Jeffery Deaver (born May 6, 1950) is an American

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. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the

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and a J.D. degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist. He later practiced law before embarking on a career as a novelist. He has been awarded the Steel Dagger and Short Story Dagger from the British Crime Writers' Association and the

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, and he is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story of the Year and a winner of the British Thumping Good Read Award. His novels have appeared on bestseller lists around the world, including ''

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Life and career

Deaver was born near Chicago in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. His mother was an artist, and his father an advertising writer. His sister Julie Deaver is an author of

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novels. The book that inspired him to write was ''From Russia With Love'', a

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novel by Ian Fleming. Deaver's most popular series features Lincoln Rhyme, a

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detective, and

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Detective Amelia Sachs. Deaver's 2001 book ''The Blue Nowhere'' features criminal hackers (one using social engineering to commit murder), as well as a law enforcement computer crime unit. In this book, Deaver gives credit to Lee de Forest, the inventor of the

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(also known as the

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tube), who is thus considered to have opened the world to electronic development. Deaver edited '' The Best American Mystery Stories 2009''. Three of Deaver's novels have been produced into films: * ''A Maiden's Grave'' made for TV as film ''

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'' 1997 * '' The Bone Collector'' released 1999 * '' The Devil's Teardrop'' made for TV 2010 Additionally, ''The Bone Collector'' has been adapted as a television series, '' Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector''. Deaver also created the characters and—in a collaboration with 14 other noted writers—wrote the 17-part serial thriller '' The Chopin Manuscript'' narrated by

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that was broadcast on

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from September 25 to November 13, 2007. It is also available in print. Deaver was chosen to write a new

novel: ''

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'' is set in 2011 and was published on May 25, 2011. He is the second American author to write Bond novels, after Raymond Benson.

Bibliography

Stand alone works

* ''Mistress of Justice'' (1992) * ''The Lesson of Her Death'' (1993) * ''Praying for Sleep'' (1994) * ''A Maiden's Grave'' (1995) * ''Speaking in Tongues'' (2000) * ''The Blue Nowhere'' (2001) * ''Garden of Beasts'' (2004) * '' The Chopin Manuscript'' (2008) (

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) * ''The Bodies Left Behind'' (2008) * ''Edge'' (2010) * ''The October List'' (2013)

Rune Trilogy

# '' Manhattan Is My Beat'' (1988) # '' Death of a Blue Movie Star'' (1990) # ''Hard News'' (1991)

John Pellam (Location Scout series)

# ''Shallow Graves'' (1992) # ''Bloody River Blues'' (1993) # ''

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'' (2001)

Lincoln Rhyme

# '' The Bone Collector'' (1997) # '' The Coffin Dancer'' (1998) # '' The Empty Chair'' (2000) # '' The Stone Monkey'' (2002) # '' The Vanished Man'' (2003) (includes an appearance by Parker Kincaid) # '' The Twelfth Card'' (2005) (includes an appearance by Parker Kincaid) # '' The Cold Moon'' (2006) (Introduces Kathryn Dance) # '' The Broken Window'' (2008) # ''

The Burning Wire ''The Burning Wire'' is a crime thriller novel by American writer Jeffery Deaver, featuring the officially retired, quadriplegic criminalist Lincoln Rhyme. It is the ninth novel in the Lincoln Rhyme series. Plot The sabotage of a substation of t ...

'' (2010) # ''The Kill Room'' (2013) # ''The Skin Collector'' (2014) # ''The Steel Kiss'' (2016) # ''The Burial Hour'' (2017) # ''The Cutting Edge'' (2018) # ''The Midnight Lock'' (2021)

Kathryn Dance

# ''The Sleeping Doll'' (2007) (includes a brief appearance by Lincoln Rhyme) # ''Roadside Crosses'' (2009) # ''XO'' (2012) (includes a brief appearance by Lincoln Rhyme) # ''Solitude Creek ''(May 12, 2015)

Parker Kincaid

* '' The Devil's Teardrop'' (1999) (introduces Parker Kincaid, includes a scene with Lincoln Rhyme)

Colter Shaw

# ''The Never Game'' (2019) # ''The Goodbye Man'' (2020) # ''The Final Twist'' (2021)

James Bond

* ''

'' (2011)

Collections

* ''A Confederacy of Crime'' (2001) * '' Twisted'' (2003) * ''

More Twisted ''More Twisted'' () is a 2006 collection of short stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a ...

'' (2006) (includes a story featuring Lincoln Rhyme) *''Trouble in Mind'' (2014) (includes two stories featuring Lincoln Rhyme, one story featuring Kathryn Dance and one story featuring John Pellam) * ''The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives'' (2009) (Includes a short Mysterious Profile about Lincoln Rhyme)

Anthologies

* ''Faceoff'' (2014) (includes Lincoln Rhyme vs. Lucas Davenport in “Rhymes With Prey,” by Jeffery Deaver and John Sandford * ''Nothing Good Happens After Midnight'' (2020) edited by Jeffery Deaver (includes his story "Midnight Sonata") and includes Rhys Bowen, Linwood Barclay, Heather Graham, et al.

References

External links

Official website
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