Jeffery Deaver

Jeffery Deaver (born May 6, 1950, in Glen Ellyn, Illinois) is a mystery/crime writer. He originally started working as a journalist, but trained as a lawyer and later practised law. Many of his books tend to promote lateral thinking, particularly his short story collection Twisted. One of his books, The Blue Nowhere, features criminal hackers (one using social engineering to commit murder), as well as a law enforcement computer crime unit. His most popular series features his regular character Lincoln Rhyme, a quadriplegic detective, and Amelia Sachs. (According to a 2006 interview on the Early Show, Deaver stated that he would rotate between his new series and Lincoln Rhyme each year.) Virtually all of his works feature a trick ending, or sometimes multiple trick endings. Two of Deaver's novels have been produced into movies: The Bone Collector (1999), and A Maiden's Grave as the TV movie Dead Silence (1997). Deaver also created the characters and - in a collaboration with 14 other noted writers - wrote the 17-part serial thriller "The Chopin Manuscript" narrated by Alfred Molina that was broadcast on Audible.com from September 25th to November 13, 2007.

Jeffery Deaver

Novels

Standalone works

• Mistress of Justice (1992)
• The Lesson Of Her Death (1993)
• Praying For Sleep (1994)
• A Maiden's Grave (1995)
• The Devil's Teardrop (1999) (Lincoln Rhyme is in a chapter as a consultant)
• Speaking In Tongues (2000)
• The Blue Nowhere (2001)
• Garden Of Beasts (2004)

Rune Trilogy

1. Manhattan Is My Beat (1988)
2. Death Of A Blue Movie Star (1990)
3. Hard News (1991)

Location Scout

1. Shallow Graves (1992)
2. Bloody River Blues (1993)
3. Hell's Kitchen (2001)

Lincoln Rhyme

1. The Bone Collector (1997)
2. The Coffin Dancer (1998)
3. The Empty Chair (2000)
4. The Stone Monkey (2002)
5. The Vanished Man (2003)
6. The Twelfth Card (2005)
7. The Cold Moon (2006)
8. The Broken Window (2008)

Kathryn Dance

1. The Sleeping Doll (2007)

Collections

• A Confederacy of Crime (2001) - Deaver is the featured author in this book centered around Southern-style mystery stories.
• Twisted (2003) - 16 short stories, including one featuring Lincoln Rhyme.
• More Twisted (2006) - another short story collection

External links

• Jeffery Deaver's Official Web Site
• Jeffery Deaver's Polish Web Site
• Jeffery Deaver at the Internet Movie Database
• Book Reviews
• "The Chopin Manuscript" on Audible.com