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Summary: An excellent book!
Review: This book is a 5 star book. "The Coffin Dancer" is the second novel in this series featuring Lincoln Rhyme and his gorgeous assistant Amelia Sachs. This book follows after the "Bone Collector". The book centers on Lincoln Rhyme, a disabled forensic "detective" and his battle of the wits with a hired killer, the "Coffin Dancer". Time is critical as two witnesses need to be kept alive over the weekend so they can testify against a known felon. However this is no typical killer, once you hire him you cannot change your mind. He will kill the targets at all costs... unless he can be stopped. The book is a fast paced novel that sucks you in and keeps you there. Deaver works in lots of details about forensics, and makes the art of the science very appealing. Over all I thought this was one of the better books I've read in years and would recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: Dog, cat , mouse, cat, mouse, falcon
Review: This author creates delightful characters and puts them in intriguing situations. This story is a prolonged cat and mouse tale with the occasional dog being thrown in as a twist. It does become tedious about half way through when you realize that the entire book is to be about the back and forth of the detective and the assassin. It is a tribute to Deaver's ability to produce characters who matter to the reader that I hung in to the end. The ending was good, but not worth the wait. Still, a good yarn in spite of its dragging in places.
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Summary: Still Deaver at his best.
Review: In my opinion there are 2 great modern thriller Writers James Patterson being one and Jeffrey Deaver being the second. Deaver has rarely moved away from his original quad hero played expertly by Denzel Washington in Bone Collector. This book however is a real triumph even over the brilliant Bone Collector from the breathtaking opening scene of a crashed plane to the final scene that would give old Hannibal a run for his money. This book is pure golden text with extreme suspense and brilliant characters again. Cant wait to finish Vanished Man.
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Summary: As Good As It Gets!
Review: Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs, a truly inspired pairing if there ever was one, return in a thriller that never stops thrilling. It seems that one of the cagiest and deadliest serial killers of all time, nicknamed the Coffin Dancer because of a distinctive and chilling tattoo on his arm, is on the loose once more. Rhyme, the brilliant criminalist who is now a quadriplegic, has had run-ins with "The Dancer" before--and it's one of the very few times in his career that the perp has won. And managed to take a few of Rhyme's cherished colleagues with him. So Rhyme, surrounded by his lab-within-a-home and the highest-of-the-highest high-tech equipment, begins a deadly game of wits that may end not only in his own death, but that of his partner, gorgeous redheaded cop Amelia Sachs. Speaking of Sachs...just what is going on in her supposedly professional relationship with Rhyme? And why does she hate the woman she and Rhyme are trying to protect? From the dankest of unused subway tunnels under Manhattan, to a sleek and sexy Lear Jet, to a series of FBI-run safe houses, the chess game between Rhyme and the Dancer continues with agonizing suspense. Is it checkmate at the end of the book? Read it and see!
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Summary: Licoln Rhyme strickes again
Review: "The coffin dancer" is the second book in the Lincoln Rhyme/Amelia Sachs series (the first one was "The bone collector"). Once again, Lincoln and his team of criminalists are trying to stop a killer. This time, the killer is the rental hitman with the same name of the title of the book, whose job is to kill three witnesses in a federal case. As in the previous book in the series, Deaver is able to write a fast-paced and engaging thriller. I like to think Rhyme is sort of a modern Sherlock Holmes, using every bit and tiny piece of evidence, helped by state of the art, ultimate technology parafernalia to stay every time one step ahead of the killer. Lincoln Rhyme is an almost flawless genious. Deaver's way to bring his character down to earth is to have made him a quadriplegic. This disability and his strong genious make Rhyme un unforgettable character for the readers who like good thrillers. Also, Deaver likes to get in the psychological side of his characters. Everybody in the book is tormented by some factor or other in his/her past life, and they have to deal with that during the story. Like "The bone collector", this second book is full of plot twists and sudden happenings, some more plausible than others. Also like its predecessor, "The coffin dancer" has an ending that didn't leave me pleased, it seemed too unbelievable and without reason to be. But, aside from that, this book states that Jeff Deaver is one of the top thriller/forensic writers of today. (Another thing that caught my attention is that the author puts a lot of initials in the story, but he always gives their meaning in the following paragraph, showing he wants the reader to understand what he's writing about). Grade 8.7/10
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Summary: Excellent finish
Review: As all the books that I have read from Jeffery Deaver, I found a big mistake in the book, but in this book were two big mistakes, that mistakes are enough to take out a star. The mistakes that I found are: 1) The plane that explode with Edward (the husband of Percey) on board has half million dollars in human organs (that is on the first chapter, so I am not telling you anything about the story), has a bomb and everybody knew it after the accident and the hospital gives a second chance to Percey to transport more human organs three days after, I really think that the hospital should try another airline with out bombs don't you? 2) In another scene crime Lincoln Rhyme found some sand from (I won't tell you because you will know the story) in a car of an FBI agent that was kidnapped, if you go to a beach outside NY and you return to kidnap someone, at least you change your clothes don't you? This two mistakes take down a star, nevertheless, the end of the book is one of the best I ever read, that end gives the book five stars again.
