Jeffery Deaver

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Title: Speaking In Tongues: Description:
Two men of words... One seeking only peace. The other, violence

Title: Mistress Of Justice: Description:
Taylor Lockwood spends her days working as a paralegal in one of New York's pre-eminent Wall Street law firms and her nights playing jazz piano anywhere she can. But the rhythm of her life is disrupted when attorney Mitchell Reece requests her help in locating a stolen document that could cost him not only the multimillion dollar case he's defending but his career as well.

Title: Hell's Kitchen: Description:
Perennial bestselling author Jeffrey Deaver's alter ego, William Jefferies, knows a thing or two about Hollywood. So does John Pellam, the hero of his previous Shallow Graves and Bloody River Blues and the latest in the series, Hell's Kitchen. Pellam made a name for himself as a director before a stint in San Quentin took him off the fast track. Since his release he's been earning his keep as a location scout and not so incidentally shooting a documentary about New York's Hell's Kitchen, which he hopes will propel him back into the career that skidded south after he ran afoul of the law. Pellam has found the star of his new film, one Ettie Washington, who has lived in the neighborhood for decades and is the perfect voice to tell the story of an area that's losing its old-time seediness to urban gentrification. But then Ettie's tenement goes up in a blaze that kills a small boy and puts her right in the public eye--as a suspect. It's only the beginning of a series of fires, each one more deadly. The cops know Ettie couldn't have set the others, since she's been in jail, but they're convinced she knows who did. Pellam has his own reasons for getting Ettie off the hook and embarking on a search for the real pyromaniac. Jeffries saves the best one for the very end of this taut, well-paced, and highly atmospheric thriller. --Jane Adams

Title: The Coffin Dancer: Description:
The most dangerous and elusive hitman in the world is visiting New York City...... on business

Title: The Stone Monkey: Description:
Only one thing is more terrifying than seeing the Ghost.... Surviving.

Title: Praying For Sleep: Description:
Michael Hrubek, a young schizophrenic, has escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane. And he's making his way towards Lis Atcheson, the teacher who testified at his murder trial.

Title: The Devil's Teardrop: Description:
Amazon.co.uk Review Thriller readers can always count on getting extra value from Jeffery Deaver--strong plots, fascinating research, believable characters and plenty of surprise endings. As in The Terminator, the bad guys in The Devil's Teardrop just won't quit and they create enough havoc in the last 50 pages to fill a whole new book. Although Deaver's brilliant, wheelchair-bound forensic expert Lincoln Rhyme makes a guest appearance, the muscular scientist in charge here is Parker Kincaid--an expert in document analysis who'd much rather be checking the authenticity of letters from Thomas Jefferson than figuring out when a crazed shooter known as the Digger will strike again. But it's New Year's Eve, 1999, and the Digger has begun a reign of terror--promising to shoot into crowds in Washington DC every four hours until he's paid US$20million. As Kincaid searches an odd ransom note for clues (and tries to maintain a low profile so that his vindictive ex-wife won't get custody of his young kids), we get to know the Digger better. He is a frighteningly invisible character with serious brain damage, who methodically obeys a set of instructions from an unknown handler. We also learn many amazing facts about paper, ink, and handwriting analysis, and watch as a relationship slowly and reluctantly develops between Kincaid and the FBI agent in charge. All this as the devious Deaver leads us down several garden paths overflowing with dead bodies. --Dick Adler, Amazon.com

Title: A Maiden's Grave: Description:
The countdown begins at noon...

Title: Death Of A Blue Movie Star: Description:
Rune, the quirky, irrepressible heroine of Manhatten is my Beat, is struggling to become a filmmaker in New York, shooting a documentary about a series of shocking bomb attacks on the adult film industry, seemingly perpetrated by religious terrorists.

Title: The Vanished Man (a Lincoln Rhyme Novel): Description:
Lincoln Rhyme, the world's greatest forensic criminologist. His partner and lover, Amelia Sachs. And an unstoppable killer with one final horrific trick up his sleeve.

Title: The Empty Chair: Description:
A cat and mouse game through the abandoned swamps of North Carolina...

