I Know Where You Sleep

I read “I Know Where You Sleep” by Alan Orloff in prepublication form. It has sense been released as an Amazon ebook. It’s a story about a young and beautiful woman Jessica Smith who could not shake a stalker. She sought help from Anderson West, a PI. And, when Jessica could not afford his fees, he quickly agreed to take this matter on a pro bono basis. From the beginning, the author let us know that Jessica was not a particularly believable person and did not give West all the necessary information about her past, including that she had formally changed her name 5 or 6 years earlier. As a reader, I did not find myself drawn to either of these primary characters. The most interesting character in the story was West’s sister Carrie who he was employing as an office manager and helper. As a younger woman she had a particularly dark story including having been savagely abused. In her attempt to master that old trauma, she had become a maniacal advocate for abused women, and she was sure that Jessica had been badly abused. But the flow of the plot was uneven and draggy in some long passages. I was about to abandon this story at about the 25% mark, but then Orloff introduced Carrie and that kept me engaged through the end of the novel. As much as I respect the author’s effort to spin the story, this one just did not work for me.