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Summary: Nail-biting suspense with great characters to boot
Review: This is the second in the Lincoln Rhymes and Amelia Sachs series (the first being "The Bone Collector" which was made into a movie with Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie). Rhymes, criminologist extraordinaire, is once again under the clock to hunt down the hired killer also known as "The Coffin Dancer" because of a strangely morbid tatoo on his arm. He's already claimed one of his 3 targets and Rhymes, Sachs, and the rest of the team have 45 hours to find him before he can succeed in killing the others. This has a great main character in Rhymes (quadriplegic solving cases from his bed and wheelchair with spittle on his chin, but still somehow the sexiest male character ever?), intriguing female lead (bull-headed, aware but unimpressed by her own beauty, slight self-destructive edge), and a nail-biting storyline. I'm looking forward to #3 in the series.
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Summary: A young reader
Review: I'm ahead of my time with readings, i never liked the teenie bobber books, and after seeing the bone collector, i had to read the book. I was amazed with Jeffery deaver's writings, and I was beyond happy To find that he had a series (sadly enough, i can read well, but i cant spell to save my life) for licon rhyme. I have no words to express how I feel about the coffin dancer, except it was even better than the bone collector, and I suggest everyone that likes suspense, twists and turns, and mystery to read this book
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Summary: Instantly hooked
Review: This is a fast-paced thriller with twists and turns that moves quickly from scene to scene without losing substance along the way, the downside of many books written in this format. Jeffrey Deaver has successfully blended intricate plotting with characterization. Lincoln Rhyme and his protegé, Amelia Sachs, are thoroughly engaging characters. The forensic details fascinated me, knowing too little about forensics to question plausibility. I agree with one reviewer's comments about the number of people who died all to protect a self-centred woman unconcerned with the lives she put at risk, and I could not drum up sympathy for this character. Other than that, a great way to escape for a few hours. The twist at the end was an unexpected bonus.
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Summary: Worth reading
Review: I decided to buy and read "The Coffin Dancer" because I read a customer review of a Harlan Coben novel that said Jeffery Deaver's stuff is better. I was not disappointed, and I have to agree that, on the basis of "The Coffin Dancer," Deaver is a better choice than Coben. In "The Coffin Dancer,", quadriplegic former police detective (now consultant), Lincoln Rhyme and his beautiful protege, Amelia Sachs, battle to protect three witnesses to alleged crimes by a multimillionaire from professional hits by an assassin known to them, because of a bizarre tattoo, only as the Coffin Dancer. The Dancer always seems to stay a step ahead of Rhyme and Sachs, at least until the dramatic and exciting conclusion. It should be understood that this was the first of Deaver's books that I have read. Based on that limited exposure, I have no hesitation in recommending "The Coffin Dancer." The plot twists and turns, the characters are mostly believable, and the suspense builds to the very end. Sure, the story is contrived, but what suspense novel designed to keep the reader guessing is not? And sure the book was probably written with a movie screenplay in mind. Why not? The sale of the movie rights to "The Bone Collector" (a successful and entertaining movie) probably enlarged Deaver's account substantially. I thoroughly enjoyed reading "The Coffin Dancer" and look forward to reading other Deaver novels in the future.
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