Dead Sleep

Greg Iles is the author, and what fun it is to find a new author to read. I picked up a couple of his books (Dead Sleep and The Quiet Game) at the library after reading a recommendation of him in a book column. I am glad I did.

Dead Sleep is especially interesting - a dynamite premise starts the book, although the resolution isn't nearly as inventive. But we begin with Jordan Glass, a female war photographer who has made a name for herself - Pulitzer Prize and all. While in Asia, she comes across an art exhibit of a series of nude women who appear to be either sleeping or dead. It soon becomes clear why the other patrons and museum staff have been staring at her, however, when she confronts a painting that appears to show her - Jordan - as one of the Sleeping Women.

It is only then that we learn that Jordan is a twin, and that her sister Jane was abducted many months earlier. Jane's body was never found. And eight other women abducted in New Orleans before and after Jane have not been found either. How many of them are subjects of one of the Sleeping Women paintings?

Jordan contacts the FBI but also begins to investigate on her own, putting her own life in danger as she gets closer to the mysterious artist.
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Other books read since last entry - more Susan Howatch (Glittering Images, Glamorous Powers) and Iles' Quiet Game.