--- product_id: 24163672 title: "Sleeping Beauty: A Psychological Suspense Thriller of Serial Murder and Hidden Secrets" price: "€ 23.03" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.hr/products/24163672-sleeping-beauty-a-psychological-suspense-thriller-of-serial-murder-hidden store_origin: HR region: Croatia --- # Sleeping Beauty: A Psychological Suspense Thriller of Serial Murder and Hidden Secrets **Price:** € 23.03 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Sleeping Beauty: A Psychological Suspense Thriller of Serial Murder and Hidden Secrets - **How much does it cost?** € 23.03 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.hr](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/24163672-sleeping-beauty-a-psychological-suspense-thriller-of-serial-murder-hidden) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Seventeen-year-old Ashley Spencer learned what true horror was the night a serial killer invaded her home and brutally murdered her father and her best friend. But the terror did not end there . . . A year after the unspeakable events, Ashley is still trying to piece together what is left of her life. But the nightmare is reawakened at the elite private school that had appeared to be a safe haven for Ashley and her mother, Terri, when a new book called Sleeping Beauty hits the national bestseller lists—a shattering true account of the crimes that ripped Ashley’s world apart. And now Ashley must run for her life again. Review: You Will Lose Sleep Reading This Beauty - Phillip Margolin has never disappointed me yet with his novels, and with Sleeping Beauty, his streak continues. In this novel things are seldom what they seem and it would spoil the read for me to reveal the twists and turns that this story takes. The straight forward story is that Ashley Spencer, a high school soccer star has a friend to her house for a sleep over following a big game and awakens to the most terrifying experience one can imagine. A masked stranger is in their room. He ties up Ashley and takes her friend into another room where he rapes and murders her. Returning to her room, he says, "I'll see you later" and she hears him go down to the kitchen. Her father, who is the only parent in the house that night crawls into her room suffering from multiple stab wounds and using the last of his energy frees fer from her bonds and she escapes out her window. This appears to be a random event until Ashley's mother is taking a creative writing course at a nearby private school in which Ashley has enrolled and hears the instructor read a passage from a piece of writing that describes the event that her daughter has gone through and also includes a part of what happened that received no publicity. She eventually determines that no one in the class wrote the story and that it was drafted by the instructor, Joshua Maxwell, himself. Her suspicions are aroused to the point where she confides them to the Dean of the school who checks out the instructor's background and calls the mother suggesting a meeting to discuss what she has found. While jogging on the school grounds near where the meeting is taking place, Ashley hears a scream and decides to investigate. What she sees as she peers in the window are the bodies of two women lying on the floor (the Dean and Ashley's mother) and Joshua Maxwell standing over them with a bloody knife in his hands. He sees her as she turns and runs for her life with Maxwell in pursuit. She escapes, the story is out, Maxwell is pursued and eventually arrested and brought to trial. And the story is JUST BEGINNING. Margolin uses an interesting vehicle in telling the story. The Dean, Casey Van Meter, was not murdered, but ended up in a coma. Her brother, Miles Van Meter has written a book about the events leading up to her being in the coma entitled, Sleeping Beauty. A continuing thread in this book is his presence at a book signing where he reads from the book and answers questions about it. I will leave it to the reader to explore the intracies of this very well told tale. It is an undertaking that will be well worth the effort. Review: Sleeping Beauty - Sidney Sheldon was one of my favorite authors and I have read almost everything he has written Sleeping Beauty was an excellent read I finished it in three days It was fast moving and suspenseful Mr. Sheldon is a master at writing this type of novel. I have two more of his novels to read then I will have read everything he has written. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #2,325,741 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #10,935 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction #13,032 in Murder Thrillers #28,807 in Suspense Thrillers | | Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 679 Reviews | ## Images ![Sleeping Beauty: A Psychological Suspense Thriller of Serial Murder and Hidden Secrets - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61+tDd0VAUL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ You Will Lose Sleep Reading This Beauty *by J***L on April 29, 2004* Phillip Margolin has never disappointed me yet with his novels, and with Sleeping Beauty, his streak continues. In this novel things are seldom what they seem and it would spoil the read for me to reveal the twists and turns that this story takes. The straight forward story is that Ashley Spencer, a high school soccer star has a friend to her house for a sleep over following a big game and awakens to the most terrifying experience one can imagine. A masked stranger is in their room. He ties up Ashley and takes her friend into another room where he rapes and murders her. Returning to her room, he says, "I'll see you later" and she hears him go down to the kitchen. Her father, who is the only parent in the house that night crawls into her room suffering from multiple stab wounds and using the last of his energy frees fer from her bonds and she escapes out her window. This appears to be a random event until Ashley's mother is taking a creative writing course at a nearby private school in which Ashley has enrolled and hears the instructor read a passage from a piece of writing that describes the event that her daughter has gone through and also includes a part of what happened that received no publicity. She eventually determines that no one in the class wrote the story and that it was drafted by the instructor, Joshua Maxwell, himself. Her suspicions are aroused to the point where she confides them to the Dean of the school who checks out the instructor's background and calls the mother suggesting a meeting to discuss what she has found. While jogging on the school grounds near where the meeting is taking place, Ashley hears a scream and decides to investigate. What she sees as she peers in the window are the bodies of two women lying on the floor (the Dean and Ashley's mother) and Joshua Maxwell standing over them with a bloody knife in his hands. He sees her as she turns and runs for her life with Maxwell in pursuit. She escapes, the story is out, Maxwell is pursued and eventually arrested and brought to trial. And the story is JUST BEGINNING. Margolin uses an interesting vehicle in telling the story. The Dean, Casey Van Meter, was not murdered, but ended up in a coma. Her brother, Miles Van Meter has written a book about the events leading up to her being in the coma entitled, Sleeping Beauty. A continuing thread in this book is his presence at a book signing where he reads from the book and answers questions about it. I will leave it to the reader to explore the intracies of this very well told tale. It is an undertaking that will be well worth the effort. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sleeping Beauty *by M***S on October 3, 2016* Sidney Sheldon was one of my favorite authors and I have read almost everything he has written Sleeping Beauty was an excellent read I finished it in three days It was fast moving and suspenseful Mr. Sheldon is a master at writing this type of novel. I have two more of his novels to read then I will have read everything he has written. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Book *by T***Z on April 8, 2019* Great book. Phillip Margolin is a great writer. Keeps you guessing till the end. 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