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Jeffery Deaver - The Sleeping Doll

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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 crimes 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 Dances 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 cant 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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Contents SEPTEMBER13 1999 MONDAY Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 - photo 1

Contents

SEPTEMBER13, 1999

MONDAY

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

TUESDAY

Chapter 21

Page 1

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

WEDNESDAY

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

THURSDAY

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Page 2

Chapter 45

Chapter 46

Chapter 47

Chapter 48

Chapter 49

Chapter 50

Chapter 51

Chapter 52

Chapter 53

Chapter 54

Chapter 55

Chapter 56

Chapter 57

FRIDAY

Chapter 58

Chapter 59

Chapter 60

SATURDAY

Chapter 61

Chapter 62

Chapter 63

Authors Note

About the Author

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*Novels featuring Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs

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BY THESAMEAUTHOR

More Twisted: Collected Stories, Vol. II

The Cold Moon*

The Twelfth Card*

Garden of Beasts

Twisted: Collected Stories

The Vanished Man*

The Stone Monkey*

The Blue Nowhere

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The Empty Chair*

Speaking in Tongues

The Devils Teardrop

The Coffin Dancer*

The Bone Collector*

A Maidens Grave

Praying for Sleep

The Lesson of Her Death

Mistress of Justice

Hard News

Death of a Blue Movie Star

Manhattan Is My Beat

Hells Kitchen

Bloody River Blues

Shallow Graves

A Century of Great Suspense Stories(Editor)

A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime(Editor)

Mary Shelleys Frankenstein(Introduction)

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright 2007 by Jeffery Deaver

All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. The Boxer

Copyright 1968 Paul Simon

Used by permission of the publisher: Paul Simon Music

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SIMON& SCHUSTERand colophon are registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Deaver, Jeffery.

The sleeping doll / by Jeffery Deaver.

p. cm.

1. PolicewomenFiction. 2. CaliforniaFiction. I. Title.

PS3554.E1755S58 2007

813'.54dc22 2006038548

ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-4586-6

ISBN-10: 1-4165-4586-7

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Contents

SEPTEMBER13, 1999

MONDAY

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Page 7

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

TUESDAY

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

WEDNESDAY

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Page 8

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

THURSDAY

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Chapter 45

Chapter 46

Chapter 47

Chapter 48

Chapter 49

Chapter 50

Chapter 51

Chapter 52

Chapter 53

Chapter 54

Chapter 55

Chapter 56

Chapter 57

Page 9

FRIDAY

Chapter 58

Chapter 59

Chapter 60

SATURDAY

Chapter 61

Chapter 62

Chapter 63

Authors Note

About the Author

SEPTEMBER13, 1999

SON OF MANSON FOUND GUILTY IN CROYTON FAMILY MURDERS

SALINAS, CALIFORNIADaniel Raymond Pell, 35, was convicted today on four counts of first-degree murder and one count of manslaughter by a Monterey County jury after only five hours of deliberations.

Justice has been done, lead prosecutor James J. Reynolds told reporters after the verdict was announced. This is an extremely dangerous man, who committed horrendous crimes.

Pell became known as the Son of Manson because of the parallels between his life and that of convicted murderer Charles Manson, who in 1969 was responsible for the ritualistic slayings of the actress Sharon Tate and several other individuals in Southern California. Police found many books and articles about Manson in Pells house following his arrest.

The murder convictions were for the May 7 deaths of William Croyton, his wife and two of their three children in Carmel, Calif., 120 miles south of San Francisco. The manslaughter charge arose from the death of James Newberg, 24, who lived with Pell and accompanied him to the Croyton house the night of the murders. The prosecutor asserted that Newberg initially intended to assist in the murders but was then killed by Pell after he changed his mind.

Croyton, 56, was a wealthy electrical engineer and computer innovator. His Cupertino, Calif., company, in the heart of Silicon Valley, produces state-of-the-art programs that are found in much of the worlds most popular personal computer software.

Because of Pells interest in Manson, there was speculation that the killings had ideological overtones, as did the murders for which Manson was convicted, but robbery was the most likely reason for the break-in, Reynolds said. Pell has dozens of prior convictions for shoplifting, burglary and robbery, dating back to his teens.

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