The story is different; the Perp's MO unique - using Electricity as a Weapon. It is a fun book to read.My one major issue with this book is that The Major Characters - Rhymes, Saks, others are just acting different. It seems almost like Deaver pulled a Patterson (have others write the books). The...
Every time I drive by a roadside cross or memorial I wonder how that person had died. It's the first book I have read that is dedicated to roadside crosses and it brought awareness to all the accidents that happen on the road. This book also raises the issue of cyber bullying and how people feel ...
I had already read this writer: A Maiden's Grave and The Devil's Teardrop.Maybe because I was eleven (now I'm twenty-four), but I loved them.So, I was hoping that this XO was a dive into the past. But I was wrong. The book is really slow and easy predictable. The characters are sketchy and stereo...
Immenso rammarico. L'inizio del romanzo era avvincente, peccato, però, che poi si sia evoluto in modo a dir poco improbabile. Colpi di scena frequenti, troppo frequenti, e uno più irrealistico dell'altro, che mi hanno lasciato incredula e fatto continuamente sbuffare. Le ultime centocinquanta pag...
I really liked this book. I've read some of the other reviews and this book isn't for everybody.I got this on CD and I had to go back to the beginning a few times before I grasped the concept that this book was backwards-meaning it starts at the end and it works it's way forward.Even after finish...
I thought it was one of Jeffery Deaver's better books, the plot was interesting and out of the ordinary, using electricity for a weapon. At the same time some parts were completely predictable, like some of his other books. Lincoln Ryhme ALMOST gets killed and is seconds away before coincidently ...
Awe, I do so love a Lincoln Rhyme novel. Isn't it weird how you can absolutely love when an author writes about a specific character, but not when they write about someone else? I feel that way a lot. Anyhoo. This one was decent. I didn't find the electricity thing as interesting as I suspect I w...
Thanks to my colleague Mary G for letting me borrow this paperback.This is the first Jeffrey Deaver book I have read, and I'm now addicted to his storytelling.For me, a good work of fiction is all about the characters, and I love the Kathryn Dance character. All the characters really.Deaver's sto...
Rhyme and Sachs investigate a killer that seems smart. And sadistic.The first victim was knocked out, then a car backed onto her abdomen. her death was long and agonizing. The evidence was tough because a dumpster had been turned over and all the trash bags ripped open, th contents scattered all ...
I've been a fan of Jeffery Deaver for many years and even had the oppportunity with a friend to meet him and get a couple of books signed when he visited a town close to me (to promote The Sleeping Doll) a few years back. I like his books. Some of his books have been outstanding. (in particul...
The idea to have various, excellent writers each pen a chapter seemed like it would produce either a masterpiece or a disaster. It did the latter. I found the book so hopelessly confusing that I put it book before making it through five chapters of the first novela. It was so complicated that the...
According the number of feathers I found in my yard Sunday, a neighborhood cat stalked, caught and killed what appeared to be a seagull. Its feathers looked like a gull and I’m close to Matanzas Bay and although not an expert on birds, I can surely identify a gull’s feathers. As I was inspectin...
Well before Jeffery Deaver gained a considerable following with his lengthy Lincoln Rhyme series, popularized by the movie based on the first in that set, “The Bone Collector” (with Denzel Washington as Rhyme), he authored two shorter series of books: “Rune” and “John Pellam {Location Scout}. H...
حسناً..مازلت فى بدايتها،ولكنى كالعادة لا استطيع الصمت حتى الإنتهاء..بما أننى أعيد قراءة"الأحوة كارامازوف"،ولكن هذه المرة باللغة العربية.فقد أحببت أن أقرأ معها شئ خفيف.فقط أنا سعيدة حقاً لأنى أعيد قراءة هذه التحفة..أقرأها فى المساء ثم قبل النوم أقرأ قليلاً فى كتاب يطرح مبادئ علم الفلك الذى أعشق...
I remember the first time I borrowed a Jeffery Deaver book from the library and it's stuck with me for years because that book was The Bone Collector. I then sought out every other book in the Lincoln Rhyme series and hit a bit of a stumbling block. That stumbling block being The Twelfth Card. I ...
