A TEXTBOOK CASE, Jeffery Deaver
A TEXTBOOK CASE, Jeffery Deaver
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A TEXTBOOK CASE
A Lincoln Rhyme Story

Author: Jeffery Deaver

Narrator: January LaVoy, Edoardo Ballerini

Abridged: 1 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/02/2013

Synopsis

From Jeffery Deaver -- the New York Times bestselling author of the upcoming Lincoln Rhyme novel The Kill Room -- comes an original short story featuring Rhyme.

When a young woman is found brutally murdered in a parking garage, with a veritable mountain of potential evidence to sift through, it may be the most challenging case former NYPD detective Lincoln Rhyme has ever taken on.

About Jeffery Deaver

Chicago born author, Jeffery Deaver, has been richly rewarded for his successful career as a an American mystery/crime writer, including being a three-time Ellery Queen Reader's Award winner, and several different newspaper best of lists around the world.

Lincoln Rhyme, a quadriplegic detective is the main character in his most popular series of novels, such as The Broken Window. His time spent practicing law before he embarked on his writing career definitely gave him greater insight into the cases about which he writes.

He was writing about criminal hackers in his 2001 book, The Blue Nowhere. He also established a computer crime unit within the pages of the book. Several of his novels have been adapted for tv and movies. The most popular among them would be The Bone Collector, starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie.

Deaver was chosen to write an official James Bond novel, Carter Blanche, published on May 25, 2011, making him the second American author to participate in the series.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Eric on April 05, 2013

Me before reading this story: Ooh, a Kindle Single from the author that wrote the latest James Bond novel, Carte Blanche. I'm definitely going to check that out. Me after reading the first chapter: Wait a second, this story has a paraplegic forensic analyst in it? Just like that Denzel Washington mov......more

Goodreads review by Ramsey on April 10, 2013

Much as I love Jeffrey Deaver... it turns out he doesn't know much about writing short stories. Not his fault, I'm sure; this is basically a promo-piece for his book coming out in June. If you're a fan of Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme series, you know that he uses the same "tags" in every book to establish......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on July 16, 2020

I enjoyed this read immediately after overdoing it with my garden work in the heat. It helped me calm down and get the old heartbeat back to normal. It was a fast read and it was good enough to launch into another Lincoln Rhyme tale of crime as soon as I catch up on world news. The serial killer was......more

Goodreads review by Tracy on December 26, 2024

Good short story. I have to admit sometimes I think Deaver is laughing at me. I had a suspect in mind and at the end of the story he went out of his way to point out that they had ruled him out from the start. I doubt I’m ever going to solve a Lincoln Rhyme case before the big reveal. But that’s oka......more

Goodreads review by Robert on December 13, 2021

** Same review for both short stories currently available, since the problems with both are the same. Short stories featuring established characters should allow an author to stretch his wings and do something a little different, experiment on a smaller scale. Deaver instead merely offers up a conde......more

Quotes

"In Mr. Deaver's kaleidoscope world, the odds seem to change with each turn of the page."—The Wall Street Journal

"Deaver's infernal puzzle mysteries invariably inspire words like devious, diabolical, and devilish."—The New York Times

"Deaver is the grand master of the plot twist."—Booklist

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