TELL ME YOUR DREAMS

Synopsis
A psychological thriller, suspense & fiction
A woman suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder
Ashley Patterson is having awful dreams
She is fearful, paranoid and stalked
Toni Prescott & Alette Peters also enter the story.
The story revolves around these three
Multiple Personality Disorder

Dissociative identity disorder. (DID)

Characterized by distinct and relatively enduring identities.

Controversial psychiatric disorders.

Distinct identities or personality states

Unconscious actions of alter ego

Passive, dependent, guilty and depressed

Alters" are more active, aggressive or hostile.

Majority reports childhood sexual and/or physical abuse.

Life of Sidney Sheldon

Sidney Sheldon (February 11, 1917 January 30, 2007)

Writer for novels, movies and television

First novel, The Naked Face in 1969

He married Jane Kaufman, Jorja Curtright, Alexandra Joyce Kostoff

His daughter Mary Sheldon, became a novelist as well

He struggled with bipolar disorder for years

Sheldons Writing

Poem published in Wee Wisdom magazine at the age of 10

Savored and tasted, relished, but sometimes rejected

Feministic approach, strong women, often mysterious

Talent to keep the reader onto the book till the very end

Opens up the book with an appetizer of mystery

Visualization and characterization, an art Sheldon is master at

Characters
Ashley Patterson

Antonitte/Toni Prescot

Alette Peters

Jim Clearly

Dennis Tibles

Jean Claude

Richard Melton

Deputy Samuel Blake

David Singer

Dr. Gilbert

Steven Patterson

Deputy Gowling

Story Plot

Three women work at Global Computers

Toni and Alette named Ashley Miss Goody-Two-Shoes

5 men have been murdered, castrated & stabbed

Trial starts with the suspect and a medical theory crops up

Now David Singer will reveal the truth

The Real Truth

Jim, Dennis, Richard, Jean and Blake. All 5 were murdered with the same pattern

The horror travels from London to Rome, from Quebec to San Francisco

Jeans gift is found in Ashleys apartment

DNA samples reveal that Ashley, Toni and Alette are the same person ASHLEY PATTERSON

David Singer proves Ashley innocent

Ashley is sent to an asylum where Dr. Gilbert starts her treatment

Sexually abused by her own father

Ashley created Toni at the age of 8

Alette came into being at 16

On recovery, Ashley is freed from asylum

Toni appears in the last scene, contended with the ending

Message

End sexual abuse

How traumas of childhood effect

Issue of MPD

MPD, doer and deeds are separate?

How many Ashleys are we building today?

As A Fan of Sheldon
"I try to construct them so when the reader gets to the end of it, he or she has to read just one more chapter.

Perfect visualization, Sheldons key to success

Descriptive and clear scenes that feel real

Sheldon exploits he curious beings in his stories

The mystery and suspense grips the reader

Both entertainment and a well placed storyline

The ending leaves in another shock, Toni or Ashley?

Criticism

Sheldon weaves together many of his time-tested elements

Left out the suspense and the layers of feeling

We finger at the serial murderer all too quickly

We know before too Ashleys father is monster

We never doubt goodhearted lawyer David Singers fate

Psychiatrist Gilbert Keller, HAS to fall in love with Ashley

A prefatory sentence says the novel is based on real cases

Incredibly slow-moving trial and many events are just unrealistic

The novel has a powerful message that is helping to end child abuse

Understanding of Multiple Personality Disorder, is discussed well

But the art of preaching is not what Sheldon is master of

Readers Comments

I really enjoyed this book. It is well written and the plot is interesting, without being complicated.
(Namhla)

This was the very first book of Sydney Sheldon that I had read. Now Im the type of person that it takes A
LOT for me to get into a book let alone finish one. Once I started reading this book I did not put it down once
till I finished it. (Kat Fiscus)

I enjoy Sidney Sheldon books, but this one was a no brainer; I guessed the who, what where and why. I
would not recommend this book. (Paulette)

The shocking truth about the murders was so easy to figure out I kept thinking this can't be it, can it? There
must be a twist on top of the twist. I actually came up with a few ideas myself, without much mental strain,
so why couldn't Sheldon have done it? After all, he's the author here. Bad, bad, bad

Last Word

There are some authors whose books we read just so that the end can thrill us. Sidney Sheldon is of course,
one such author

Ending leaves you thoughtful, Sheldons trap maybe?

The book nonetheless is readable

Successful address to the issue of sexual violence against females

Sheldon deserves huge amounts of respect for writing this book

Urge to read Sheldon more, will take place.

