false 1050383 20 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? 2209673 26 7 2007 The Sleeping Doll (Kathryn Dance, #1) total:1184|5:229|4:492|3:382|2:68|1:13| 1184 4408 1693 183 3 0 false false Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 12:29:58 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 12:30:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Nov 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 10:18:31 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 03:03:44 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 29 12:30:25 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 12:30:55 -0800 2008
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This book is my first ever Kathryn Dance novel but not my last. In this book, the usual cat and mouse cr...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 06:43:43 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 06:46:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 12 13:08:29 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 16 11:43:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jul 28 13:27:03 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 10 19:40:47 -0700 2009
The Sleeping Doll is a worthwhile story even if it does tend to get bogged down in details. Lots of kinesics information, which can be a little dry. ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 21:36:52 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 07 21:45:46 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 21 21:47:16 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 18 04:13:59 -0700 2008 3 The Cold Moon. i want more!!

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Not a bad thriller and I liked his female heroine. There was a decent story and the supporting characters were good too. Also there were a couple of surprising twists that I didn't see coming.

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