Miles Van Meter is on a book tour to promote his sensational bestseller Sleeping Beauty, a true-crime account of the attack by a serial killer that left his twin sister, Casey, in a coma. Tonight the audience waits to hear Miles discuss the startling developments that occurred after his book was published, which involve Ashley Spencer, the only other person who survived an attack by this merciless killer.
Six years earlier, life was much simpler for seventeen-year-old Ashley, a popular high school soccer star. Then one night an intruder entered Ashley's home and murdered her father and her best friend. A scholarship to the Oregon Academy, an elite private school with a top-notch soccer program, temporarily provides solace but 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 Sleeping Beauty.
BookPage (winner of the Mystery of the Month and Tip of the Ice Pick Award)
Clever and diabolical....A must for suspense fans.
Tess Gerritsen
Phillip Margolin knows how to pack in the thrills ... SLEEPING BEAUTY will keep you guessing until its shocking end.
Lisa Scottoline
Phillip Margolin [is] one of those rare authors who can create a genuinely surprising ending.
Perri O'Shaughnessy
Phillip Margolin plays delicious tricks on his readers, dashing expectations, twisting the knife deeper, making the suspense really hurt.
Harlan Coben
SLEEPING BEAUTY will keep you awake all night. Phillip Margolin has done it again!
Booklist
Margolin pulls off a genuinely surprising ending.
Albany Times Union
Even the most skeptical reader might be surprised to learn who is responsible for the mayhem.
Fort Myers News-Press
Margolin delivers a nifty sleight of hand....Don’t assume anything in this well-crafted chiller.
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Skillfully plotted … maintains the suspense … one of [Margolin’s] best.
Orlando Sentinel
Sends chills up the spine.
BookPage
Clever and diabolical....A must for suspense fans.
Toronto Sun
Intricately plotted, tense and suspenseful … With unexpected twists and turns, the story moves to an explosive climax.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Compelling....Thrills and chills in a satisfying way [that] keeps you awake and guessing.