Edited by Andrew F. Gulli and Lamia J. Gulli. S&S/Touchstone, $24.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4516-0737-6
Twenty-six of the best-known names in the business—including Jeffery Deaver, Faye Kellerman, Alexander McCall Smith, Kathy Reichs, Thomas H. Cook, and Lisa Scottoline—contribute chapters to this modestly entertaining "who-really-done-it." In 2000,...
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Edited by David Baldacci. Simon & Schuster, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4767-6206-7
A clever concept distinguishes this anthology sponsored by the International Thriller Writers. Each of the 11 stories pairs well-known series characters created by different authors, sometimes in adversarial but more often in collegial ways, and...
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Edited by Maxim Jakubowski. Titan, $14.95 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-789091-32-8
Though billed as a crime compendium, this wildly uneven anthology includes tales of love in a Paris bookshop (R.J. Ellory’s “Borrowed Time”) and revenge for breaching dating etiquette (Jason Starr’s “The Ghost of Williamsburg”). On the major crime...
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Edited by Maxim Jakubowski. Titan, $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-789097-98-6
Jakubowski (Venice Noir) has gathered some of the most notable winners of the Crime Writers’ Association Short Story Dagger Award for this strong anthology. The best of the 19 selections come with a sting in the tail that undermines readers’...
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Jeffery Deaver, Author Simon & Schuster $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-684-87126-4
Before he launched his praised and popular series about quadriplegic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme (The Empty Chair, etc.), Deaver made his reputation with tricky, stylish thrillers such as Praying for Sleep and Manhattan Is My Beat. This slick novel...
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Jeffery Deaver, Author . Simon & Schuster $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7432-2200-6
Fans of Deaver know that he works storytelling magic in his thrillers, not just the Lincoln Rhyme tales (The Stone Monkey, etc.) but also the stand-alones (The Blue Nowhere, etc.). It's fitting, then, that in his new, giddily entertaining story...
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Jeffery Deaver, Author Simon & Schuster $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-684-85285-0
Deaver has come a long way since his Rune novels (Manhattan Is My Beat; Death of a Blue Movie Star), and the measure of his growth as a writer is on display in this taut sequel to the bestselling The Bone Collector, starring quadriplegic forensic...
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Jeffery Deaver, Author Simon & Schuster $24.95 (433p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4118-9
Bestseller Deaver's second story collection (after 2003's ""Twisted"") is best enjoyed in small doses, since, as the author states in his preface, each of the 16 suspense tales contains a ""gut-wrenching twist,"" a formulaic final reversal that...
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Jeffery Deaver. Simon & Schuster, $26.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4516-2069-6
The James Bond franchise is thriving, and this terrific new pastiche will amply reward Bond fans and possibly bring new readers into the fold. Deaver (Edge), an avowed fan of the Fleming canon, has set the novel in the post-9/11 present, and Bond,...
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Jeffery Deaver. S&S/Touchstone, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5637-7
Thriller Award–winner Deaver’s excellent third novel featuring Kathryn Dance (after 2009’s Roadside Crosses) takes the California Bureau of Investigation agent on a vacation trip to Fresno, where she plans to collect music for her American Tunes Web
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Jeffery Deaver. Grand Central, $28.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4555-1706-0
In bestseller Deaver’s extremely timely 10th Lincoln Rhyme novel (after 2010’s The Burning Wire), Rhyme, partner Amelia Sachs, and other regulars conduct a highly irregular investigation that points up the moral ambiguities involved in what are...
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Jeffery Deaver. Grand Central, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4555-7664-7
Thriller Award–winner Deaver (Edge) delivers a clever, demanding stand-alone that moves backward in time over the span of a three-day weekend, from Sunday evening to early Friday morning. In the first chapter, office manager Gabriela McKenzie, whose
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Jeffery Deaver. Grand Central, $26 (560p) ISBN 978-1-4555-2679-6
The 12 tales in bestseller Deaver’s third story collection (after 2006’s More Twisted) abound in shrewd detection and twists. In “Fast,” series lead Kathryn Dance and colleagues attempt to stop a terrorist attack. Another series character, Lincoln...
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Jeffery Deaver. Grand Central, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4555-1713-8
In bestseller Deaver’s outstanding 11th Lincoln Rhyme novel (after 2013’s The Kill Room), the quadriplegic forensic expert and NYPD detective Amelia Sachs track artistic killer Billy Haven, whose weapon of choice is a poison-injecting American Eagle
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Jeffery Deaver. Grand Central, $28 (464p) ISBN 978-1-4555-1715-2
Numerous surprises are in store for Kathryn Dance (and the reader) in bestseller Deaver’s stellar fourth novel featuring the California Bureau of Investigation kinesics expert (after 2012’s XO). As part of Operation Pipeline, which is aimed at...
