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Praise for Jeffery Deaver's novels
(: )'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 . . .'
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Praise for Jeffery Deaver's novels -- : '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
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42 of 42 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Deaver finally gets back on form bringing his signature to this great and clever thriller, not quite Coffin Dancer the best thriller ever written and the only book that made me miss my underground stop. The twists are beautiful the villains almost too many to keep track of but very good anyway. The villain this time is a suspect called the Watchmaker who is obsessed with clocks and killing people very very slowly to make them suffer for a reason that becomes clear later on in the book. Just when you think you have solved it you can be sure you have not and that there is yet another twist/book around the corner to proove you have not. This is 1000 times better than the previous attempts recently and I STRONGLY RECOMMEND IT.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Having recently met with the author in person at a book signing, I remarked to him that the Cold Moon was the most preposterous book I had ever read - and, being a gentleman and a man of modesty, Deaver burst out laughing! I explained to him I meant it in a good way, which he kind of understood.
Anyway, back to the book. After the supremely disappointing Twelfth Card, Deaver is bang on form in this offering. He somehow manages to hold together a mulit-layered crime thriller, with the ever reliable Sachs & Rhyme heading up the task force to find the killer. Written in similar vein to the Vanished Man, with numerous twists and red herrings, Deaver brings about what can only be described as a fantastic plot, and at times, suspension of disbelief is hard to control. However, fans of Deaver expect the unbelievable, and this is what makes his novels, in the main, so thoroughly enjoyable.
Despite this, I actually believe Deaver is a far better writer when he turns his hand to subjects of seriousness - Garden of Beasts gives ample proof of that.
Finally, if any readers of this review get the opportunity, I would highly recommend going to see Deaver at one of his book signings - he is a most unassuming gentleman, and he spends as much time as he can with every person he goes to see him.
Anyway, back to the book. After the supremely disappointing Twelfth Card, Deaver is bang on form in this offering. He somehow manages to hold together a mulit-layered crime thriller, with the ever reliable Sachs & Rhyme heading up the task force to find the killer. Written in similar vein to the Vanished Man, with numerous twists and red herrings, Deaver brings about what can only be described as a fantastic plot, and at times, suspension of disbelief is hard to control. However, fans of Deaver expect the unbelievable, and this is what makes his novels, in the main, so thoroughly enjoyable.
Despite this, I actually believe Deaver is a far better writer when he turns his hand to subjects of seriousness - Garden of Beasts gives ample proof of that.
Finally, if any readers of this review get the opportunity, I would highly recommend going to see Deaver at one of his book signings - he is a most unassuming gentleman, and he spends as much time as he can with every person he goes to see him.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Those reviewers who have said that Deaver has been off form of late are not wrong. The storylines have been fairly uninspired and the relationship between his 2 main characters, paraplegic forensic genius lincoln Rhyme and his policewoman partner Amelia Sachs, had started to become stale.
With the cold moon we have a welcome return to the sort of form that Deavers fans have been waiting for.
Two people have suffered slow, painful deaths out in the cold snow covered streets of New York. What connects them is that both murders are meticulously planned to ensure as slow a death as possible and next to each victim a clock is left along with a piece of paper on which is written a poem.
Meanwhile elsewhere a wealthy buisnessman appears to have killed himself but all is not as it seems and his death begins to point to police corruption.
The 2 plotlines are well enough written and move along quite neatly but what sets this book apart from Deavers recent offerings is the changes that are rung. For the first time Rhyme & Sachs embark on 2 seperate cases, a new expert who specialises in human behaviour is introduced, a rookie cop introduced in the previous book has his development charted and the sometimes irritatingly smug and rude Rhyme is left rueing not listening to others and dismissing different, non forensic methods.
It's not in the same league as the blue nowhere or the empty chair but the cold moon is a welcome improvement and certainly an entertaining read. Hope you enjoy it.
With the cold moon we have a welcome return to the sort of form that Deavers fans have been waiting for.
Two people have suffered slow, painful deaths out in the cold snow covered streets of New York. What connects them is that both murders are meticulously planned to ensure as slow a death as possible and next to each victim a clock is left along with a piece of paper on which is written a poem.
Meanwhile elsewhere a wealthy buisnessman appears to have killed himself but all is not as it seems and his death begins to point to police corruption.
The 2 plotlines are well enough written and move along quite neatly but what sets this book apart from Deavers recent offerings is the changes that are rung. For the first time Rhyme & Sachs embark on 2 seperate cases, a new expert who specialises in human behaviour is introduced, a rookie cop introduced in the previous book has his development charted and the sometimes irritatingly smug and rude Rhyme is left rueing not listening to others and dismissing different, non forensic methods.
It's not in the same league as the blue nowhere or the empty chair but the cold moon is a welcome improvement and certainly an entertaining read. Hope you enjoy it.
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Too contrived
Wooden characters (unusually) and too contrived and unconvincing reality. Seem to have spent a lot of time reading about not-a-lot.
Published 8 days ago by Anzon
The Cold Moon
Once again another great book. This'll be another 5 star from me on the Lincoln Rhyme series.
Something I particularly liked about this book, without giving away any of... Read more
Something I particularly liked about this book, without giving away any of... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Duane
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Published 2 months ago by Athena
Disappointing deaver
I agree with the reviewers who have said that there are too many unbelievable twists in the book. The red herrings are a bit silly. Read more
Published 18 months ago by sandy72
An enjoyable thriller
An evil killer is murdering innocent people, and leaving a ticking clock at the scene of the crime. Rhyme and Sachs are on the case, trying to track down this ruthless killer,... Read more
Published 21 months ago by J.Flood
Twisty turny tastic
I always think of Lincoln Rhyme as Morgan Freeman, the paraplegic criminalist in Deaver's Kiss the Girls (I think!) and it works for me. Read more
Published on 11 Sep 2009 by Jo Bennie
Brilliant!
Probably one of the best Jeffery Deaver books I have read. It's up there with The Blue Nowhere and The Empty Chair. Every time you think you know whats going on, something changes. Read more
Published on 28 Jun 2009 by M. Walker
WOW!
This is the first book I have read by this guy and I LOVED it!
I hated the watchmaker.What a horribly fabulous creation he is! Read more
I hated the watchmaker.What a horribly fabulous creation he is! Read more
Published on 17 May 2009 by Suze
Less Detail And More Action Might Have Made The Cold Moon More...
I have been a huge fan of Deaver's books since The Bone Collector. However, despite repeated efforts to get into The Cold Moon, I had to give up on it only after a third of the way... Read more
Published on 20 Sep 2008 by bobbewig
Please Stop Crying Wolf!!
I was a huge fan of Jeffrey Deaver's character - Lincoln Rhyme, but find I am becoming increasingly 'fed-up' with the constant promise of a crucial mouthwatering revelation, only... Read more
Published on 19 Aug 2008 by S. Blankley
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