I have to say this one cannot stand in the same grade with the first two, or three of Lincoln's series. I mean when reading those ones, I couldn't help stopping because I was so eager to know what happened next; but as for the Stone Monkey, I put my iPad down several times to do other things with...
If you haven't read The Coffin Dancer, and you want the plot to surprise you, do not read my review after this first paragraph -- do not read anyone's review. I don't know whether I'm quicker or slower on the uptake than the average reader of Deaver's work, but a cursory glance at reviews here wa...
In Tanner’s Corner, NC, Garrett Hanlon, 16 years old, orphaned and essentially feral, has allegedly killed Billy Stail with a shovel and has allegedly kidnapped Mary Beth McConnell. He has allegedly put a county deputy into a life-threatening coma using the stings of hundreds of yellow jackets. A...
The Devil’s Teardrop by Jeffery Deaver, is a standalone novel, featuring Special Agent Margaret Lukas and document examiner Parker Kincaid. The story is set in a time frame of less than 12 hours on the last day of the previous millennium i.e. 31.12.1999.The novel starts with a lone gunman, callin...
This was my first read of a novel by this author and I really enjoyed it. Although I learned after finishing the title that this novel is #5 in the Lincoln Rhyme series, it can definitely be read as a stand-alone. One is instantly immersed in the world of illusion and magic with a wealth of hi...
This book is an intense murder mystery/thriller that keeps you guessing on every page. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs, partners in crime, face an eerie case involving a killer who goes by the name of the Watchmaker. With unclear motives and horrific torture methods to killing people, as well as a...
Deaver's third (and apparently final) entry in leading "lady" "Rune" series...We modestly enjoyed Deaver's two earlier entries in this set ("Manhattan Is My Beat" and "Death Of A Blue Movie Star") about a very quirky 20's-something female (now) camerawoman named Rune. Rune definitely has a diffe...
Jeffery Deaver always makes sure to create multiple layers of suspense and does it very well. The weather alone in 'Praying for Sleep' is a very effective layer. A clear, bright unseasonably warm November evening is threatening to turn into the storm of the century and you see, feel, and smell it...
The Sleeping Doll was my first Jeffery Deaver read, and I was not disappointed. I'm on a mission now to read all of Deaver's work. This book has so many twists and turns, several, "OH MY GOSH!" moments. I really enjoyed being surprised and shocked by many events which took place, but I also appre...
Jeffery Deaver- Death of a Blue Movie Star (Bantam Books 2000) 3.25 StarsRune almost gets blown up as a bomb destroys a porn theatre that she was walking by. Now she wants to make a film about it through the eyes of porn star Shelly Lowe. When a second bomb kills her star it leaves her questionin...
John Pellam is a location scout working on the set of a " Bonnie and Clyde " style movie in Maddocks, Missouri. When a random guy opens his car door and sends his beer crashing to the ground he becomes a wanted man in the connection with a murder and the shooting of a cop.He becomes Missouri's mo...
Continua la mia crociata contro gli stravolgimenti dei titoli. Stavolta "Hell's Kitchen - A location scout mystery" è diventato "L'ultimo copione di John Pellam", titolo che hanno probabilmente ritenuto giustificato dal fatto che si tratta dell'ultimo (appunto) romanzo di Deaver con protagonista ...
I will read and rate each story on its own merit and then come back at the end and rate and review the book as a whole.I love short stories, and particularly dark ones with demented twists. If you are a fan of what I call Hitchcock endings where the ending is many times not given and you need to ...
Setelah beberapa historical romance genre, aku memutuskan untuk membeli buku ini. Mudah2an bagus. Buku J.Deaver sebelumnya yg sempat aku baca setengah adalah Speaking In Tongues, mudah2an yg ini lebih menarik karena ada embel2nya 'Bestseller #1 International'.Baru baca bab 1 dan 2, sejauh ini bar...
Deaver's skill at weaving a crafty and intriguing suspense story is sound. He has the bare bones of the work down to a science, and when it comes to most of his tales, the bones themselves are strong, hearty, and glistening white.In this case, however, those bones have virtually no muscle.This ta...
His code name is Phate -- a sadistic computer hacker who infiltrates people's computers, invades their lives, and with chilling precision lures them to their deaths. To stop him, the authorities free imprisoned former hacker Wyatt Gillette to aid the investigation. Teamed with old-school homicide...
