About a month ago, I started reading this author’s books. I started with the John Pellham series…but eventually found my way to the Lincoln Rhyme/Amelia Sachs Series.
Man, these are VERY good, in my opinion. For those of you not too into books or who never heard of J.D. He’s the author of The Bone Collecter, which happens to be the first installment in the L.R/A.S series of books.
I find them so captivating. And you can always rest assured that there will be a shock and twist ending in those ones (or even 2 or 3).
I started at the beginning, with The Bone Collecter. Then, in order, I read The Coffin Dancer, The Empty Chair, and am now on The Stone Monkey. I already have The Vanished Man ready for when I complete TSM.
Anyone else read any of the Lincoln Rhyme Series or even of any of Jeffery Deavers works? What do you think of it?
I came across Twisted, a compilationof Deaver’s short stories, quite by chance while looking for some airplane reading material. It is an absolutely superb collection, IMHO, and well worth reading. 16 or so beautifully crafted short stories, all with a crime theme, and all with a delicious twist.
Thus encouraged, I bought one of his full-length books, The Vanished Man. I thought this was going to be good as it ostensibly featured impossible crimes (in the manner of the late, great John Dickson Carr) and lots to do with my humble trade as a magcian. Unfortunately, the ‘impossible crime’ bits are truly weak, being alternatively either weak and easy to guess or hard and never properly accounted for or explained in the book. As for all the references in the book to magic, magicians and how we do what we do… he’s way off the mark. I don’t know how someone who is reputedly very good at preparatory research could get so many things so wrong, but he does. I was going to try at least one more of his full-length novels, but then I saw the movie version of The Bone Collector on TV and I figured… no thanks, I’ll pass.
As a small drive-by suggestion, if you like the ‘impossible crime / sleuthing’ aspect of Deaver, then if you haven’t already done so read the works of John Dickson Carr. He was the undisputed master of the genre, and there’s plenty of his books to get through (The Judas Window being just one favourite example).