What do You think about Bloody River Blues (2000)?
A WEAK ATTEMPT IN THE PAST OF AN EXCELLENT WRITERohn Pellam, while scouting locations in Missouri for a movie, due to a casual incident, is taken as the key witness of a street murder that leaves two people dead and a cop paralyzed, from then on he is wanted by the Feds and the boss of the gang of thugs who committed that crime.Although I liked the other episodes of the location scout series, I was not pleased with this one, I have experienced a slow cold boring novel with a poor plot and shallow characters with the exception of Donnie Buffet, the crippled cop. Suspense was not well recreated when it has to be done and I could count just only one interesting twist that turns the whole story the other way, now Pellam goes after the perpetrators of the crime (the Feds, the thugs) , trying to find who was behind that act and why.This novel was written around or before 1993, it is clear that at that time Mr. Deaver was polishing his writing skills in order to become the excellent writer that he is today. So I conclude that William Jefferies and Jeffery Deaver are both the same "individual" but two different "writers"If you are looking for a good location scout mystery series novel, better try another attempt like Shallow Graves, is in my opinion the best of the trilogy (Shallow Graves - Bloody River Blues - Hell's Kitchen)
—Manugw
John Pellam is a location spotter for a movie company filming in a small down at the heels Missouri town. Going into town for some beer for a poker gathering in his Winnebago, he is walking back when the door of a parked car opens and knocks the bag of beer out of his hands and he confronts the door opener and looks into the car before gathering up his unbroken bottles and getting a bag from the store while a local cop stands by. A short time later there is a in the area in which the policeman is also shot, but not killed. The police now believe that John can identify the person in the car and confront him. He denies it, but the police don’t believe him. He is hounded by the police and the prosecutor and the FBI get into the act as well as the shooters and John finds himself beset with all sorts of troubles. This is Jeffery Deaver writing as William Jefferies but it is still a fast moving tale and a quick read.
—Bob
Abiutuato a leggere i libri di Rhyme, legegndo i libri di Pellam sembra mancare qualcosa.Capiamoci il libro non è assolutamente mente brutto o scritto male, e ci mancherebbe, ma gli manca quel qualcosa che in altri libri di Deaver non del ciclo di Rhyme (come ad esempio la bambola che dorme e profondo blu) non mancava, sembra mancare un certo mordente che stimoli la lettura, che mi faccia rimanere attaccato alle pagineForse il fatto è che trovo il personaggio di Pellam affascinante, ma non coinvolgenteOra mi resta il terzo libro, ma prima di leggerlo mi sa che passerà un attimo, visto che il coinvolgimento non è così alto ed anche perchè ho altre letture a cui dedicarmi
—Matteo Pellegrini
