The Sleeping Doll: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

Lincoln Rhyme is back! The amazing criminologist returns with his partner and paramour Amelia Sachs, in a blistering bestseller that checks forensic detective work in a brave new world.

When Special Agent Kathryn Dance-a brilliant interrogator and kinesics professional with the California Bureau of Investigation-is sent to question the convicted killer Daniel “Son of Manson” Pell as a suspect within a recently unearthed crime, she feels both trepidation and electrifying intrigue. Pell can be serving a life about The Sleeping Doll: A Book word for the brutal murders of the wealthy Croyton family in Carmel years earlier-a criminal offense mirroring those perpetrated by Charles Manson in the 1960s. But Pell and his cult members were sloppy: Not merely were they apprehended, they actually left behind a survivor-the youngest of the Croyton daughters, who, because she was during intercourse concealed by her playthings that terrible night time, was dubbed the Sleeping Doll.

However the girl never spoke about that night, nor did the crime’s mastermind. Certainly, Pell has long been both reticent and unrepentant about the criminal offense. And so with the murderer transported from the Capitola superprison for an interrogation room in the Monterey County Courthouse, Dance views an opportunity to pry a confession from him for the latest murder-and to learn more about the depraved brain of this career legal who considers himself a expert of control, a dark Svengali, forcing visitors to do what they otherwise would never get pregnant of doing. In an electrifying mental jousting match, Dance telephone calls up all her abilities as an interrogator and kinesics-body language-expert to access the reality behind Daniel Pell.

However when Dance’s strategy moves terribly wrong and Pell escapes, abandoning a path of dead and injured, she sees herself in charge of her first-ever manhunt. But far from merely fleeing, Pell becomes 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 converts to the past to get the truth in what Daniel Pell is really up to. She tracks down the right now teenage Sleeping Doll to understand what really occurred that evening, and she arranges a reunion of three ladies who were in his cult at the time of the killings. The is situated of the past as well as the evasions of the present boil up beneath the relentless probing of Kathryn Dance, but will the reality about Daniel Pell emerge in time to avoid him from eliminating again?