Jeffery Deaver

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The Blue Nowhere

The Stone Monkey

Hard News

Death Of A Blue Movie Star

Manhattan is My Beat

WebPage: http://www.jefferydeaver.com

by Jeffery Deaver

About the Author (Photo by Jerry Bauer)

Bibliography

Audio Tape Hodder Headline Audio (2002)

The Blue Nowhere
Imagine yourself in a bar. A man approaches you. He doesn’t seem familiar but he knows your past, your job, your hobbies and your ex-boyfriend’s name. You go for a drink.
This is your first - and last - mistake. You’re the latest victim of the latest killer. A man who can rip away the thin carapace protecting the secrets of your life - before ending it.
'The best psychological thriller writer around' The Times William Hootkins is an established actor with a wide range of distinguished film, television and theatre credits. He has appeared in such films as Star Wars, Superman, Raiders of the Lost Ark and A River Runs Through It, as well as the television series Cheers, Black Adder II and Poirot. His theatre work includes Death of a Salesman and A Man for All Seasons, and he recently appeared alongside Helen Mirren in Orpheus Descending.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs Abridged by Peter Mackie Produced by Heavy Entertainment

Audio Tape - Hodder Headline Audio (2002)

The Stone Monkey
Lincoln and Amelia are recruited 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 capture goes disastrously wrong, Lincoln and Amelia find themselves in a race to stop him 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 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.
Kerry Shale is an award-winning reader whose credits include such films as Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and Labyrinth, as well as a range of Audiobooks and a number of documentary voice-overs for the BBC, Granada and the Discovery Channel.
2 Cassettes Running Time: Null Abridged by Peter Mackie Produced by Heavy Entertainment

Audio Tape ISIS (2002)

Hard News
The irrepressible heroine of Manhattan is My Beat and Death of a Blue Movie Star is back.
Rune has now graduated to the first rung on the ladder of film documentary success - a major New York network news department. Once there, she finds herself inexorably drawn to the brutal murder of the network head, and to the young drifter accused of the crime, who, she swiftly becomes convinced, could not have been the killer. Despite the weight of evidence against the young man, Rune decides to try and prove his innocence, and finds an unlikely - and untrustworthy - ally in bitchy-but-powerful anchorwoman, Piper Sutton.
But it’s not just the accused that has problems. With her meddling, Rune has herself attracted some unwelcome attention. There’s a hitman in town and it seems that she’s the target . . .
Jeff Harding was born in Massachusetts, U.S.A.
He has worked extensively in television, with recent roles in The Fast Show and Trail of Guilt. Jeff also played Father Buzz Cagney in Father Ted. Jeff has appeared in feature films including Tomorrow Never Dies.
Unabridged: 9 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 8 hrs 45 mins

Audio Tape - ISIS (2001)

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.
Jeff Harding was born in Massachusetts, U.S.A.
He has worked extensively in television, with recent roles in The Fast Show and Trail of Guilt. Jeff also played Father Buzz Cagney in Father Ted. Jeff has appeared in feature films including Tomorrow Never Dies.
Unabridged: 8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 8 hrs 15 mins

Audio Tape ISIS (2001)

Manhattan is My Beat
Five feet two inches of slick repartee, near-purple hair and poetic imagination, twenty-year-old Rune hasn’t been in Manhattan very long. But she’s crafty enough to have found a squatter’s paradise in an empty TriBeCa loft, and a video store job that feeds her passion for old movies. It’s a passion she shares with her favourite customer, Mr Kelly, a lonely old man who rents the same video over and over again: a film noir classic based on a real-life unsolved bank heist and a million missing dollars. It’s called Manhattan Is My Beat.
That’s the tape Rune is picking up from Mr Kelly’s shabby apartment when she finds him shot to death. She is certain the key to solving the murder is hidden somewhere in the hazy, black-and-white frames of Mr Kelly’s beloved movie . . .
‘The best psychological thriller writer around’ The Times Jeff Harding was born in Massachusetts, U.S.A.
He has worked extensively in television, with recent roles in The Fast Show and Trail of Guilt. Jeff also played Father Buzz Cagney in Father Ted. Jeff has appeared in feature films including Tomorrow Never Dies.
Unabridged: 6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 8 hrs 15 mins

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 Blue Nowhere (Hodder Headline Audio, 2002)

The Stone Monkey (Hodder Headline Audio, 2002)

Hard News (ISIS, 2002)

Death Of A Blue Movie Star (ISIS, 2001)

Manhattan is My Beat (ISIS, 2001)

The Coffin Dancer (ISIS, 2001)