Title: The Blue Nowhere: Description:
This is the first JD book i read and it was fantastic, so i went on to read the devils tear drop and that was brilliant too - highly recommended author - i think his more recent books have been a let down but this one by far is brilliant. In this 21st century version of the "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" two computer wizards engage in the kind of high-tech combat that only a hacker could love. Wyatt Gillette, a cybergenius who's never used his phenomenal talent for evil, is sitting in a California jail doing time for a few harmless computer capers when he gets a temporary reprieve--a chance to help the Computer Crimes Unit of the state police nail a cracker (a criminally inclined hacker) called Phate who's using his ingenious program, Trapdoor, to lure innocent victims to their death by infiltrating their computers. Gillette and Phate were once the kings of cyberspace--the Blue Nowhere of the title--but Phate has gone way past the mischievous electronic pranks they once pulled and crossed over to the dark side. While Trapdoor can hack its way into any computer, it's Phate's skill at "social engineering" as well as his remarkable coding ability that makes him such a menace to society. As Wyatt explains to the policeman who springs him from prison so that he can find and stop Phate before he kills again, "It means conning somebody, pretending you're someone you're not. Hackers do it to get access to databases and phone lines and pass codes. The more facts about somebody you can feed back to them, the more they believe you and the more they'll do what you want them to."

Title: Garden Of Beasts: Description:
As is the case with many in the US legal profession, Jeffery Deaver decided to switch one moneymaking job for another--and thank God he did (who needs another lawyer?), when he can produce books like Garden of Beasts. His Lincoln Rhyme crime novels, with their doughty quadriplegic investigator, have been consistently excellent, with only a touch of tiredness creeping in recently. Rhyme was a highly unusual protagonist, and the convoluted serial killer narratives were refreshingly innovative in a desperately overcrowded field. In such winners as The Bone Collectorand The Stone Monkey, Rhyme and Amelia (his police colleague) had their work cut out. But it was apparent that Deaver might be sensing imminent burnout when he came up with two new heroes in The Blue Nowhere: cop Frank Bishop and computer hacker Wyatt Gillette. And it seems this change of pace didn’t slake Deaver’s desire for the new; here he is changing direction again with Garden of Beasts, a period-set thriller that is as utterly different from anything he’s written as might be imagined--but quite as adroitly written. The setting is New York in the Thirties, and the protagonist here is hitman Paul Schumann, who ends up in police custody after one of his hits misfires. Schumann is given two options: journey to Berlin to terminate Hitler’s associate Reinhard Ernst, or end up in jail for a very long time. Guess which option Schumann chooses? Correct! His danger-fraught journey through a vividly created Berlin, as the preparations for the Olympics transform the city, has the pulse-raising energy of the Rhyme books--particularly as a canny German cop is breathing down Schumann’s neck. With its scarifying picture of a burgeoning Third Reich, Garden of Beasts is Deaver on top form; perhaps Schumann might be more fully developed, but few Deaver fans will complain.--Barry Forshaw

Title: Speaking In Tongues: Description:
Two men of words...Once seeking only peace. The other, violence.

Title: Garden Of Beasts: Description:
As is the case with many in the US legal profession, Jeffery Deaver decided to switch one moneymaking job for another--and thank God he did (who needs another lawyer?), when he can produce books like Garden of Beasts. His Lincoln Rhyme crime novels, with their doughty quadriplegic investigator, have been consistently excellent, with only a touch of tiredness creeping in recently. Rhyme was a highly unusual protagonist, and the convoluted serial killer narratives were refreshingly innovative in a desperately overcrowded field. In such winners as The Bone Collectorand The Stone Monkey, Rhyme and Amelia (his police colleague) had their work cut out. But it was apparent that Deaver might be sensing imminent burnout when he came up with two new heroes in The Blue Nowhere: cop Frank Bishop and computer hacker Wyatt Gillette. And it seems this change of pace didn’t slake Deaver’s desire for the new; here he is changing direction again with Garden of Beasts, a period-set thriller that is as utterly different from anything he’s written as might be imagined--but quite as adroitly written. The setting is New York in the Thirties, and the protagonist here is hitman Paul Schumann, who ends up in police custody after one of his hits misfires. Schumann is given two options: journey to Berlin to terminate Hitler’s associate Reinhard Ernst, or end up in jail for a very long time. Guess which option Schumann chooses? Correct! His danger-fraught journey through a vividly created Berlin, as the preparations for the Olympics transform the city, has the pulse-raising energy of the Rhyme books--particularly as a canny German cop is breathing down Schumann’s neck. With its scarifying picture of a burgeoning Third Reich, Garden of Beasts is Deaver on top form; perhaps Schumann might be more fully developed, but few Deaver fans will complain.--Barry Forshaw