První díl trilogie začíná v New Yorku, kde dvacetiletá Rune svou výpravou za dobrodružstvím rozpoutá peklo, které ani ona sama není schopna jen tak lehce zastavit. Rune je takové malé velké dítě. Žije v pohádkách, život je prostě takový jaký je a ona sama se o nic víc nestará. Žije nezávislým živ...
The New York Times proclaimed Jeffery Deaver's The Bone Collector as "dazzling". Now he combines spine-chilling forensic detail with gripping suspense to keep his trademark plot twists and brilliant hero moving at breathtaking speed. Detective Rhyme, the foremost criminalist in the NYPD, joins hi...
Well before Deaver became hugely popular with his now reknown Lincoln Rhyme series, he published two rather obscure three-book series (featuring an odd, inquisitive woman named Rune; and a movie company location scout named John Pellam) as well as a few standalone thrillers, some published under ...
Rhyme, the hero of Jeffery Deaver’s series that began with The Bone Collector (1997), is a quadriplegic and, of necessity, sticks close to home in New York City. Davenport, the star of John Sandford’s Prey series, is an ace investigator living in Minnesota—working presently for that state’s Burea...
TJ Scanlon glanced at the solid detective, who was sitting down across from her desk. ‘I never quite got that. Does it mean, “We’re in a desert area, so it doesn’t rain but sometimes there’s a downpour and we get flooded because, you know, there’s no ground cover?”’ ‘I don’t know. All I mean is, ...
It took nearly seven more hours to finish just categorizing the evidence. At 3:15 in the morning they decided to knock off for the night. Sachs stayed with Rhyme, as she did three or four nights a week, and Cooper slept in the guest room. Sellitto returned to his house, where his partner, Rachel,...
They kept motioning him along the sidewalk, away from the curious eyes of the cast and crew and the crowd of locals, who stared with fascination at the equipment and occasionally waved—some timidly, some like relatives—at the cast. One middle-aged man pointed at Pellam and whispered something to ...
He and Paul Schumann, beside him, gazed at the stadium to the left. Two massive rectangular columns stood at the front, the five Olympic rings floating between them.As they turned left onto Olympic Street, Paul again noted the massive size of the complex. According to the directional signs, in ad...
Amelia Sachs said. “Nope,” Lon Sellitto replied, “she’s an interpreter.” “Translating wasn’t a cover for being a call girl? You’re sure?” “Positive. She’s legit. Been a commercial interpreter for ten years, works for big comp...
There is some debate as to what was the cause of Nancy Lincoln’s death – possibly tuberculosis or cancer but the general consensus is that she was a victim of milk sickness, which claimed thousands of lives in the nineteenth century. Although the actual cause can’t be pinpointed, one fact about N...
The widower father of two children, a nice house in the burbs and a sweetheart down in the Tarheel State he was getting pretty close to proposing to… All those domestic things tended to add up on the negative side when you were asked to be a sitting duck on an undercover set. Still, Bell couldn’t...
I observed him closely for the first time. The head beneath that sandy hair was long, a predator’s skull. His features were pinched—they’d circled in on themselves—and a scar curved forward from his chin, short and narrow, from a knife, not shrapnel. He didn’t smile or offer much expression and I...
On the other a drop of a hundred feet. And in front, a Ford pickup, one of those fancy models, a pleasant navy-blue shade. It cruised down the steep grade, moving slow. The driver and passenger enjoying the Colorado scenery. Those were his choices: Rock. Air. Pickup. Which really wasn’t much of a...
It drooped in his hand as he reflected on the conversation he’d just had—a conversation conducted in the language known as Political and Corporate Euphemism. He lingered in the halls of the CBI, considering options. Finally he returned to Charles Overby’s office. The agent-in-charge was sitting b...
J. PARRISHKaminski stood at the window staring down at the inner harbor. A fog had rolled in and the lights of the buildings blinked back at her like eyes in the dark.Her head was pounding—from bone-deep fatigue and the lingering effects of Faust’s Champagne. But also from fear.She had never real...
But Carmella, the gorgeous young woman he met at a nearby bar, was a little too eager, which set off warning bells that she probably had designs to land a good-looking and apparently employed American husband. In any event, tequila had intervened big time and the dance of your-place-or-mine never...