Sleeping Beauty plunges detective Lew Archer into a fascinating and intricate case connected to a disastrous oil spill o... (more)
Sleeping Beauty plunges detective Lew Archer into a fascinating and intricate case connected to a disastrous oil spill on the Southern California coast. He becomes involved with three generations of the imposing Lennox family whose offshore oil platform caused the spill; and whose young heiress, glimpsed for a haunting moment on the beach-clutching an oil-drenched sea bird in her arms, has disappeared. While on her trail Archer finds himself journeying into a horrendous past, into the hidden lives of a family twisted by money, power, and a compulsive instinct for infidelity, between husbands and wives, parents and children, friends, dependents, duty, and ultimately to the earth itself. (less)