Greg Iles is a versatile writer, which is both good and...sometimes less good (I hesitate to say versatility is ever a bad thing). Sleep No More is a foray into the supernatural: Happily married Natchez, Mississippi, lawyer John Waters is disturbed by the attentions of Eve Sumner, a new realtor in town. Not only does she drip sex appeal, but she claims to be the reincarnation of his college girlfriend, the oversexed, unstable, passionate, and disturbed Mallory Candler, murdered a decade earlier. And she knows things only Mallory and John should know. She reawakens feelings that could cost him his marriage, child, and livelihood, and he struggles to make sense of her claims to be Mallory.
This is a fast-paced, entertaining read, but it's not Isles at his best. Some of his other Natchez novels, such as Blood Memory, are stronger and more intense reads.
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