About this product Product Identifiers Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group ISBN-10 038553891X ISBN-13 9780385538916 eBay Product ID (ePID) 3038306376 Product Key Features Book Title Sleepwalker : a Novel Number of Pages 304 Pages Language English Topic Thrillers / Psychological, Thrillers / General, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Romance / Suspense Publication Year 2017 Genre Fiction Author Chris Bohjalian Format Hardcover Dimensions Item Height 1 in Item Weight 20.2 Oz Item Length 9.6 in Item Width 6.5 in Additional Product Features Intended Audience Trade LCCN 2016-015531 Reviews "Masterful... The Sleepwalker is Bohjalian at his best: a creepily compelling topic and an illusionist's skill at tightening the tension. This is a novel worth losing sleep over." --Patty Rhule, USA Today "The kind of mystery that builds to a startling climax, the kind that makes the reader wonder how such a trick was pulled off...Bohjalian does a masterful job." --Clea Simon, the Boston Globe "Sex, secrets and the mysteries of sleep: These are the provocative ingredients in Chris Bohjalian's spooky thriller The Sleepwalker . It's a dark, Hitchcockian novel... Trust me, you will not be able to stop thinking about it days after you finish reading this book." --Carol Memmott, The Washington Post "Literary and compelling, a combination so rare I'm tempted to apply for federal intervention. . . I hesitate to say more, because to know too much may spoil the fun of discovery. Rest assured the denouement is perfect. This is Bohjalian at his very best." --Curt Shleier, The Seattle Times "A perfectly crafted surprise ending... Bohjalian succeeds in making us accomplices in a dark world we never knew existed." --Laura Patten, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Great mystery writers, like great magicians, have the ability to hide the truth that's right before your eyes. Best-selling novelist Chris Bohjalian is at the full power of his literary legerdemain in his newest book, The Sleepwalker ... Bohjalian teases and tantalizes the reader... Masterful plotting evokes a magician who distracts his audience to look this way, not that way. The ending will have the reader rereading for missed clues. The Sleepwalker is Bohjalian at his best: a creepily compelling topic and an illusionist's skill at tightening the tension. This is a novel worth losing sleep over." --Patty Rhule, USA Today "Sex, secrets and the mysteries of sleep: These are the provocative ingredients in Chris Bohjalian's spooky thriller The Sleepwalker . It's a dark, Hitchcockian novel... Trust me, you will not be able to stop thinking about it days after you finish reading this book." --Carol Memmott, The Washington Post "After a chronic sleepwalker goes missing, the general consensus is accidental death. But nothing is what it seems in this gripping mystery." -- Cosmopolitan "Literary and compelling, a combination so rare I'm tempted to apply for federal intervention. . . I hesitate to say more, because to know too much may spoil the fun of discovery. Rest assured the denouement is perfect. This is Bohjalian at his very best." --Curt Shleier, The Seattle Times "A perfectly crafted surprise ending... Bohjalian succeeds in making us accomplices in a dark world we never knew existed." --Laura Patten, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "It takes unexpected answers to solve this mystery. Bohjalian's latest will captivate readers who crave an edge-of-your-seat page-turner they can't put down." --Susan Carr, Library Journal (Starred Review) "This stylish fusion of mystery and domestic thriller from Bohjalian explores the aftermath of the inexplicable disappearance of a woman prone to sleepwalking... Powered by brilliantly rendered characters, an intriguing topic (parasomnia), and a darkly lyrical narrative that captures the melancholic tone of autumn in New England perfectly." -- Publishers Weekly "One night when her professor husband is out of town, and while her teenage daughters sleep in their rooms, Annalee Ahlberg walks out her front door and heads toward the river. She is never seen again... Bohjalian raises essential questions of identity and heredity, sexuality and desire, bringing the Ahlberg family conundrum into focus with a didn't-see-that-one-coming powerhouse ending." --Carol Haggas, Booklist "Bohjalian... never writes the same book twice... His new novel is suspense with a twist." --Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal " The Sleepwalker is more than a mystery: it's a beautiful, wrenching novel of family secrets and the enigmas that link husbands and wives and lovers. And then that ending? Devastating and perfect." --Harlan Coben, "One night when her professor husband is out of town, and while her teenage daughters sleep in their rooms, Annalee Ahlberg walks out her front door and heads toward the river. She is never seen again... Bohjalian raises essential questions of identity and heredity, sexuality and desire, bringing the Ahlberg family conundrum into focus