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SLEEPING WITH FEAR
by Kay Hooper
Bantam, May 2007
384 pages
$7.50
ISBN: 0553586009


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SLEEPING WITH FEAR has a heck of grabber opening – Special Agent Riley Crane wakes up in her rented room covered with blood and having no memory of the previous three weeks. She has barely had a chance to clean up and check in with her boss before she is called by local authorities to help with the investigation of a body found in the woods. Well, most of a body. The head is missing.

Part of the mystery is solved quite quickly – Riley's lover (who she doesn't remember meeting) finds taser marks at the base of her skull. That partially explains the loss of memory, and the loss of her talents. For all of the members of Bishop's Special Crimes Unit are very special agents, even by FBI standards – each has a psychic power. Riley is, or at least had been, clairvoyant.

Some of the things she can piece together, such as why she was at that location – an old army buddy had asked for her help. Some things she can fake her way through, such as telling her unexpected lover that she was "much different" when she was working on a case. But others continue to elude her, including memory. The blackouts are continuing, and she is starting to get what seem like visions, but they have been somehow faked – for instance, she sees what might be the murder in the woods, but the crime in the vision does not match all the evidence of the crime scene.

So Riley has multiple puzzles to solve. Who was the man in the woods, who killed him, and why? What was happening to her, who was doing it, and how can she stop it? And who is this man that she just met and now was entangled with? And the worst fear of all – when would she next wake up from a blackout, and how much time would be gone?

Hooper does a tight suspense thriller, and SLEEPING WITH FEAR is no exception. The separate threads of memory loss, current case, and even previous cases, mesh and move relentlessly forward like the gears of a fine-tuned clock ticking down second by remorseless second. Clear plenty of time to read this one, because once it's in your hands, you won't want to put it down.

Reviewed by Linnea Dodson, August 2007

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