Swiping Hearts, Jeffery Deaver
Swiping Hearts, Jeffery Deaver
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Swiping Hearts

Author: Jeffery Deaver

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Unabridged: 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 09/26/2023


Synopsis

Forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme investigates his strangest case yet in this diabolical new story.

A serial killer in the making? Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are called upon to tackle a crime unlike any they’ve ever faced. An unknown subject is using his formidable skills to work his way into the lives—and hearts—of his victims, all with the goal of utterly destroying them psychologically and emotionally . . . for his pure pleasure. Rhyme recognizes the trademark sadism of a future serial killer, but the man has been meticulously careful—indeed, stopping just short of illegal behavior, ensuring that the criminalist’s forensic skills are useless against him. Will Rhyme and Sachs be able to stop the ruthless perp before the inevitable happens and he decides that breaking people metaphorically is no longer enough?

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 Bill

Legendary forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme investiagtes a unique villain, who turned out to be one of Jeffery Deaver's greatest creations. Unfortunatley, this being a short story, meant that everything had to be wrapped up & resolved far too quickly. There's a nice Deaver twist ((as always!), but th......more

Goodreads review by Natalie

Now here is a short story you could use to teach narrative writing! Perfect story arc, length and twist. Admittedly, it is far easier to capture an audience when you use established characters, especially such good ones. However, even readers who don’t follow the series would find this short story ea......more

Goodreads review by Alan

This short story was a somewhat different investigation for Lincoln Rhyme. A friend of Amelia Sach's is emotionally devastated when a man she's been "online dating" for over two months shows up in person, only to show her that he's been lying to her and leading her on the whole time. And as it turns......more

Downloaded from my public library, this was an absolutely DELIGHTFUL Lincoln Rhyme short story. No spoilers, but well worth the wait:-)......more