When Lily Hartman goes to wake Annie, a visiting family friend, she discovers to her horror that the woman isn’t sleeping in the guestroom. She’s dead. Someone suffocated her the night before.Detectives Cooper and White are called in to solve the murder. They soon learn that beautiful Annie was really Lily’s husband Rick’s friend. Lily’s DNA is all over the pillow used to smother Annie and there … and there are no signs of a break-in to their apartment. Coupled with the fact that the detectives sense Lily was jealous of Annie, she becomes their main suspect.
Lily, who is a sleepwalker, herself wonders if she is guilty of killing Annie in her sleep. She recently discovered that Rick and Annie were having an affair, so she secretly resents Annie. Is Lily the killer or is someone setting her up? The truth is worse than she can imagine.
NOTE: DEADLY DREAMS is the second book in the Cooper and White murder mystery series. It has no explicit sex and little violence.
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Good read- I didn’t have all of the plot twists figured out, which is a plus!
Wow…quite an unusual page turning novel with may twists and turns…so enjoyed this entertaining story line and characters
page turner for sure, playing mind games
Excellent. Highly recommended.
Weird and wonderful.
Why do I keep doing this to myself? I see a bookbub email and it has a book for free listed that has an interesting enough premise but then I see, By: Julia Derek. I should just delete the email and go about my day, but I’m glutton for punishment and a sucker for free books so I download it, read it and then just sit there like, “WTF was that and why did I even read that crap?”
I have to thank Julia Derek for putting her books out for free for people to read. I’m sure she’s gotten a lot of new fans that way and if her writing is your cup of tea then more power to you. I just find that in every book I’ve read so far the main female character is some perfect life having, yoga pants wearing, kale smoothie drinking, rich Permit Patty married to either a rich scumbag or a rich wonderful guy who puts up with her B.S. when most people would run for the hills. Her books also need a really good editor and some decent proofreading. Deadly Dreams (really poorly chosen title) is exactly what I described a couple sentences ago, and that’s about all there is to it. There’s no twist…if you didn’t see that coming a mile away then you obviously are either the same kind of female or you need to get out in the real world more often.
Interesting. A lot of twists and turns but the book got to be too long.
Sorry, but I couldn’t get past the first 16%. Way too light and breezy tone of voice.
The wife’s husband is having a secret affair with his college “friend” who comes to visit for a weekend after her husband dies of cancer. The buxom beauty is then murdered in the guest room during the night. No one broke in. Did the wife dream the unusual memories after a night of too much wine and not enough love? Puhleeze!
I’m always surprised at the havoc that one person is willing to wreak on another. The final step in the plan didn’t seem to be as well thought-out as what preceded it.
It was ok
This book kept me on the edge of my chair with its twists and turns and wanting to know what happens next.
Unfortunately it’s very predictable in it’s ending.
Hard to rate this book. It’s reasonably well written, and the mystery is pretty good, with a twist at the end that I didn’t see coming. But I never really warmed up to it. It’s pretty light reading for a murder mystery. Maybe I was hoping for something a little meatier.
Interesting
It was a little slow to start but picked up. enjoyed.
Good read!
A great ‘who done it’ story.
Worth the read. I didn’t guess the ending
Although I enjoyed the unusual plot, half way through the who-done-it I knew who did it. That spoiled it for me a little, hence the 3-star rating.
Definitely will look for this author’s books!