Anna O
A Novel
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3.7 • 53 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
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What if your nightmares weren’t really nightmares at all?
We spend an average of thirty-three years of our lives asleep. But what really happens, and what are we capable of, when we are sleeping?
Anna Ogilvy is a budding twenty-five-year-old writer with a bright future. Then, one night, she stabs two people to death in her sleep and never wakes up. Anna, now dubbed “Sleeping Beauty” by the tabloids, has a rare psychosomatic disorder known as resignation syndrome.
Dr. Benedict Prince is a forensic psychologist and an expert in the field of sleep-related homicides. To solve the case, he must wake up Anna so she can stand trial. But he has to be careful. Anna’s a high-profile suspect—and he’s got career secrets and a complicated personal life of his own.
As Anna shows the first signs of stirring, Benedict must determine what really happened and whether she should be held responsible for her crimes. Only Anna knows the truth about that night, and only Benedict knows how to discover it. But what they find out may put them both in grave danger.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Former political speech writer Blake debuts with a devilishly twisty psychological thriller about a woman accused of killing her best friends and then falling into a deep sleep. Forensic psychologist Benedict Prince specializes in sleep-related crimes, studying instances of reckless driving, murder, and robbery committed while the perpetrators were asleep. His article on a possible cure for "resignation syndrome," or involuntary extended sleep, has brought him to the attention of officials at England's Ministry of Justice, who want Prince to revive 25-year-old editor Anna Ogilvy, so she can be tried for murder: Anna's been asleep for several years, ever since she was found beside a bloody knife in a cabin next door to the corpses of two of her friends. As Prince attempts to stir Anna, he looks into the factors that might have driven her to violence. Interwoven throughout Prince's investigation are chapters focused on a pseudonymous character who's researching the case for their own obscured purposes, as well as entries from Anna's missing diary, which cover the days leading up to the murders. Blake never lets the reader, or his hero, get comfortable, delivering one game-changing twist after another all the way through to the final sucker punch. The exhilarating results are likely to shock even seasoned thriller fans.
Customer Reviews
Wow!
It was very hard to put this book down. I couldn’t sleep. All my nails are chewed beyond recognition
Nope, sorry
I really wanted to like this story, it had so much promise. However all the characters are utterly unlikable, the story is convoluted and confusing and the whole book is 100 pages too long. I got to the end and still don’t fully understand who did what to whom.