Kathryn Dance · Book 1

The Sleeping Doll

by Jeffery Deaver

Published
1 January 2007
Pages
480
ISBN-13
9780743491587
Type
novel

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About this book

The Sleeping Doll is the novel that opens Jeffery Deaver's Kathryn Dance series, published in 2007. It's followed here by Roadside Crosses. It's the natural place to begin the series, which has continued since 2007.

Its place in Kathryn Dance

The Sleeping Doll is book 1 in the Kathryn Dance series. It is followed by Roadside Crosses. See the full Kathryn Dance reading order.

Kathryn Dance is a California Bureau of Investigation agent and kinesics expert — a specialist in reading body language and interrogation who solves cases less through forensic science than through watching how people lie. Jeffery Deaver introduced her as a supporting character in the Lincoln Rhyme novel The Cold Moon before spinning her into her own series with The Sleeping Doll in 2007, giving him a protagonist whose investigative method is the deliberate inverse of Rhyme's: Dance works through human psychology…

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