Sleeping Beauty

Informationen zum Autor Phillip Margolin has written nineteen novels, many of them New York Times bestsellers, including his latest novels Woman with a Gun, Worthy Brown’s Daughter, Sleight of Hand , and the Washington trilogy. Each displays a unique, compelling insider’s view of criminal behavior, which comes from his long background as a criminal defense attorney who has handled thirty murder cases. Winner of the Distinguished Northwest Writer Award, he lives in Portland, Oregon. Zusammenfassung 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 .

Product details

• Authors: Philip Margolin, Phillip Margolin
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.03.2004
• EAN: 9780060726812
• ISBN: 978-0-06-072681-2
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Harperluxe Large Print; Harperluxe Large Print
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; FICTION: Family Life / General, FICTION: Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION: Thrillers / Crime, FICTION: Thrillers / Legal, FICTION: Thrillers / General, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / International Crime & Mystery, FICTION: Psychological, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators