The New York Time-bestselling Dead Sleep brought Greg Iles more fans than any of his novels to date. Critics used words like "ingenious" (The New York Times Book Review} and "stunning" (People} to describe its potent mix of evocative southern setting, passionate characterizations, and dramatic action.
With Sleep No More, Iles returns to the territory of some of his best-loved works, the steamy, hypnotic small-town Mississippi where he spent his own childhood. In this new novel, John Waters is a man happy with his lot in life: genuine satisfaction with his growing business, contentment with the ease of family routines, and the pleasures of watching his daughter bloom. But this happiness is hard-won, and may be less stable than he would like to believe.
Years earlier, Waters escaped an obsessive love affair with the ravishing but disturbed Mallory Candler, a love that he feared might consume him. Mallory disappeared after Waters married, and later he heard that she had been killed in New Orleans. Now, however, he has the uneasy feeling that the secrets they shared have resurfaced to trouble him-and entice him-once again.
A woman he meets casually stuns him with a smile.
While he tries to find out how this stranger is connected to his past, an act of brutal violence interrupts them and sweeps him up in a whirlwind of guilt and suspicion, revealing the shadow sides of love and friendship- and the terror that can result when passion becomes obsession.