cmaw63's Full Review: Kay Hooper - Sleeping With Fear
Within the last few years, Kay Hooper has become one of the authors I most enjoy reading. With her new book, Sleeping With Fear, she has entered the number two position, right behind Dean Koontz. I bought this book last night and finished it before bedtime. I couldn't put it down.
Sleeping With Fear
Special Agent Riley Crane is part of the FBI's elite Special Crimes Unit. What is special about this unit? They all have unusual abilities that include telepathy, spider senses, clairvoyance, and more.
Riley is clairvoyant and a specialist on the Occult. Given vacation time to recover from a recent run in with a mass murderer, she chooses to use it to help an old military friend, Gordon, clear up odd occurrences on Opal Island.
The burning of two abandoned buildings, inverted crosses burned into wood, and what appears to be the remains of satanic rituals indicate that something is going on, but nothing worthy of a major investigation. Nothing, that is, until the discovery of a headless human sacrifice. Riley is now officially on the case.
During her investigation Riley is attacked, losing her memory of the previous three weeks and her special abilities. Random images and thoughts allow her to identify Deputy Leah Wells, Sheriff Jake Ballard, and District Attorney Ash Prescott. Riley is, also, able to identify members of a group that practice satan worship, that they claim is benign, that are staying not far from where she is.
Fighting to fill the holes in her memory and reclaim her psychic abilities, Riley finds someone that will save her, another that will try to destroy her, and even those she has trusted in the past has kept secrets.
Wow Factor
Many things in Sleeping With Fear made this an outstanding book for me.
I had a suspect that I thought was the villain...I was so wrong. I love it when a book takes an intelligent twist. The main characters are interesting and have their own personalities. There aren't any cut and paste people in this book.
The storyline stays consistent bringing together the past and the present. While there were "flashbacks" they stayed within context of this book.
I have enjoyed many of Kay Hooper's books that featured members of the FBI special Crimes Unit, including the "Evil" and "Fear" series. Sleeping With Fear brings a new level of reader enjoyment to the group.
Sleeping With Fear starts strong, stays strong, and finishes strong. There wasn't one thing I would have changed. It is definitely one of the better books I've read in a while.
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