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Dead Sleep

Dead Sleep

by Greg Iles

2001Family secretsDeathArtistsDetective and mystery storiesFiction
3.0
Open Library
Open Library

About this book

They are called "The Sleeping Women." A series of unsettling paintings in which the nude female subjects appear to be not asleep, but dead. Photojournalist Jordan Glass has another reason to find the paintings disturbing...The face on one of the nudes is her own-or perhaps the face of her twin sister, who disappeared and is still missing. At the urging of the FBI, Jordan becomes both hunter and hunted in a search for the anonymous artist-an obsessed killer who seems to know more about Jordan and her family than she is prepared to face...

Themes & subjects

Family secretsDeathArtistsDetective and mystery storiesFictionSuspense
First published 2001

Setting

Hong Kong (China)China

About the author

Greg Iles
Greg Iles

8 April 1960 – 15 August 2025

Greg Iles was born in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany, where his physician father ran the U.S. Embassy Medical Clinic during the height of the Cold War. Iles spent his youth in Natchez, Mississippi, and graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1983. Iles spent several years as a guitarist, singer, and songwriter in the band Frankly Scarlet. He quit the band after he was married and began working on his first novel, *Spandau Phoenix*, a thriller about Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess. Primarily set in the Deep South, his later novels have been made into films, translated into more than 20 languages, and published in more than 35 countries worldwide. In 2011, Iles was serious…

Author

Greg Iles

First published

2001

Pages

467

Read time

≈ 12h

Editions

13

Language

English

Publisher

G.P. Putnam's Sons

ISBN

9781593556785

Where to buy

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