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Jeffery Deaver. Grand Central, $28 (496p) ISBN 978-1-4555-3634-4
Bestseller Deaver’s clever 12th Lincoln Rhyme novel (after 2014’s The Skin Collector) finds the forensic expert no longer working for the NYPD. But Rhyme’s lover, NYPD Major Cases detective Amelia Sachs, could use his help. She was chasing a murder...
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Jeffery Deaver. Grand Central, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4555-3637-5
The abduction of a business executive on Manhattan’s Upper East Side by a man calling himself the Composer kicks off Thriller Award–winner Deaver’s intriguing, if overly complicated, 13th novel featuring forensic expert Lincoln Rhyme (after 2016’s...
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Jeffery Deaver. Grand Central, $28 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4555-3642-9
At the start of Thriller Award–winner Deaver’s stellar 14th Lincoln Rhyme novel (after 2017’s The Burial Hour), William Sloane and Anna Markam, an engaged couple, enter the jewelry store of Jatin Patel, a master diamond cutter who works in Manhattan’
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Jeffery Deaver, Author . Simon & Schuster $26.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5633-9
An explosion at a Manhattan electrical power substation that destroys a bus—followed by threats of much worse violence unless Algonquin Consolidated Power and Light meets virtually impossible demands—sparks Deaver's sterling ninth...
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Jeffery Deaver, Author . Simon & Schuster $26 (432p) ISBN 978-0-684-87127-1
How do you write a truly gripping thriller about people staring into computer screens? Many have tried, none have succeeded—until now. Leave it to Deaver, the most clever plotter on the planet, to do it—by simply applying the same...
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Jeffery Deaver, Author . S&S $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6095-4
The title applies in several ways to this wicked collection of crime short stories by bestselling author Deaver (The Vanished Man
, etc.): to many of the stories' characters and protagonists, who include murderers, adulterers, thieves; to the...
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Jeffery Deaver, Author . Simon & Schuster $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7432-2201-3
Deaver fans expect the unexpected from this prodigiously talented thriller writer, and the creator of the Lincoln Rhyme series and other memorable yarns (The Blue Nowhere
, etc.) doesn't disappoint with his 19th novel, this time offering a...
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Jeffery Deaver, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6092-3
Lincoln Rhyme, Deaver's popular paraplegic detective, returns (after The Vanished Man
) in a robust thriller that demonstrates Deaver's unflagging ability to entertain. But even great entertainers have high and lows, and this novel, while...
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Jeffery Deaver, Author . Simon & Schuster $26 (401p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6093-0
Bestseller Deaver's twisty seventh Lincoln Rhyme novel (after 2005's The Twelfth Card
) pits Rhyme, the quadriplegic NYPD detective, against a brilliant criminal mastermind called the Watchmaker. Assisted by his longtime partner, Det. Amelia
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Jeffery Deaver, Author . Simon & Schuster $26.95 (428p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6094-7
Kathryn Dance, an investigator with the California Bureau of Investigation, returns from Deaver's The Cold Moon
(where she was a secondary) in this post–prison break pulse-pounder. Dance is the lead cop handling the escape of psychopathic
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Jeffery Deaver, Author . Simon & Schuster $26.95 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4997-0
In bestseller Deaver’s entertaining eighth Lincoln Rhyme novel (after The Cold Moon
), Rhyme, a forensic consultant for the NYPD, and his detective partner, Amelia Sachs, take on a psychotic mastermind who uses data mining—“the
...
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Jeffery Deaver, Author Simon & Schuster $26 (350p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9561-8
Usually a strong plotter, bestseller Deaver (The Bone Collector
) fails to deliver on the promise of this stand-alone thriller’s nicely creepy opening. When two masked men break into the isolated lakeside weekend house of Steven Feldman, who...
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Jeffery Deaver, Author . Simon & Schuster $26.95 (399p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4999-4
In bestseller Deaver's surprise-filled third Kathryn Dance novel (after The Sleeping Doll
), Dance, an agent with the California Bureau of Investigation, gets an eye-opening education in some of the hottest areas of the cyberworld. After an...
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Jeffery Deaver, Author $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-684-85292-8
FYI: Universal Pictures is producing Deaver's The Bone Collector as a film starring Denzel Washington.
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Jeffery Deaver, Author Simon & Schuster $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-684-85563-9
Lincoln Rhyme, the gruff quadriplegic detective and forensic expert of Bone Collector fame, strays far from his Manhattan base to a spooky North Carolina backwater in this engrossing and outlandish tale about the hunt for evil. The hick town is...
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Jeffery Deaver, Author, Lovece, Author Doubleday Books $18.5 (344p) ISBN 978-0-385-42377-9
A plethora of generally interesting asides make this lethargically paced mystery an easy, yet ultimately a somewhat frustrating read. As we follow the paralegal days and jazz-piano-playing nights of Ms. Taylor Lockwood, we glimpse the truth behind...
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Jeffery Deaver, Author, Heinz Rupp, Author Viking Books $21.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-670-85432-5
While flash floods sweep New England, escaped schizophrenic Michael Hrubek leads pursuers on a perilous chase as he seeks to confront Lisbonne Atcheson, whose testimony clinched his conviction as the Indian Leap State Park murderer. The premise is...
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Jeffery Deaver, Author, Snow, Author Viking Books $22.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-670-86622-9
It's said that great minds think alike; apparently great thriller writers do too. Here's the second outstanding novel in as many months to see a busload of schoolchildren kidnapped by maniacs. The first was Mary Willis Walker's Under the Beetle's...
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Jeffery Deaver, Author, Sharyn McCrumb, Author, Ed McBain, Editor MacMillan Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59397-682-8
The late McBain had a great idea when he got together 10 top crime writers to produce new novellas for a fat anthology called Transgressions, and the folks at Audio Renaissance have been equally smart at choosing some of the book's best stories for...
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Jeffery Deaver, read by James Snyder, January LaVoy, and Edoardo Ballerini. Hachette Audio, unabridged, 12 CDs, 13.75 hrs., $39.98 ISBN 978-1-61969-636-5
Deaver returns to his popular Lincoln Rhyme series with this latest installment that finds Rhyme and his partner heading to the Bahamas to investigate the murder of an American citizen by the United States government. Narrated by the trio of Jay...
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Jeffrey Deaver, read by multiple narrators. Hachette Audio, , unabridged, 14 CDs, 17 hrs., $35 ISBN 978-1-4789-2546-0
This multinarrator effort enlivens the masterful plot twists in Deaver’s 12 stories. Among the stories, “Fast” finds investigator Kathryn Dance in a battle of wits with a playful terrorist who won’t reveal the whereabouts of a bomb planted in...
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Jeffery Deaver, Author, Adam Grupper, Read by , read by Adam Grupper. Simon & Schuster $26 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-2825-2
Not since Bill Bixby's The Magician
has illusion played such a vigorous role in the investigation of a homicide. A girl is murdered, the killer is caught red-handed, then trapped in a sealed room with a hostage. A shot is fired and when the...
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Jeffery Deaver, Author, William Jefferies, Author Pocket Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-671-04751-1
Edgar Award-nominated Deaver (Bloody River Blues, etc.) exposes the brutal side of the Big Apple as John Pellam, a former Hollywood location scout, takes to the streets of Hell's Kitchen to film a documentary. Pellam is on his way to check on one of
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Jeffery Deaver, Author, Dennis Boutsikaris, Read by , read by Dennis Boutsikaris. Simon & Schuster Audio $49.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-7053-4
Dennis Boutsikaris’s reading of Deaver’s latest Lincoln Rhyme thriller is positively chilling. When the quadriplegic detective’s cousin is arrested for murder, it seems to be an open-and-shut case, as plenty of forensic evidence...
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Jeffery Deaver, Author, Dennis Boutsikaris, Read by Simon & Schuster Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-4433-7
The popularity of Deaver's novels about quadriplegic police detective Lincoln Rhyme and his legwoman Amelia Sachs depends mightily on their personal stories (i.e., their romantic relationship, their struggles with depression and physical impairments)
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Jeffery Deaver, Author, Joe Mantegna, Read by Simon & Schuster Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-5267-7
Mantegna applies his considerable talent to this latest Lincoln Rhymes mystery. Deaver's quadriplegic detective, Rhymes and his partner, Det. Amelia Sachs, attempt to stop a sadistic serial killer known as the Watchmaker, so named because he leaves...
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Jeffery Deaver, Author, Joe Mantegna, Read by Simon & Schuster Audio $49.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-5268-4
Mantegna applies his considerable talent to this latest Lincoln Rhymes mystery. Deaver's quadriplegic detective, Rhymes and his partner, Det. Amelia Sachs, attempt to stop a sadistic serial killer known as the Watchmaker, so named because he leaves...
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Jeffery Deaver, Author, Michele Pawk, Read by , read by Michele Pawk. Audioworks $49.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-8215-5
Tony Award–winning actress Michele Pawk nicely captures the inner monologues of Deaver's protagonist Kathryn Dance, the California Bureau of Investigation's leading kinesics expert. Dance's remarkable sixth sense concerning the...
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Jeffery Deaver, Author, Azzi, Author, Izzi, Author Crimeline $3.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-553-28547-5
When a porno movie theater is blown up in Times Square, 21-year-old film production assistant Rune (no last name given) decides that this is the chance to realize her dream of making her own film. Using the bombing as a hook for a documentary on...
