From Booklist Deaver is bound to slip up sometime. But not this time. This novel, which follows on the heels of Sleeping Doll (2007), again stars California Bureau of Investigation agent Kathryn Dance and, like its predecessor, is tightly constructed with a suspenseful story and plenty of plot twists. Deaver, perhaps more than any other crime writer, is able to fool even the most experienced readers with his right-angle turns, and this story of a serial killer who uses social networks to find his prey is full of them. Deaver’s investigators are very good at their jobs, and in order to fool them (and us), he must be exceedingly clever, as well as just a little bit deceitful (having characters say things that turn out not to be true, for example, even though they believed the things when they said them). So far Deaver has avoided accidentally telegraphing a plot twist in advance, but someday, surely, he’ll out-clever himself. Or maybe he won’t. This is an excellent entry in what promises to be a series as popular as the author’s Lincoln Rhyme novels. --David Pitt Product Description The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways -- not in memoriam, but as announcements of his intention to kill. And to kill in particularly horrific and efficient ways: using the personal details about the victims that they've carelessly posted in blogs and on social networking websites. The case lands on the desk of Kathryn Dance, the California Bureau of Investigation's foremost kinesics -- body language-expert. She and Deputy Michael O'Neil follow the leads to Travis Brigham, a troubled teenager whose role in a fatal car accident has inspired vicious attacks against him on a popular blog, The Chilton Report. As the investigation progresses, Travis vanishes. Using techniques he learned as a brilliant participant in MMORPGs, Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games, he easily eludes his pursuers and continues to track his victims, some of whom Kathryn is able to save, some not. Among the obstacles Kathryn must hurdle are politicians from Sacramento, paranoid parents and the blogger himself, James Chilton, whose belief in the importance of blogging and the new media threatens to derail the case and potentially Dance's career. It is this threat that causes Dance to take desperate and risky measures... In signature Jeffery Deaver style, Roadside Crosses is filled with dozens of plot twists, cliff-hangers and heartrending personal subplots. It is also a searing look at the accountability of blogging and life in the online world. Roadside Crosses is the third in Deaver's bestselling High-Tech Thriller Trilogy, along with The Blue Nowhere and The Broken Window.

On a freezing December night, with a full moon hovering in the black sky over New York City, two people are brutally murdered -- the death scenes marked by eerie, matching calling cards: moon-faced clocks inves-tigators fear ticked away the victims' last moments on earth. Renowned criminologist Lincoln Rhyme immediately identifies the clock distributor and has the chilling realization that the killer -- who has dubbed himself the Watchmaker -- has more murders planned in the hours to come.

Rhyme, a quadriplegic long confined to his wheelchair, immediately taps his trusted partner and longtime love, Amelia Sachs, to walk the grid and be his eyes and ears on the street. But Sachs has other commitments now -- namely, her first assignment as lead detective on a homicide of her own. As she struggles to balance her pursuit of the infuriatingly elusive Watchmaker with her own case, Sachs unearths shocking revelations about the police force that threaten to undermine her career, her sense of self and her relationship with Rhyme. As the Rhyme-Sachs team shows evi-dence of fissures, the Watchmaker is methodically stalking his victims and planning a diabolical criminal masterwork.... Indeed, the Watchmaker may be the most cunning and mesmerizing villain Rhyme and Sachs have ever encountered.

