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A review by cjeanne99
Dead Sleep by Greg Iles
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
4.5
Photographer Jordan Glass is in Hong Kong. At the recommendation of a friend, she visits an art museum where she is stunned to find a gallery of paintings of “sleeping women” - all nudes, mostly painted in bathtubs, and all appear to be dead. Including a painting of her identical twin sister, who disappeared from her New Orleans neighborhood over a year ago - and is presumed to be the victim of the same person who murdered 10 other women in New Orleans, although Jane’s body has never been found.
Jordan contacts the FBI to let them know of the painting, she heads for New York with instructions to fly to Washington DC after she lands. While on the plane she makes some calls, and comes up with the name of the art dealer who sold the paintings to the collector who was displaying them in Hong Kong. Instead of going directly to DC - she detours to do her own investigation with the dealer - who has one more painting of a sleeping woman that he is about to ship out. He claims to have no knowledge of the painter - and thendies when someone sets his gallery/living quarters on fire. Jordan escapes and captures a picture of the person she thinks is the arsonist in the crowd .
This unleashes an FBI investigation with Jordan, a private citizen, as a full participant in the process. Paintings are examined, including some that are owned by a man who lives in the Cayman Islands to avoid extradition for an unrelated incident.
The paintings were painted using a unique brush - a supply of which are used by the head of the Tulane art department, and his three graduate program students. As the FBI investigates, Jordan is right there, interviewing suspects, gathering information, and eventually, being kidnapped herself.
The plot kept me entertained and guessing.
Jordan contacts the FBI to let them know of the painting, she heads for New York with instructions to fly to Washington DC after she lands. While on the plane she makes some calls, and comes up with the name of the art dealer who sold the paintings to the collector who was displaying them in Hong Kong. Instead of going directly to DC - she detours to do her own investigation with the dealer - who has one more painting of a sleeping woman that he is about to ship out. He claims to have no knowledge of the painter - and then
This unleashes an FBI investigation with Jordan, a private citizen, as a full participant in the process. Paintings are examined, including some that are owned by a man who lives in the Cayman Islands to avoid extradition for an unrelated incident.
The paintings were painted using a unique brush - a supply of which are used by the head of the Tulane art department, and his three graduate program students. As the FBI investigates, Jordan is right there, interviewing suspects, gathering information, and eventually, being kidnapped herself.
The plot kept me entertained and guessing.