with a didn't-see-that-one-coming powerhouse ending." --Carol Haggas, Booklist "Bohjalian... never writes the same book twice... His new novel is suspense with a twist." --Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal " The Sleepwalker is more than a mystery: it's a beautiful, wrenching novel of family secrets and the enigmas that link husbands and wives and lovers. And then that ending? Devastating and perfect." --Harlan Coben "This stylish fusion of mystery and domestic thriller from Bohjalian explores the aftermath of the inexplicable disappearance of a woman prone to sleepwalking... Powered by brilliantly rendered characters, an intriguing topic (parasomnia), and a darkly lyrical narrative that captures the melancholic tone of autumn in New England perfectly." --Publishers Weekly, "It takes unexpected answers to solve this mystery. Bohjalian's latest will captivate readers who crave an edge-of-your-seat page-turner they can't put down." -- Library Journal (Starred Review) "After a chronic sleepwalker goes missing, the general consensus is accidental death. But nothing is what it seems in this gripping mystery." -- Cosmopolitan "One night when her professor husband is out of town, and while her teenage daughters sleep in their rooms, Annalee Ahlberg walks out her front door and heads toward the river. She is never seen again... Bohjalian raises essential questions of identity and heredity, sexuality and desire, bringing the Ahlberg family conundrum into focus with a didn't-see-that-one-coming powerhouse ending." --Carol Haggas, Booklist "Bohjalian... never writes the same book twice... His new novel is suspense with a twist." --Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal " The Sleepwalker is more than a mystery: it's a beautiful, wrenching novel of family secrets and the enigmas that link husbands and wives and lovers. And then that ending? Devastating and perfect." --Harlan Coben "This stylish fusion of mystery and domestic thriller from Bohjalian explores the aftermath of the inexplicable disappearance of a woman prone to sleepwalking... Powered by brilliantly rendered characters, an intriguing topic (parasomnia), and a darkly lyrical narrative that captures the melancholic tone of autumn in New England perfectly." --Publishers Weekly, "One night when her professor husband is out of town, and while her teenage daughters sleep in their rooms, Annalee Ahlberg walks out her front door and heads toward the river. She is never seen again... Bohjalian raises essential questions of identity and heredity, sexuality and desire, bringing the Ahlberg family conundrum into focus with a didn't-see-that-one-coming powerhouse ending." --Carol Haggas, Booklist "Bohjalian... never writes the same book twice... His new novel is suspense with a twist." --Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal " The Sleepwalker is more than a mystery: it's a beautiful, wrenching novel of family secrets and the enigmas that link husbands and wives and lovers. And then that ending? Devastating and perfect." --Harlan Coben, "Masterful... The Sleepwalker is Bohjalian at his best: a creepily compelling topic and an illusionist's skill at tightening the tension. This is a novel worth losing sleep over." --Patty Rhule, USA Today "The kind of mystery that builds to a startling climax, the kind that makes the reader wonder how such a trick was pulled off...Bohjalian does a masterful job." --Clea Simon, the Boston Globe "Sex, secrets and the mysteries of sleep: These are the provocative ingredients in Chris Bohjalian's spooky thriller The Sleepwalker . It's a dark, Hitchcockian novel... Trust me, you will not be able to stop thinking about it days after you finish reading this book." --Carol Memmott, The Washington Post "Literary and compelling, a combination so rare I'm tempted to apply for federal intervention. . . I hesitate to say more, because to know too much may spoil the fun of discovery. Rest assured the denouement is perfect. This is Bohjalian at his very best." --Curt Shleier, The Seattle Times "A perfectly crafted surprise ending... Bohjalian succeeds in making us accomplices in a dark world we never knew existed." --Laura Patten, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, " The Sleepwalker is more than a mystery: it's a beautiful, wrenching novel of family secrets and the enigmas that link husbands and wives and lovers. And then that ending? Devastating and perfect." -- Harlan Coben "Bohjalian... never writes the same book twice... His new novel is suspense with a twist. Hint: a sleepwalking heroine seems to figure in the shivery plot." -- Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal, "The kind of mystery that builds to a startling climax, the kind that makes the reader wonder how such a trick was pulled off...Bohjalian does a masterful job." --Clea Simon, the Boston Globe "Great mystery writers, like great magicians, have the ability to hide the truth that's right before your eyes. Best-selling novelist Chris Bohjalian is at the full power of his literary
