The latest novel written by Sidney Sheldon, “Tell Me Your Dreams”, is about
three stunning young women. Their names are Ashley Patterson, Toni Prescott, and
Alette Peters. They all live in Cupertino, California and work at Global
Computer Graphics, a successful, fast-growing young company with two hundred
employees in Silicon Valley. Ashley Patterson is a confused woman, but is smart
and beautiful. She’s lonely, timid, and certainly convinced she’s being
stalked. Toni Prescott is an insolent, British flirt with a passion for Internet
dating and cabarets. Alette Petters is a wannabe artist who chooses quiet,
dreamy weekends with handsome painters. Ashley reminds herself of her high
school boyfriend, Jim Cleary. He was the most popular boy in Bedford Area High
School. He was on the football team, was handsome and amusing and had a killer
smile. He had promised her that they would run away together to Chicago, but
Ashley was left at the station watching the train to Chicago leave. Toni had met
Jean Claude Parent in an on-line chat room. Jean told her all about Quebec City.
Toni was interested and would like to go to Quebec one day. Toni and Jean talked
on-line every chance they get. Alette also met a guy, Richard Melton, in the
Museum of Modern Art, in San Francisco. They talked about great artist and about
Alette growing up in Rome. Alette assured Richard that she’d see him again
soon. Ashley receives an invitation to her Ten-Year Class Reunion. She decides
to go and reunite with all her classmates except the person she wanted to see,
Jim. A close friend of hers, Florence Schiffer, tells her the horrible news of
Jim. The day after the graduation party, Jim’s parents came back and found his
body stabbed to death and castrated. She believes her father had killed Jim for
her father told Jim to stay away from Ashley. Dennis Tibble was Global Computer
Graphics’ computer genius. He was known around the plant as "The
Fixer." He was in his early thirties, thin and bald with an unpleasant,
arrogant attitude. The plant knew he was fixated on Ashley. Ashley didn’t like
him much but she had agreed that she’d go over to his place to discuss about
the advice he needed from her. The last thing she’d remember was taking a sip
of wine Dennis had given her and she woke up in the Chicago Loop Hotel three
days later from the day she went to Dennis’ apartment. She thinks that Dennis
raped by slipping a date-rape drug in her drink. When she returns back to
Cupertino, Dennis is discovered stabbed to death and castrated. Deputy Sam Blake
is the detective for Dennis’ murder case. He questions Ashley about Dennis,
but she just tells him that she went to his apartment weeks ago for business
only. Toni is excited that the company is going to Quebec City for a big
computer convention during winter break. She would be able to meet Jean in
person. She spends her days in Quebec City with Jean as her tour guide. One day
he lets her have a ring in his store and later that night he asked her to go to
his place but she had said tomorrow. The next day, early morning, a police
officer was driving by Jean’s house. He noticed that the door had been left
open. He went inside and found Jean’s body stabbed and castrated. They knew he
was last seen with Toni. But there was no trace of her and there was no
information they could find about her except her name, description, and
fingerprints. Alette went to meet Richard at the De Young Museum. They had lunch
and explored the museum. Richard offered her to come to his apartment and see
his painting. But Alette said not yet and she’ll see him next weekend.
Richard’s roommate found stabbed and castrated. The detectives of San
Francisco called the detectives of Cupertino explaining that they have the same
murder as they do stab wounds and castrations. Deputy Blake had Ashley take a
polygraph test. He asked her questions about herself and if she knew the murder
victims. The only victims she didn’t know were Richard and Jean. She also
stated she didn’t kill Dennis. When Ashley got home that evening, she saw in
bright red lipstick, YOU WILL DIE, in her bathroom mirror. She immediately
called Deputy Blake and asked him to stay because she didn’t want to be alone.
