Let the Devil Sleep
- Published
- 1 January 2012
- Pages
- 464
- ISBN-13
- 9780141960173
- Type
- novel
About this book
Let the Devil Sleep is the third entry in John Verdon's Dave Gurney series, running 464 pages when it appeared in 2012. Like its predecessors, it draws Gurney's forensic, detail-obsessed mind into a killer's elaborate scheme set against the rural upstate New York landscape where he and Madeleine settled.
Key facts about Let the Devil Sleep
John Verdon wrote Let the Devil Sleep, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2012. The book has 464 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780141960173 to find the main one.
Let the Devil Sleep is book 3 of 8 in the Dave Gurney series. The series has 8 published books. However, the series starts with Think of a Number (2010). The Viper is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 18 July 2023.
That series sits on our mystery shelf. Meanwhile, The Viper is the latest published John Verdon book on file, from 18 July 2023.
About John Verdon
John P. Verdon was born January 1, 1942, in the Bronx, New York, and educated at Regis High School and Fordham University. He spent his early career as a creative director in New York advertising agencies before retiring with his wife, Naomi, to a rural property in the western foothills of the Catskill Mountains, where he spent roughly a decade designing and building Shaker-style furniture. See every John Verdon book in order.
Its place in Dave Gurney
Let the Devil Sleep is book 3 in the Dave Gurney series. It follows Shut Your Eyes Tight. It is followed by Peter Pan Must Die. See the full Dave Gurney reading order.
Dave Gurney is a retired NYPD homicide detective -- one of the department's most celebrated, with an unmatched closure record -- who moves with his wife Madeleine to a farmhouse in rural upstate New York expecting a quiet retirement, and instead keeps getting pulled back into puzzle-box murder investigations that only his particular gift for pattern recognition can unravel. John Verdon launched the series in 2010 with Think of a Number , in which a stranger mails Gurney's old acquaintance a letter correctly…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780141960173