The poster boy for schlock (The Best Laid Plans, 1997, etc.) calls
on the cops, the courts, and the shrinks for his latest soaper,
this one based on actual murder trials. Meet Ashley Patterson, a
typical Sheldon nice girl: slim figure, patrician features, and "a
quiet elegance about her." Only a curmudgeon could dislike Ashley.
Is the fact that she lacks spark, style, wit, warmth, warts, edge,
or any other at all interesting aspect of personality her fault? Of
course not. The fault is Sheldon's, who never came up with a
character he couldn't turn into cardboard. Still, there's a
problem: If no one actually dislikes Ashley, then how to explain
the scary stalking of Ms. Bland Perfection? The lipsticked hate
message scrawled abruptly on her mirror? The mysterious nastiness
atwirl on her computer screen? And then, when all of the
appropriate men get murdered and mutilated, why would anyone want
to frame the estimable Ashley? To the cops that answer is obvious -
no one would. They claim the evidence against her is overwhelming.
Most others agree, including Judge Williams, scheduled to preside
at Ashley's trial. She summons David Singer, Ashley's lawyer, to
her chambers and all but orders him to "plead your client to life
without parole." If he refuses, he'll be sorry. What's behind this
remarkable intervention from the bench? Nothing more nefarious,
Sheldon gives us to understand, than good citizenship in action:
Judge Williams simply wants to save taxpayers the expense of a
lengthy and unnecessary trial. (No stickler for the Constitution,
that judge.) Both sides assemble their shrinks: dueling lawyers,
dueling psychiatrists, a grueling trial. The verdict is
predictable, but - to give Sheldon his due - the denouement is not.
Primer-ish prose and flat characters a la Sheldon. Still, whatever
it is that's worked before will here almost certainly work again.
(Kirkus Reviews)
SOMEONE WAS FOLLOWING HER . . .
"She had read about stalkers, but they belonged in a different faraway world. She had no idea who it could be, who would want to harm her. She was trying desperately not to panic, but lately her sleep had been filled with nightmares each morning with a feeling of impending doom."
Thus begins Sidney Sheldon's chilling novel, 'Tell Me Your Dreams'. Three beautiful young women are suspected of committing a series of brutal murders. The police make an arrest that leads to one of the most bizarre murder trials of the century. Based on real medical cases, Sheldon's novel races from London to Rome to the city of Quebec to San Francisco, with a climax that will leave the reader stunned.
"If you want a novel you simply cannot put down, go to Sheldon"
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
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