Deputy Blake stayed in the couch and Ashley went to bed in her room. Ashley woke
up to a scream. A woman found Deputy Blake’s body stabbed and castrated
outside in the alley. The authorities found that for the murders in Bedford,
Cupertino, Quebec City and San Francisco the same DNA was found in each crime
scenes. It was Ashley’s DNA so the took her in custody. Her trial was held in
California since 3 of the murders occurred there. A psychiatrist discovered that
Ashley has MPD, Multiple Personality Disorder, and her other personalities are
Toni and Alette. At the end of the trial, the jury found Ashley guilty of the
murders of Dennis Tibble, Deputy Samuel Blake, and Richard Melton. But luckily,
Ashley’s defendant lawyer, David recorded Ashley in hypnotist. During
hypnotist, her other personalities took control of her. But then Toni discovered
he’d been taping and attacked him with a letter opener and stabbing him in the
hand. David showed what he recorded to the judge and the judge decided that
Ashley is not guilty by reason of insanity. Ashley will be treated in a mental
health facility. Dr. Gilbert Keller was in charge of Ashley’s therapy. It took
years until he discovered what had happen to Ashley. On the day Ashley’s
father came to visit with his fiancée and her six-year old daughter, Ashley’s
father was tossing the young girl up in the air and catching her. Just watching
her father tossing the girl reminded her of him tossing her as a girl. She went
hysterical, but when she was done she remembered what her dad did to her. He had
molested her when she was young. The first time was in London when she was six,
then Toni was created to protect her. He would go to her bed every night. When
they went back home to Bedford, she’d tell her mom but her mom didn’t
believe her. When Ashley and her dad went to Rome, he molested her again but
this time he forced himself inside her while she was asleep, then Alette was
created to protect her, too. Toni had admitted to committing all the murders.
Jim, Dennis, Jean, Richard, and Deputy Sam had each intended to have sex with
Ashley. Ashley did go to Jim’s house. Dennis led Ashley to his bedroom. Toni
did go to Jean’s house. Alette did go to Richard’s apartment. Deputy Sam was
in Ashley’s apartment, but as protection, until he heard noises in her room,
it was her moaning and he saw her naked and went in her bed. Toni, thinking it
was their father, grabs the closest sharp object, a knife or a broken bottle
glass, and stabs each guy and castrated, so they would never do that again. Dr.
Keller unites the three of them so that Ashley would know who also controls her.
Months later, after a struggle of Toni’s urge in killing their father had
faded, Dr. Keller united them as one personality, Ashley Patterson. Ashley was
discharged would return home to Cupertino, where regular therapy and evaluation
sessions had been arranged with a court-approved psychiatrist. Ashley had never
been so happy, now she has a wonderful life ahead of her. “Tell Me Your
Dreams” is the first book I’ve read written by Sidney Sheldon. I am, or
should I say was the type of person that didn’t like to read books as thick as
this book is. My cousin suggested that I read this book. He promised me I
wouldn’t be able to put the book down. I didn’t think he would be right, I
couldn’t put the book down. I read the book as I ate dinner and breakfast. I
even stayed reading the book up till midnight not realizing what time it was. I
spent at least three days reading this book. Usually it takes me three weeks to
read a book this thick. This book is very interesting. It keeps you wondering
what’s going to happen. There is so much detail you can be able to visualize
every scene. I was very confused with the murders. At first I thought it was her
father, but then people Dr. Patterson didn’t know were being murdered to so it
couldn’t be him. I didn’t know who the killer was until Toni admitted to the
murders. I had never heard of multiple personality disorder (MPD), also know as
dissociative identity disorder (DID), until now. I have learned so much in this
book about that I never knew. For instance, I learned about MPD, how the public
thinks it is all an act, how a person with MPD wouldn’t even know her alter
personalities, and how fingerprints and DNA are so efficient. This book can be
described as excellent, but not for the pessimist. The book gives a perfect
description of what it tries to do. It is very entertaining and full of
suspense. It would be a perfect bed companion, but I doubt that someone would be
able to sleep after reading it. The Twist and turns intrigued me. But the main
reason I liked this book is that it told me something about life, but also how
to deal with it. The best part I like in the book was in the end when she got to
have a better feel on life. You can tell by her words, “This makes up for a
lot of the ones that didn’t succeed doesn’t I, Gilbert?” that before
leaving the psychiatric hospital she was filled with accomplishment and joy that
she made it through everything. I also was happy she got to have a happy ending.