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Sleeping Beauty

door Phillip Margolin

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Author Miles Van Meter is on a book tour to promote his sensational bestseller Sleeping Beauty, a true-crime account of a deeply personal subject: the attack by a serial killer that left his twin sister, Casey, in a coma. Tonight the audience waits to hear Miles discuss recent developments in his sister's case â?? unaware that pieces of this complex puzzle of violence, unknown even to the author, are about to be revealed.

Six years earlier, life was much simpler for everyone involved, especially seventeen-year-old Ashley Spencer, a popular high school soccer star. Then one night an intruder entered Ashley's home and murdered her father and her best friend. Traumatized and suffering from a crippling sense of survivor guilt, Ashley is ready to give up on both soccer and life until help comes from an unexpected source â?? a scholarship to the Oregon Academy, an elite private school, is extended to her by school dean Casey Van Meter. The school quickly becomes a haven for both Ashley and her mother, Terri. As Ashley regains her sense of self through the school's soccer program, Terri joins a writing group for adults led by Joshua Maxfield, a former literary wunderkind who has disappeared from the bestseller lists since his second book was panned by both critics and fans.

Then tragedy strikes again and Ashley has to run for her life, unaware that the key to her survival is in the one book she's afraid to read â?? Sleeping Beauty.

With its blend of dizzying plot twists and thrilling suspense, Sleeping Beauty shows Phillip Margolin at the very top of his f… (meer)

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  dgmathis | Mar 15, 2023 |
This mystery has the largest twist I've ever read in any book. It also has many lesser twists. All of this adds up to a terrific mystery. Of course, by the mid-point, a reader realizes that there has to be something new and unexpected. If such didn't come, one would scream fraud. But the twists did come and they were well worth the wait. I can honestly say I would recommend this work to anyone who wants an enjoyable and interesting read. ( )
  DeaconBernie | Jul 23, 2019 |
This is the first Phillip Margolin book that I have read, and I'm hooked!

While I picked this book in error, I was looking for true crime and this popped up because one of the characters in the book had written a true crime account within this novel. So, once I figured out it was fiction, I was well on my way into the book...it truly would have been a fascinating serial killer account.

The novel opens at the home of Norman and Terri Spencer whose home has just been invaded by a monster...who is later revealed in the book. This monster kills Norman, and Tanya Jones, the best friend of his daughter, Ashley Spencer. Norman drags his dying body to his daughter and is able to free her from the duct tape that the murderer has bound her with, enabling her to escape while the murderer is downstairs eating a piece of cake and drinking a glass of milk...and that's just the beginning of the terror that Ashley lives through for years before the murderer or murderers are revealed...

Secrets are revealed, and all is not as it seems... ( )
  shannon.dolgos | Sep 5, 2017 |
Honestly... I'm so very sick and tired of authors choosing narrators who know how to ruin a decent story. I listened to the Talking Books digital version.The elderly male character is said to have slurred speech because of a stroke. The narrator gave readers a high pitched, toothless lisp. REALLY????? Do you NOT know the difference between male slurring and a girly lisp???? Why do authors put up with shoddy narrating?? ( )
  briellenadyne | Aug 17, 2016 |
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Author Miles Van Meter is on a book tour to promote his sensational bestseller Sleeping Beauty, a true-crime account of a deeply personal subject: the attack by a serial killer that left his twin sister, Casey, in a coma. Tonight the audience waits to hear Miles discuss recent developments in his sister's case â?? unaware that pieces of this complex puzzle of violence, unknown even to the author, are about to be revealed.

Six years earlier, life was much simpler for everyone involved, especially seventeen-year-old Ashley Spencer, a popular high school soccer star. Then one night an intruder entered Ashley's home and murdered her father and her best friend. Traumatized and suffering from a crippling sense of survivor guilt, Ashley is ready to give up on both soccer and life until help comes from an unexpected source â?? a scholarship to the Oregon Academy, an elite private school, is extended to her by school dean Casey Van Meter. The school quickly becomes a haven for both Ashley and her mother, Terri. As Ashley regains her sense of self through the school's soccer program, Terri joins a writing group for adults led by Joshua Maxfield, a former literary wunderkind who has disappeared from the bestseller lists since his second book was panned by both critics and fans.

Then tragedy strikes again and Ashley has to run for her life, unaware that the key to her survival is in the one book she's afraid to read â?? Sleeping Beauty.

With its blend of dizzying plot twists and thrilling suspense, Sleeping Beauty shows Phillip Margolin at the very top of his f

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