Kathryn Dance No. 1 When Special Agent Kathryn Dance – an interrogation and kinesics expert with the California Bureau of Investigation – is sent to question the convicted killer Daniel “Son of Manson” Pell as a suspect in a newly-unearthed crime, she feels both trepidation and intense interest. Pell’s in for life the brutal murders of the wealthy Croyton family in Carmel years earlier – a copycat crime of those perpetrated by Charles Manson in the 1960s. But Pell and his cult members were sloppy: Not only were they apprehended, they even left behind a survivor – the youngest of the Croyton daughters, who, because she was in bed hidden by her toys that terrible night, was dubbed the Sleeping Doll. But the girl never spoke about that night – and nor did the crime’s mastermind. Pell has been both reticent and unrepentant about the crime. And so with the murderer transported from the Capitola super-prison to an interrogation room in the Monterey County Courthouse, Dance sees an opportunity to pry a confession from him for the recent murder – and to learn more about the depraved mind of this career criminal who considers himself a master of control, a dark Svengali, forcing people to do what they otherwise would never conceive of doing. It’s a psychological jousting match in which Dance needs all her skills as an interrogator and body language expert to get to the truth behind Daniel Pell.But  Dance’s plan goes terribly wrong –  Pell escapes, leaving behind a trail of dead and injured and she’s in charge of her first-ever manhunt. But far from simply fleeing, Pell turns on his pursuers – and other innocents – for reasons Dance and her colleagues can’t fathom. As the idyllic Monterey Peninsula is paralysed by the elusive killer, Dance turns to the past to find the truth about what Daniel Pell is really up to. She tracks down the now-teenage Sleeping Doll to learn what really happened that night, and she arranges a reunion of three women who were in his cult at the time of the killings. The lies of the past and the evasions of the present boil up under the relentless probing – but will the truth about Pell emerge in time to stop him from killing again?