Title: Garden Of Beasts: Description:
As is the case with many in the US legal profession, Jeffery Deaver decided to switch one moneymaking job for another--and thank God he did (who needs another lawyer?), when he can produce books like Garden of Beasts. His Lincoln Rhyme crime novels, with their doughty quadriplegic investigator, have been consistently excellent, with only a touch of tiredness creeping in recently. Rhyme was a highly unusual protagonist, and the convoluted serial killer narratives were refreshingly innovative in a desperately overcrowded field. In such winners as The Bone Collectorand The Stone Monkey, Rhyme and Amelia (his police colleague) had their work cut out. But it was apparent that Deaver might be sensing imminent burnout when he came up with two new heroes in The Blue Nowhere: cop Frank Bishop and computer hacker Wyatt Gillette. And it seems this change of pace didn’t slake Deaver’s desire for the new; here he is changing direction again with Garden of Beasts, a period-set thriller that is as utterly different from anything he’s written as might be imagined--but quite as adroitly written. The setting is New York in the Thirties, and the protagonist here is hitman Paul Schumann, who ends up in police custody after one of his hits misfires. Schumann is given two options: journey to Berlin to terminate Hitler’s associate Reinhard Ernst, or end up in jail for a very long time. Guess which option Schumann chooses? Correct! His danger-fraught journey through a vividly created Berlin, as the preparations for the Olympics transform the city, has the pulse-raising energy of the Rhyme books--particularly as a canny German cop is breathing down Schumann’s neck. With its scarifying picture of a burgeoning Third Reich, Garden of Beasts is Deaver on top form; perhaps Schumann might be more fully developed, but few Deaver fans will complain.--Barry Forshaw

Title: The Bone Collector: Description:
New York City is thrown into chaos by the assaults of the Bone Collector, a serial kidnapper and killer who gives the police a chance to save his victims from death by leaving obscure clues. The cops go to Lincoln Rhyme, an ex-NYPD forensics expert left paralysed after an accident on the job. Rhyme reluctantly postpones his ambitions towards suicide and puts together a forensic investigation team, enlisting as his eyes and ears young police officer Amelia Sachs. Rhyme digs deep into the only world he has left - his astonishing mind - and slowly begins to narrow the noose around the Bone Collector. But the kidnapper is narrowing his own noose - around Lincoln Rhyme. About the Author Jeff Deaver was a lawyer before quitting work to become a full-time writer. He divides his time between Washington, DC and California.

Title: The Twelfth Card: Description:
Geneva Settle is a bright young high school student from Harlem writing a paper about one of her ancestors, a former slave called Charles Singleton. Geneva is also the target of a ruthless professional killer. Criminalist Lincoln Rhyme and his policewoman partner Amelia Sachs are called into the case, working frantically to anticipate where the hired gun will strike next and how to stop him, all the while trying to get to the truth of Charles Singleton, and the reason that Geneva has been targeted. For Charles Singleton had a secret -- a secret that may strike at the very heart of the United States constitution, and have disastrous consequences for human rights today. And Sachs is going to have to search a crime scene that's 140 years old before she can stop the killer. From the Publisher Read by Kerry Shale. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition. About the Author Jeffery Deaver was a lawyer before quitting work to become a full-time writer. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Title: Shallow Graves (a Location Scout Series): Description:
John Pellam had been in the trenches of filmmaking, with a promising Hollywood career - until tragedy sidetracked him. Now he's a location scout, travelling the country in search of shooting sites for films. But in a small town in upstate New York, Pellam's illusionary world is shattered by a savage murder, and he is suddenly centre stage in an unfolding drama of violence, lust and conspiracy in this less-than-picture-perfect locale. About the Author Jeff Deaver was a lawyer before quitting work to become a full-time writer. He divides his time between Washington, DC and California.

Title: Bloody River Blues (location Scout): Description:
Hollywood location scout John Pellam thought the scenic backwater town of Maddox, Missouri, would be the perfect site for an upcoming gangster film. Until real bullets leave two people dead and one cop paralysed. Pellam had unwittingly wandered onto the crime scene just moments before the brutal hits. Now the feds and local police want him to talk. Mob enforcers want him silenced. And a mysterious blonde just wants him. Trapped in a town full of sinister secrets and deadly deceptions, Pellam fears that deal will imitate art, as the film shoot - and his life - race toward a breathtakingly bloody climax. About the Author Jeff Deaver was a lawyer before quitting work to become a full-time writer. He divides his time between Washington, DC and California.

