Simon and Schuster
June 2007
On Sale: June 5, 2007
Featuring: Kathryn Dancer; Daniel Pell
448 pages ISBN: 0743260945 EAN: 9780743260947 Hardcover Add to Wish List
When Special Agent Kathryn Dance -- a brilliant
interrogator and kinesics expert with the California Bureau
of Investigation -- is sent to question the convicted
killer Daniel "Son of Manson" Pell as a suspect in a newly
unearthed crime, she feels both trepidation and
electrifying intrigue. Pell is serving a life sentence for
the brutal murders of the wealthy Croyton family in Carmel
years earlier -- a crime mirroring those perpetrated by
Charles Manson in the 1960s. But Pell and his cult members
were sloppy: Not only were they apprehended, they even left
behind a survivor -- the youngest of the Croyton daughters,
who, because she was in bed hidden by her toys that
terrible night, was dubbed the Sleeping Doll.
But the girl never spoke about that night, nor did the
crime's mastermind. Indeed, Pell has long been both
reticent and unrepentant about the crime. And so with the
murderer transported from the Capitola superprison to an
interrogation room in the Monterey County Courthouse, Dance
sees an opportunity to pry a confession from him for the
recent murder -- and to learn more about the depraved mind
of this career criminal who considers himself a master of
control, a dark Svengali, forcing people to do what they
otherwise would never conceive of doing. In an electrifying
psychological jousting match, Dance calls up all her skills
as an interrogator and kinesics -- body language -- expert
to get to the truth behind Daniel Pell.
But when Dance's plan goes terribly wrong and Pell escapes,
leaving behind a trail of dead and injured, she finds
herself in charge of her first-ever manhunt. But far from
simply fleeing, Pell turns 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 turns to the past to find the
truth about what Daniel Pell is really up to. She tracks
down the now teenage Sleeping Doll to learn what really
happened that night, and she arranges a reunion of three
women who were in his cult at the time of the killings. The
lies of the past and the evasions of the present boil up
under the relentless probing of Kathryn Dance, but will the
truth about Daniel Pell emerge in time to stop him from
killing again?
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