STORY PLOT
The story revolves around a gorgeous, workaholic and brainy techie named Ashley Patterson, who
works at a leading firm at the silicon valley, Toni Prescott, who loves to sing, party and enjoy, and
Alette Peters - who loves artwork and has inborn talent of painting .Ashley fears she's been stalked by
someone and fears that her life could be in danger. Her father, Dr. Steven Patterson, a famous cardiac
surgeon always warns her about men and relationships and was the reason for her teen age breakup
as well, which saw them move out of London, just after her graduation. Her father also warned her
about Dennis Tibble, her co-worker, who always flirted with her, soon he was brutally murdered and
Ashley comes into suspect. Alette goes to Rome where she meets an artist whom she had previously
known, but later after Alette leaves him, he is found to be murdered. On the other side Toni visits
Quebec city and meets Jean claude, whome she knew via an online chat room and he gifts her an
Emerald ring, asks her to accompany her for lunch and asks her to join her, which she rejects.
When nothing is going proper in Ashley's her life, two identical murders happen at Rome and
Quebec, where Toni and Alette had been, and in both the cases the men were brutally killed and
castrated after sex, while Alette and Toni had nothing to do with the murders, also the police couldn't
trace them. A few days later Ashley finds a warning message " You will die" written with red lipstick on
her dressing table mirror. In this fear she asks Deputy Sam Blake to stay at her place to safeguard her.
When she wakes up the next day, she is arrested for the murder of depty Sam Blake and also, found to
be guilty of the previous two murders which occurred at Rome and Quebec.
Upon investigations, the DNA samples collected from the site of murder matched Ashley Patterson.
she is found to have been present at all the three murder spots, but has no idea or any memory about
any of these incidences and was actually telling the truth when subjected to Polygraph test (a lie
detector). How could it be that she could be present at the spot, but had not committed any cold
blooded murder ?? Ashley was soon to undergo her trial as all the evidences pointed her to be involved
in those murders.

David Singer is a corporate lawyer, who worked with a private firm, sees the news about Ashley
Patterson being convicted and remembers her father Dr. Patterson who saved her mothers life and in
turn David worked as a driver for him (during his days of studying criminal law) in order to repay him
for saving his mother's life. Soon David was to become the leading lawyer of his firm and makes major
plans along with his wife Sandra. Later in the day he is approached by Dr Patterson to take up his
daughter's case. For the sake of the firm he initially rejects it, but later after visiting Ashley, he decided
to take up the case and have a break from the private firm.
Soon David revisits her with a leading psychotheraphist Dr. Royce Salem, who diagnoses her to have
Multiple personality disorder (MPD) and found to have Toni and Alette within her. As days passed the
trail begins and David faces a whole lot of challenges as he defends Ashley. Unfortunately, the court
doesn't accept on any of the proofs shown by David in support of his client Ashley. And, when the trial
comes to the final day, David tricks Ashley under hypnosis from Dr Salem and records a video and
presents it to the court, which later proves her alter to have found to commit the murder and decides
to send her to a psychotherapist rehab center where she would be treated.
At the rehab asylum, Dr Gilbert decides to treat her and tries to find out the horrid reasons for the
birth of these two insane characters within her. As Gilbert tries to dedicate more time to this case he
realizes to have been attracted towards her. As years pass by, Gilbert is unable to find out the route
cause of trouble and unable to progress in treating her apart from making those characters friendly
with him. He find out that Toni is the dominant one and is very aggressive, who loves to dance and
sing, while Alette is calm and loves art and paintings. The twist comes in the story when Dr. Patterson
comes to visit Ashley with her Fiance' and her daughter, and starts playing with her daughter. That's
when she realizes how her father sexually assaulted and abused her every night, that's when Ashley
faints and is rushed to the emergency, and Toni comes into anger. During this anger period Dr Gilbert
gets the whole story out from her why she committed crimes . Toni confessed that she committed
these murders just cause they tried getting into her and poor Ashley and Alette couldn't do any thing,
she also felt that all men were the same wanting to bed a woman. Now that the week point was
known, Dr Gilbert decides to use it to make Toni fed up of her dad and soon show her its pointless
doing anything with him and end up uniting all three characters within Ashley and soon puts and end
to the other two characters Alette and Toni. Soon Ashley is relieved from the asylum and moves among
normal people and has a normal life and normal colorful dreams.
MY REVIEW
Its a faced paced, gripping and an un-put-downable book from Sidney Sheldon. The plot is very
engaging and has everything to keep the reader going. If you are a Sidney Sheldon fan or a mystery
novel lover you would really have a great time reading this. I personally had goosebumps and strong
adrenaline as the story neared the climax. Its surely gonna be an unforgettable book down my reading
history.
Another plot description
Ashley Patterson was sure some one was following her, she had read about stalkers but they belonged
in a different faraway world. Every night she had terrible nightmares. A series of horrible murders
throw a wave of panic across the country and all the victims are male seemingly butchered in the
same way, leaving them mutilated and castrated. The police makes an arrest leading to one of the
most bizarre murder trial ever witnessed, Ashley's fingerprints are allover the murder scenes and
traces of her virginal fluid, the case looks to be a clear cut one but Ashley denies of having committed
the crimes and barely even knows the victims. Is really Ashley a murderer?
A young woman went through alot growing up, murders begin happening to people around here, her DNA is
found at all murders, she is arrested and then found to have MPD. Doctors search to find what caused the
MPD. The book is based on a disputed subject of psychology, i.e. MPD - Multiple Personality Disorder.

Speaks about the story of a girl with a terrifying childhood which resulted into MPD. Well paced &
suspensefull story.