Title: The Cold Moon: Description:
It's the night of the full Cold Moon - the month of December according to the lunar calendar. A young man is found dead in lower Manhattan, the first in a series of victims of a ruthless killer calling himself the Watchmaker. His obsession with time drives the Watchmaker to plan the murders with the precision of fine timepieces, and the victims die prolonged deaths while an eerie clock ticks away their last minutes on earth. Amelia is not only Lincoln's eyes and ears at crime scenes on the Watchmaker case, but she's now running her own homicide investigation - her first case as lead detective. The policewoman's unwavering efforts in pursuing the killers of a businessman, who left behind a wife and son, sets into motion clockwork gears of its own, with consequences reaching to people and events that will endanger not only many lives but Lincoln's and Amelia's future together. From the Publisher Lincoln Rhyme returns for another slice of Deaver's trademark fast-paced, tightly plotted suspense. There's a growing number of Jeff Deaver fans out there, and rightly so - so have a listen and find out what all the fuss is about . . . --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Title: Hard News (rune Trilogy): Description:
Rune seems to have finally made the first real step towards her dreams - she has secured a job working for a major network news department. From there, he career as a budding documentary maker can really take off. However, nothing in Rune's life is ever that simple. She quickly becomes fascinated by the brutal murder of the network boss, and just as swiftly comes to the conclusion that the guy in the frame for the crime must be innocent. This, despite the mountain of evidence against him. But, trying to prove his innocence starts to become hazardous to her own health when a hitman comes to town with her name on a contract...Fulls of twists and turns, and with a incredibly engaging central character, this is classic Deaver! About the Author Jeff Deaver was a lawyer before quitting work to become a full-time writer. He divides his time between Washington, DC and California.

Title: Twelfth Card, The: Description:
Schoolgirl Geneva Settle's research project into her slave ancestor Charles Singleton unearths more than just an interesting story. Suddenly Geneva seems to be the target of a professional assasin. A man who will ruthlessly kill anyone in his way unless top criminalist Lincoln Rhyme can piecve together the deadly puzzle. Trapped inside a paralysed body, Rhyme's brilliant mind is cahnnelled through his partner, Amelia Sachs, as they work frantically to anticipate where the hitman will strike next, and how to stop him. And Rhyme and Sachs soon realise the only way to stop him is to discover the secret of Charles Singleton.

Title: The Vanished Man: Description:
A killer flees the scene of a homicide at a prestigious Manhattan music school and locks himself in a classroom. Within minutes, the police have him surrounded. Then a scream rings out, followed by a gunshot. The police break down the door. The room is empty. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to help with the high-profile investigation. For the ambitious Sachs, solving the case could earn her a promotion. For the quadriplegic Rhyme, it means relying on his protegee to ferret out a master illusionist they've dubbed 'the conjurer', who balts them with gruesome murders that become more diabolical with each fresh crime. As the fatalities rise and the minutes tick down, Rhyme and Sachs must move beyond the smoke and mirrors to prevent a terrifying act of vengeance that could become the greatest vanishing act of all. About the Author Jeff Deaver was a lawyer before quitting work to become a full-time writer. He divides his time between Washington, DC and California.

Title: Manhattan Is My Beat (rune Trilogy): Description:
Back in 1988, a young author emerged onto the crime scene with a fresh and inspiring New York crime series starring a young aspiring film-maker - Rune. The series quickly established their author as one to watch. In this opener, Rune becomes the obsessed with the murder of one of the customers at her video store. Mr Kelly had been renting the classic noir movie - MANHATTAN IS MY BEAT - over and over again and she swiftly becomes convinced that the secret to his brutal death is hidden in its black-and-white frames. But what she doesn't realise is that her interest is going to bring her far close to the killer than she ever could have wanted. About the Author Jeff Deaver was a lawyer before quitting work to become a full-time writer. He divides his time between Washington, DC and California.

Title: More Twisted: Description:
Jeffery Deaver loves writing short stories. 'All bets are off,' he says. 'Short stories are like a sniper's bullet. Fast and shocking. I can make good bad and bad badder, and most fun of all, really bad seem good.' This is collection of short stories that is instantly gripping and impossible to put down. About the Author Jeffery Deaver was a lawyer before quitting work to become a full-time writer.

