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First British Edition Hodder (2002) |
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The Stone Monkey
Lincoln Rhyme returns - to take on the terrifying world of Chinese organized crime.
Recruited to help the US government perform the nearly impossible, Lincoln Rhyme and his partner Amelia Sachs manage to track down a cargo ship carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants, as well as the notorious human smuggler and killer known as the Ghost.
But when the Ghost’s capture goes disastrously wrong, Lincoln and Amelia find themselves in a race against time - to stop the Ghost before he can discover and murder the two surviving families who have vanished deep into the labyrinthine world of New York City’s Chinese community.
Over the next harrowing forty-eight hours, the Ghost ruthlessly hunts for the families, while Rhyme, aided by a policeman from mainland China, struggles to find them before they die and Sachs pursues a very different kind of police work, forming a connection with one of the immigrants that may have consequences going to the core of her relationship with her partner and lover, Lincoln Rhyme.
With The Stone Monkey, Jeffery Deaver brings back his best-loved characters and displays his enormous talent at a new level. With heart-stopping deadlines, wholly unexpected plot twists, breakneck pacing and people who are extremely real, this novel reminds us once again why The Times hailed Deaver as `the best psychological thriller writer around’.
Death Of A Blue Movie Star
Rune, the quirky, irrepressible heroine of Manhattan 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.
But when one of these explosions shatters the lives of those close to her, Rune suspects that there’s more to the attacks than meets the eye. Aided by NYPD bomb squad expert Sam Healey and armed with nothing more than a video camera and her courage, she plunges into the underbelly of Manhattan on a dangerous search for the real killer.
Suspenseful and pacy, the story explodes in a shocking conclusion which, in true Deaver style, delivers a thrilling double-whammy punch.
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First British Edition Hodder & Stoughton (2000) |
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The Empty Chair
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Cath Staincliffe
- Author of the highly acclaimed Sal Kilkenny Mysteries set on the Mean Streets of Manchester
When criminalist Lincoln Rhyme travels to a world-famous spinal
cord injuries center in North Carolina for some experimental surgery,
he hopes that the operation will give him slightly more movement. He knows that it may kill him.
But before he has a chance to undergo surgery, Rhyme and his assistant Amelia are drafted in by the local police department to use their forensic skills to help find two women kidnapped by a psychotic young man known locally as the Insect Boy. A cat and mouse game through the abandoned swamps of North Carolina is to have more devastating consequences than either Lincoln or Amelia can anticipate.
‘Slick, breathless stuff from a master of suspense in full flight’ Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian
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The Devil's Teardrop
It's Washington, D.C.; it's the last night of the year, and people are dying…
At 9 am on New Year's Eve a man gets onto the packed escalator of a metro station and fires a silenced machine gun into the crowd. He escapes without being spotted in the confusion caused by the horror of this vicious attack, which leaves dozens of people killed and injured.
One hour later, a note is delivered to the mayor: twenty million dollars, or the writer will instruct the killer to strike again; at 4 pm, at 9 pm, at midnight… hundreds more will die.
The money has to be found, the ransom will have to be paid. But then a hit-and-run victim is identified as the mastermind behind the operation, and suddenly there's no way of stopping the psychotic gunman killing again, and again, and again…
The only thing the FBI have to go on is the note. Parker Kincaid, forensic document expert, and agent-in-charge, Margaret Lukas, could be the only people who can stop the killer.
'The best psychological thriller writer around' The Times
‘Deaver is a terrific storyteller, and he takes the reader on a rollercoaster of suspense, violence and mystery...Good entertainment. ‘ Susanna Yager, Daily Telegraph
"Jeffery Deaver's fiendish new suspense thriller...Amazing as it sounds, Deaver makes the intellectual puzzle the most thrilling part of his high-anxiety drama, which twists, turns and leaves us weak." The New York Times Book Review
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First British Edition Hodder & Stoughton (1998) |
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The Coffin Dancer
Lincoln Rhyme was the head of the New York Police Department's forensics before an accident on the job shattered his spine and confined him to his bed forever. He was the world's foremost criminalist. He still is.
