Dead Sleep
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ISBN: 0399147357 / Publisher: Putnam Adult, July 2001
A mysterious series of paintings in a Hong Kong art museum, including one featuring a woman who bears a striking resemblance to her, draws photojournalist Jordan Glass into a painful search for the murderer of her twin sister.
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Jordan Glass, a photojournalist, wanders into a Hong Kong art museum and is puzzled to find fellow visitors eyeing her with curiosity. Minutes later, she stumbles on a bizarre collection of paintings that have raised a furor in the art world. Their exhibitions have drawn stunned crowds. Their prices at auction have set records. Their creator is unknown. They are The Sleeping Women - and they are rumored to depict women not in sleep, but in death.This haunting event hurls Jordan back into a nightmare she has fought desperately to put behind her - the search for her missing sister, gone now for more than a year. At the urging of the FBI, Jordan becomes both hunter and hunted in a dangerous game with the anonymous artist, who may also be a gifted murderer - a stranger who knows the secret history of Jordan's family, and the truths she has never found the courage to face.
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