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Crime, recovery, twists, survival—bestseller uncovers truth.

If you've got an appetite for a gripping true-crime story wrapped in personal stakes, Phillip Margolin's "Sleeping Beauty" is a page-turner you shouldn't miss. As you delve into the pages, you'll find yourself alongside characters healing from trauma, grappling with guilt, and caught in a whirlwind of unpredictable plot twists that keep you guessing. This book offers both an emotional journey and a cerebral challenge, making it a perfect companion for those nights you crave a mystery that resonates on a deeper human level.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Sleeping Beauty

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ISBN: 9780060083267
Authors: Phillip Margolin
Publisher: Harper
Date of Publication: 2004-03-23
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Drama, Mystery/Crime/Thriller, Horror
Related Topics: Mystery, Suspense, Crime, Thriller
Goodreads rating: 3.93
(rated by 3741 readers)

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Author Miles Van Meter is on a book tour to promote his sensational bestseller Sleeping Beauty, a true-crime account of a deeply personal subject: the attack by a serial killer that left his twin sister, Casey, in a coma. Tonight the audience waits to hear Miles discuss recent developments in his sister's case -- unaware that pieces of this complex puzzle of violence, unknown even to the author, are about to be revealed. Six years earlier, life was much simpler for everyone involved, especially seventeen-year-old Ashley Spencer, a popular high school soccer star. Then one night an intruder entered Ashley's home and murdered her father and her best friend. Traumatized and suffering from a crippling sense of survivor guilt, Ashley is ready to give up on both soccer and life until help comes from an unexpected source -- a scholarship to the Oregon Academy, an elite private school, is extended to her by school dean Casey Van Meter. The school quickly becomes a haven for both Ashley and her mother, Terri. As Ashley regains her sense of self through the school's soccer program, Terri joins a writing group for adults led by Joshua Maxfield, a former literary wunderkind who has disappeared from the bestseller lists since his second book was panned by both critics and fans. Then 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. With its
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Crime, recovery, twists, survival—bestseller uncovers truth.

If you've got an appetite for a gripping true-crime story wrapped in personal stakes, Phillip Margolin's "Sleeping Beauty" is a page-turner you shouldn't miss. As you delve into the pages, you'll find yourself alongside characters healing from trauma, grappling with guilt, and caught in a whirlwind of unpredictable plot twists that keep you guessing. This book offers both an emotional journey and a cerebral challenge, making it a perfect companion for those nights you crave a mystery that resonates on a deeper human level.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.