The hero of Jeffery Deaver's thriller The Bone Collector is Lincoln Rhyme, a forensic scientist known to his peers as "the world's foremost criminalist". Rhyme will need all his reason--and his considerable stock of high-tech tools--about him to solve this latest brain-twister: a serial killer with method to his madness. In tried and true thriller fashion, the killer's crimes are described in lurid detail, as is the astounding technological equipment with which Rhyme examines the evidence--everything from an energy-dispersive x-ray unit to a mass spectrometer. Every fictional detective has his or her gimmick, from Sherlock Holmes's violin to Nero Wolf's orchids, and Rhyme is no exception. He is a quadriplegic who can move nothing but a single finger. Gadget-philes will be in seventh heaven reading about Lincoln Rhyme's tools; other readers might feel the book could do with a few more plausible characters and a little less technology. --Amazon.com Praise for Jeffery Deaver's other novels -- : 'There's no question...about Deaver's unexcelled ability to pull the wool over your eyes. When he describes a colorless, odorless glass of liquid as water, don't assume it is until somebody drinks it down - or maybe till an hour later.' -- Kirkus Reviews on THE TWELFTH CARD 'The best psychological thriller writer around' -- The Times 'The most creative, skilled and intriguing thriller writer in the world ... [Deaver] has produced a stunning series of bestsellers with unique characterisation, intelligent characters, beguiling plots and double-barrelled and sometimes triple-barrelled solutions.' -- Daily Telegraph 'This is a novel that will chill your blood on the warmest day of any summer holiday. Keep looking over your shoulder...' -- Independent on Sunday 'Jeffery Deaver is a master at crafting intricate crimes that are solved through guile, tenacity and sheer creative genius. And Lincoln Rhyme is one of a kind.' -- Harlan Coben 'Sophisticated chiller... compulsive reading' Guardian 'Engrossing, entertaining and fizzing with energy, this is a suspense thriller to keep narcolepts awake' Val McDermid, Manchester Evening News 'Those who were gripped by Deaver's last novel, A Maiden's Grave, will not be surprised at the double-double-take finale, but I am willing to bet they still won't get it. Another genuinely compulsive chiller from the best psychological thriller writer around' Peter Millar, The Times ‘Superlatively plotted novel, rich in reversal and false endings’ The Sunday Times 'Deaver marries forensic work that would do Patricia Cornwell proud to a turbocharged plot that puts Benzedrine to shame' - Kirkus Reviews 'Deaver's villains are often intelligent as well as violent and, in his latest yarn hae has created a most unusual hero, plus his most inventive killer...the plot twists dramatically' Middlesborough Evening Gazette 'Take Patricia Cornwell's forensic investigation, add Thomas Harris and serial killers and mix in the tension that made Deaver's last novel A Maiden's Grave such a gripping read and you have THE BONE COLLECTOR, with the added bonus that it features one of the most original investigators in the history of crime fiction' Shropshire Star 'Truly gripping' Peterborough Evening Telegraph 'Deaver has made a very good fist of scaring the pants of his readers. One to be read during daylight hours, and definitely not in a taxi' Irish Times 'Full of twists and turns, building up to a nail-biting climax' Yorkshire Evening Press 'A suitably bizarre hero for a flamboyantly grotesque thriller...The Bone Collector craftily blends aspects of several recent trends in crime fiction. This breakneck thrill-ride reads like a movie, but there's some admirable writing' Wall Street Journal 'Jeffery Deaver has produced one of the most explosive thrillers of the year. Don't miss it' Liverpool Daily Post 'Undeniably effective, but ultra-grisly. Approach with care' Literary Review ‘The contemporary psychological thriller doesn’t get any better than this, the stunning and ingeniously-wrought tale... This is a sensational thriller, brilliantly researched, chilling and almost unbearably gripping to the very end’ Northern Echo ‘Unsettling stuff with a surprisingly heart-warming ending’ Dorset Evening Echo 'Sophisticated chiller... compulsive reading' (Guardian ) 'Engrossing, entertaining and fizzing with energy, this is a suspense thriller to keep narcolepts awake' (Val McDermid ) 'Those who were gripped by Deaver's last novel, A Maiden's Grave, will not be surprised at the double-double-take finale, but I am willing to bet they still won't get it. Another genuinely compulsive chiller from the best psychological thriller writer around' (Peter Millar, The Times ) ‘Superlatively plotted novel, rich in reversal and false endings’ (The Sunday Times ) 'Sophisticated chiller... compulsive reading'

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