes Buch des Autors.
Gute, gediegene Unterhaltung, perfekte Spannungsbögen, Nebenhandlungen gerade richtig dosiert und das Thema Kriminalistik über... Lesen Sie weiter...
Gute, gediegene Unterhaltung, perfekte Spannungsbögen, Nebenhandlungen gerade richtig dosiert und das Thema Kriminalistik über... Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 21 Monaten von Anna Tanner veröffentlicht
Hack Job...
Daniel Pell, a "modern-day Charles Manson" escapes from prison and one of the most boring manhunts in the history of breakouts begins. It's incredible! Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 12. Mai 2010 von Monterey
verheddert sich in eigenen Ansprüchen
Jeffery Deaver lesen ist bisweilen wie Schwarzenegger im Kino gucken. Der Held (hier die Heldin) läuft durch eine Szenerie und kombiniert wie Sherlock Holmes auf Dope,... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. Januar 2010 von helmut seeger
Etwas anders
In diesem uch werden die Bösen nicht durch Spurensicherung und harte Fakten gelöst, sondern durch Beobachtung und Kinesiologie. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 10. Mai 2009 von Daniel Fischer
The sleeping doll
Ein sehr spannendes Buch, es hat mich sehr gegruselt. Ich kann so etwas nicht öfter lesen, denn es ärgert mich zu sehr, wenn der Übeltäter seine Opfer immer... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 15. Februar 2009 von Matina Gospel
Absolutely gripping. One of Deaver's best
I never really got into the Lincoln Rhyme books but Agent Katherine Dance is much different. From the first page, I got sucked into Deaver's story full of death, duplicity and... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 12. Februar 2008 von Mark O'Neill
Direkter Ableger aus Rhyme/Sachs
In "Der gehetzte Uhrmacher" begegneten Lincoln Rhyme und Amelia Sachs der Kinesologin Kathryn Dance, die dem zunächst ein wenig ablehnenden Lincoln hilfreich unter die Arme... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 11. Februar 2008 von K. Beck-Ewerhardy
Solid groundwork for a new series
"The Sleeping Doll" features Kinesics expert & CBI agent Kathryn Dance, who has been introduced in Deaver's latest Lincoln-Rhyme novel "The Cold Moon". Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 18. Januar 2008 von Wombatsbooks
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