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Chargement... The Sleeping Doll: A Novel (original 2007; édition 2007)par Jeffery Deaver
Information sur l'oeuvreThe Sleeping Doll par Jeffery Deaver (2007)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. (2007)2nd of Deaver's novels I've read. This one follows Katherine Dance, a CBI (California) agent who specializes in reading people and if they are lying (a lot like the TV show Lie to Me). Very good as she and her agents and FBI try to track down a Charles Manson type killer who escapes from prison but does not leave the area. The killer is manipulative with his followers and with his captors as well. Seems that Dance is the only one who can pick up on this. Twist ending I did not see coming. (PW) Kathryn Dance, an investigator with the California Bureau of Investigation, returns from Deaver's The Cold Moon (where she was a secondary) in this post?prison break pulse-pounder. Dance is the lead cop handling the escape of psychopathic killer Daniel Pell, dubbed "Son of Manson" by the press for his "family" of young runaways and his most horrendous crime, the murders of computer engineer William Croyton, Croyton's wife and two of their three children. The only child left alive, nine-year-old Theresa, is known as the Sleeping Doll. Pell, charismatic and diabolically intelligent, continually eludes capture, but Dance, a specialist in interrogation and kinesics (or body language), is never more than a few suspenseful minutes behind. Dance is nicely detailed, and procedural scenes where she uses somatic cues to ferret out liars are fascinating. The book sags in its long middle, but toward the end Deaver digs into his bottomless bag of unexpected twists and turns, keeping readers wide-eyed with surprise, and leaving them looking forward to more of the perspicacious Dance. Audiobook version. Although I didn't care much for the main character, Katherine Dance, the secondary characters were compelling enough to keep me listening. There were a few plot twists that came to me as a pleasant surprise, and overall I enjoyed the story. I probably will not listen to any more in this series, though. En 1999, Daniel Pell asesinó a toda una familia. Sólo dejó viva a una niña, escondida entre sus muñecas. Los medios la bautizaron como "La muñeca dormida". Daniel Pell fue condenado a cadena perpetua y se ganó el mote de "El hijo de Manson". Como el célebre criminal, Pell también tenía una "familia", capaces de cometer los actos más terribles por él. La agente especial Kathryn Dance es una experta en análisis del lenguaje corporal: el arte de leer cada gesto, cada tic, y detectar mentiras o incoherencias en un testimonio. Cuando Dance se enfrenta a Pell, lo que percibe la deja horrorizada y, a la vez, fascinada. Pell no es un criminal común. Y cuando Pell se fuga de la prisión en una acción espectacular y perfectamente ejecutada, para iniciar una sanguinaria seguidilla de crímenes por todo el país, Dance debe utilizar todos sus recursos para atraparlo, aunque su propia vida esté en peligro. I have enjoyed all of Jeffery Deaver's books, which have mostly been in the Lincoln Rhyme series. My rating is not really absolute, but more in comparative to others of this type. The last one I read, "The Cold Moon," introduced a new character, Kathryn Dance, from the Calif Bureau of Investigation. She came to help, and at first Rhyme had little interest, as she used psychological methods as opposed to his scientific physical evidence, and he's very opinionated and thought his method was the only way. After she proved to be very helpful, he began to give in a bit. I think that the two of them as a team are better than either one, and I'd like to see more collaboration between them. When I found out there was a series with Kathryn Dance, I jumped at the chance to read one, and was not disappointed. This book was one I had trouble putting down. When it seemed to be over, there was still more. Then, when it really seemed to be over, there was even more. This is somewhat typical of what I've seen from Deaver; you can never think you know the whole story til it's over. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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