Percey Clay, the uncompromising owner of a struggling charter flight service, found herself in the wrong place at the wrong time and is now the target of an unstoppable professional killer called the Coffin Dancer - a murderer whom Lincoln Rhyme knows only too well. A criminal who's raised killing to a form of high art; whose deadliest weapons aren't guns or knives but his uncanny knowledge of human nature and an utterly amoral soul.
Together, Rhyme and his assistant, NYPD patrolwoman Amelia Sachs, engage in a desperate fencing match of strategy with the brilliant Coffin Dancer. Combating both the killer's evil genius . and Percey Clay's fierce determination to keep her company afloat, Rhyme must use all his talents to save her and the rest of the innocent victims the Coffin Dancer uses as pawns in his plots to isolate and eliminate his target.
Taking place within the space of one harrowing weekend, The Coffin Dancer includes spellbinding forensic detective work and a fascinating glimpse into the world of commercial aviation. Featuring Deaver's trademark plot twists, flesh-and-blood characters and page-turning action, this new novel is another winner from 'the best psychological thriller writer around' (The Times).
‘Jeffery Deaver's last book, The Bone Collector, put him firmly in the premiere league of thriller writers. His latest, The Coffin Dancer, puts him at the top. Edge of the seat stuff; with two classy twists at the end ‘ Yorkshire Evening Press
‘Another dynamite read from Deaver ‘ Liverpool Daily Post
‘I consider Jeffery Deaver to be up there jostling for position with the likes of Block, Leonard and McBain. ‘ Shots
‘Engrossing, entertaining, and fizzing with energy’ Val McDermid
‘Deaver is just as cunning and deceptive as his killer; don’t assume he’s run out of tricks until you’ve run out of pages’ Publishers Weekly
About The Author
Jeffrey Deaver is a true craft master and his international profile has rocketed since his first Lincoln Rhyme novel, The Bone Collector, hit the silver screen early this year in a big-budget feature from Universal Studios starring Denzel Washington as Lincoln and Angelina Jolie as Amelia. This was the second of his books to be made into a film. The first was A Maiden's Grave which was filmed by HBO (released as "Dead Silence") starring James Garner and Marlee Matlin.
Deaver has been a full-time author for ten years. He's written many best-selling suspense novels and has been nominated three times for Edgar Awards by the Mystery Writers of America and is the two-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 's Award for Best Short Story of the Year.
He has had a varied career. He wrote his first book at age 11 (mercifully unpublished) and has been writing ever since. Former editor of his school's literary magazine, he has a journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University in New York. He practiced law for eight years' though by his own admission he was a dreadful lawyer and preferred to socialise with the opposite side of cases over a beer, rather than go for the throat in the courtrooms of New York.
He was also a folksinger, songwriter and music researcher for a time and was, believe if or not, a professional poet for a few years, though the most he ever made at that business was six dollars in one year.
Deaver, who 's divorced with no children, spends most of his time in Virginia, with his large German Shepherd, writing books, short stories and film scripts. His hobbies are travelling, cooking, collecting wine and entertaining - most recently he gave a medieval feast (with costumes and authentic recipes from the 1300s) for fifty people.
Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.
The Stone Monkey
(Hodder,
2002)
Death Of A Blue Movie Star
(Hodder & Stoughton,
2001)
Coronet Pbk Mar 01
Bloody River Blues
(
2001)
Hodder & Stoughton Sep 01
The Empty Chair
(Hodder & Stoughton,
2000)
(Lincoln Rhyme)
The Devil's Teardrop
(Hodder & Stoughton,
1999)
Hodder & Stoughton Oct 99
Coronet Pbk May 00
The Coffin Dancer
(Hodder & Stoughton,
1998)
(Lincoln Rhyme)
The Bone Collector
(Hodder & Stoughton,
1997)
(Lincoln Rhyme)
A Maiden's Grave
(Hodder & Stoughton,
1995)
Praying for Sleep
(Hodder & Stoughton,
1994)
Speaking in Tongues
Lesson of Her Death
The Stone Monkey
by Jeffery Deaver