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Jeffery Deaver, Author, Brustein, Author Signet Book $7.99 (431p) ISBN 978-0-451-18146-6
This engrossing thriller depicts the hunt for a 300-pound schizophrenic murderer who escaped from a New England asylum. (Dec.)
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Jeffery Deaver, Author, Milanesi, Author Doubleday Books $15 (308p) ISBN 978-0-385-42121-8
Rune, the shrewd and spunky heroine of Manhattan Is My Beat , returns with a new job as a camerawoman for a local TV news station, but she still believes in magic and lives by her own rules. Rune thinks that Randy Boggs, convicted killer of network...
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Jeffery Deaver, Author, C'Higgins, Author, Niall Ed. O'Higgins, Author Doubleday Books $18.5 (418p) ISBN 978-0-385-42481-3
Attorney-author Deaver, whose Manhattan Is My Beat was an Edgar nominee, delivers a harrowing and substantial suspense thriller. The investigation into the murder of Auden University coed Jennie Gebben, whose mutilated body is found in a ``bed of...
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Jeffery Deaver, Author, Wilson, Author Viking Books $22.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-670-86871-1
Deaver (A Maiden's Grave) is too fond of gimmicks. They range in this novel from the extreme (his detective here, Lincoln Rhyme, is a quadriplegic who can move only one finger) to the moderately eccentric (beautiful policewoman Amelia Sachs, who...
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William Jefferies, Author, Jeffery Deaver, Author Avon Books $4.5 (266p) ISBN 978-0-380-76670-3
Movie location scout John Pellam is working in Maddox, Mo., when he goes out for a case of beer. This innocuous outing lands him in big trouble when his beer collides with the door of a parked car whose occupants subsequently commit a rubout. Next...
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Jeffery Deaver. Putnam, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-0-525-53594-2
Colter Shaw, the hero of this superb series launch from Thriller Award winner Deaver (the Lincoln Rhyme series), travels around the U.S. in an RV, earning rewards for finding missing persons, fugitives, and “suspects who have not yet been identified
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Jeffery Deaver. Putnam, $28 (432p) ISBN 978-0-525-53597-3
Bestseller Deaver’s outstanding sequel to 2019’s The Never Game takes professional reward seeker Colter Shaw to Washington State in pursuit of the bounty offered for information leading to the apprehension of Adam Harper and Erick Young, who are...
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Jeffery Deaver. Putnam, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-0-525-53913-1
Part one of MWA Grand Master Deaver’s subpar third thriller featuring professional reward-seeker Colter Shaw (after 2020’s The Goodbye Man), titled “The Mission,” includes the statement: “Time until the family dies: fifty-two hours.” The explanation
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Jeffery Deaver. Putnam, $28 (448p) ISBN 978-0-525-53600-0
In MWA Grand Master Deaver’s disappointing 15th Lincoln Rhyme novel (after 2018’s The Cutting Edge), Rhyme, a former cop who does consulting as a forensic expert, must deal with the fallout from a devastating courtroom embarrassment. His conclusions
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Jeffery Deaver. Putnam, $29 (432p) ISBN 978-0-593-42208-3
MWA Grand Master Deaver’s bland fourth thriller featuring professional reward-seeker Colter Shaw (after 2021’s The Final Twist) takes Shaw to the tough Midwestern city of Ferrington, where entrepreneur Marty Harmon’s startup company has been working
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Jeffery Deaver. Putnam, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-0-593-42211-3
Undercooked plotting muddies Deaver’s bloated 16th thriller featuring Lincoln Rhyme (after The Midnight Lock), in which the quadriplegic NYPD detective faces off against a master criminal from his past. At the start, Rhyme is hoping to close a...
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Jeffery Deaver and Isabella Maldonado. Thomas & Mercer, $28.99 (446p) ISBN 978-1-6625-1871-3
This sure-footed collaboration between bestseller Deaver (The Bone Collector) and Maldonado (The Cipher) centers on special agent Carmen Sanchez, who’s recently been assigned to Homeland Security investigations in Southern California. Sanchez’s rash
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Jeffery Deaver and Isabella Maldonado. Thomas & Mercer, $28.99 (388p) ISBN 978-1-6625-1875-1
Deaver and Maldonando’s second novel featuring Department of Homeland Security agents Carmen Sanchez and Jake Heron (after Fatal Intrusion) is a run-of-the-mill serial killer thriller. Given Sanchez’s investigative chops and Heron’s tech skills, the
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Jeffery Deaver. Putnam, $30 (416p) ISBN 978-0-593717-49-3
Expert tracker Colter Shaw, who collects rewards for finding fugitives and missing persons, pursues a suspicious new case while probing his family’s past in this riveting fifth series entry from Deaver (after Hunting Time). At the outset, Colter...
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