Title: The Sleeping Doll: Description:
Daniel Pell is a contemporary Charles Manson. A petty criminal with a history of antisocial behavior and obsession with controlling other people, he had a group of women living with him in a quasi cult in central California. Eight years ago, he and another man viciously slaughtered a family for no apparent reason, though the three women in his 'Family' were absolved of any part in the deaths. Now, present day, Pell has escaped and Kathryn Dance, the famed interrogator and kinesic analyst (body language) and her team, must find out where he is and why he's staying near the prison he escaped from. She brings together the three women, now leading normal lives, to help her find out where Pell is and what he's up to. Pell, for his part, and a young woman he has manipulated to help him, tries to outguess the police and fulfill his mission, as he learns that Kathryn Dance is perhaps his most dangerous opponent. This is a typical cat and mouse Deaver novel, in which conflicts abound--finding the killer, as well as reconciling the emotions within Pell's three 'Family' members, which have simmered over the years.The 'Sleeping Doll' refers to the one surviving daughter of the original murder eight years ago--a nickname because she was asleep with her toys and not seen by the killer.Dance has to find her and see what she call her about the night of the killings. Nothing is quite what it seems to be ...

Title: Twisted: Collected Stories Of Jeffery Deaver: Description:
'I can make good bad and bad badder, and most fun of all, really bad seem good.' - Jeffery Deaver. And, that is exactly what he does in this superb collection. In "Beautiful", former supermodel Kari's stalker has followed her through retirement to her new small town home. The police can do nothing. The only thing that will end the nightmare is the stalker's death or her own. In the Edgar-nominated "Triangle", Pete finds a true crime book - and uses the lessons contained therein to kill Mo's lover. The award-winning "Without Jonathan" introduces us to Marissa, about to go on the first date of her life since she married Jonathan, with a man she met through the personals. As she wonders whether she will ever truly fall in love again, the man she is about to meet is killing a housewife in another part of town! And in the brand-new "The Christmas Present", we see a side of Lincoln Rhyme we've never met before. From the Inside Flap Jeffery Deaver loves writing short stories. ‘All bets are off,’ he says. ‘Short stories are like a sniper’s bullet. Fast and shocking. I can make good bad and bad badder, and most fun of all, really bad seem good.’ And that is exactly what he does in these sixteen superb short stories. In ‘Beautiful’ former supermodel Kari’s stalker has followed her through retirement to her new small town home. The police can do nothing. The only thing that will end the nightmare is the stalker’s death or her own. In the Edgar-nominated ‘Triangle’ Pete finds a true crime book – and uses the lessons contained therein to kill Mo's lover. The award-winning ‘Without Jonathan’ introduces us to Marissa, about to go on the first date of her life since she married Jonathan, with a man she met over the Internet. As she wonders whether she will ever truly fall in love again, the man she is going to meet is killing a housewife in another part of town . . . And in the brand-new ‘The Christmas Present’, we see a side of Lincoln Rhyme we've never met before. This collection of short stories is instantly gripping and impossible to put down, taking your breath away time and time again. Nothing is as it seems in the twisted world of Jeffery Deaver. About the Author Jeff Deaver was a lawyer before quitting work to become a full-time writer. He divides his time between Washington, DC and California.

Title: The Sleeping Doll: Description:
California Bureau of Investigation Special agent Kathryn Dance is an expert in kinesics: the science of interpreting behaviour. It makes her a brilliant interrogator. But she's up against Daniel Pell, a master of control who mesmerises, seduces and exploits people for his own murderous ends. A convicted killer who is known as The Son of Manson for the chilling parallels between him and the notorious ritual murderer.To track down Pell before he destroys yet more lives, Kathyn Dance must enlist the help of four people from the killer's past. The three women who lived under his sadistic sway in the cult he once headed. And the young girl known as the Sleeping Doll, the only survivor of her family's slaughter at Pell's hands ... About the Author Jeffery Deaver was a lawyer before quitting work to become a full-time writer.

Title: The Lesson Of Her Death: Description:
When Detective Bill Corde looks at the beautiful face of the murdered girl in the mud, he does not know his own life is about to turn into a terrifyingly real nightmare. For the girl's killer is now on the trail of Corde and his unsuspecting family: his wife, teenage son, and imaginative but vulnerable daughter, Sarah. Sarah, who alone knows the identity of the killer! About the Author Jeff Deaver was a lawyer before quitting work to become a full-time writer. He lives in North Carolina.

Title: Mistress Of Justice: Description:
Taylor Lockwood spends her days working as a paralegal in one of New York's pre-eminent Wall Street law firms and her nights playing jazz piano anywhere she can. But the rhythm of her life is disrupted when attorney Mitchell Reece requests her help in locating a stolen document that could cost him not only the multimillion dollar case he's defending but his career as well. Eager to get closer to this handsome, brilliant and very private man, Taylor signs on...only to find that as she delves deeper and deeper into what goes on behind closed doors at Hubbard, White & Willis, she uncovers more than she wants to know - including a plenitude of secrets damanging enough to smash careers and dangerous enough to push someone to commit murder.