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Summary: By far Deaver's best.
Review: It's almost painful how fast this book reads, with its constant turns that keep you glued to the pages. You can't read fast enough. The new characters are very likeable with depth and style. This book reminds me why I love to read.
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Summary: 'The Coffin Dancer' by Jeffery Deaver
Review: The book follows Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs with their hunt for a serial killer known as the 'Coffin Dancer'. Rhyme uses his forensic knowledge and experience to get into the mind of a murderer. With Rhyme guiding her, Sachs is able to collect information and evidence that will eventually lead them to the killer. The book is full of surprises and has an excellent twist at the end. It keeps you really interested right from the start. It lets you heighten your imagination in many ways making it a brilliant read.
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Summary: Deaver's forensic based novels are contantly twisting
Review: I hated the movie the Bone Collector because I thought the ending was contrived and really nonessential. However, I may want to read the book and see how it was really led to. Coffin Dancer is now one of many "Lincoln Rhyme" novels I have read and I couldn't put it down. Deaver constantly is twisting the plot and story around so you can never tell what is going to happen. The forensic work done in the story is fascinating and I'm finally grateful for an author who doesn't write predictably.
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Summary: IF YOU ENJOYED "BONE COLLECTOR," DON'T MISS THIS ONE!
Review: This is the second book containing the characters, criminologist Lincoln Rhyme and Police Officer, Amelia Sachs. The characters are well developed and the plot is filled with fast-paced action. The characters appear to jump at you from the pages and possess a human emotional element that keeps the reader enthralled from the first chapter to the last. Hot on the trail of an illusive killer known as the Coffin Dancer, the novel is filled with twists and turns and passion on the side. Amelia and Lincoln, who is a qualraplegic, have a mutual respect and loyalty to each other in a professional manner. Amelia is the first person Lincoln sends to investigate a crime scene. In the Bone Collector, Amelia became intrigued with Lincoln's mind; in this novel, her personal feelngs for him increase as does her passion for his body. The Coffin Dancer weaves a frightening trail of death and destruction, keeping Rhymes and Sachs on their toes from the first page to the last. Written in a bold and captive style, this book is one of the best psychological thrillers on the bookshelves and highly recommended.
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Summary: Well...It's alright
Review: This book moves at break-neck speed, but it sacrafices detail and character development in the process. The "surprise ending" was not so "surprising", since I felt like I really didn't know the Coffin Dancer or what made him kill, even in the end. Not a bad read.
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Summary: Danse Macabre
Review: Fictional investigators do tend to be an unreal lot, but Lincoln Rhyme, the central figure of this book and previously of The Bone Collector, is something else again. Rhyme, a forensic expert paralyzed in an accident while collecting evidence, now has a fully fledged crime analysis lab including mass spectrometer in his bedroom and a stunningly beautiful redheaded cop - herself an ex-model, racing-car driver and expert marksman - working his crime scenes and chastely sharing his specially designed quadraplegic's bed - she's in love with his mind, you see. Rhyme also has pet falcons, a slavishly devoted and impeccably fashionably dressed male nurse ... scretary ... lab assistant, world forensic experts wandering in and out all day and friends on the police force bringing him interesting cases and intercepting bodies for him to examine. So honed is his expertise that a few grains of sand or dirt can place a perp at a particular city block. But if you can suspend belief, The Coffin Dancer is a really good read. The killer, known as the 'Dancer' from a macabre tattoo seen by his only surviving victim, is cool, devious, always several steps ahead of the investigation, and terrifying able to escape - or enter - anywhere. As he and Rhyme play mind games, the plot twists, turns, shocks and surprises till the very end. Many try, but nobody writes as excitingly as Jeffrey Deaver at his best. This is his best book, but don't miss The Devil's Teardrop either.
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Summary: Just A Fun Read
Review: Well, this book will not win any Literary Awards, but it sure was fun to read. It has lots of forensic science, plot twists and suspense. If you have read other Lincoln Rhyme novels, or Deaver books, this is just more of the same. If you have never read Deaver before, try him out.
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Summary: The best book ever
Review: This is the first book of Jeffery Deaver I have read but it was the best book I've ever read! You really HAVE TO read this book! Everytime you turn the paige you get surprised, it keeps happening things trough the whole book, and the end turns everything upsidedown. you have to think a lot while you're reading, but it's totally worth it!
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Summary: Deaver weaves a twisted plot
Review: Jeffery Deaver has weaved a plot that will shock and enthrall you. The plot catches your attention in the first chapter but then lets up. It gets less exciting to fully place the intricate puzzle that all comes together in the end. Some parts are hard to believe. Lincoln Rhyme, the main character, is a paralyzed criminalist and CSI, crime scene inverstigator. Since he is bound to his wheelchair, he focuses his concentration to analyzing evidence and out thinking the perpertrators. Some of his ploys are hard to swallow, but then again, I'm not limited to his world and concentration. At some parts, I wanted him to be wrong and others, vise versa. Nobody could guess this ending, and if they do, they have too much time on their hands. This is my favorite book, and I suggest that people who love twists to pick this up.
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Summary: terrifying
Review: My favorite book by Jeffrey Deavers yet. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are such great characters and I hope Mr. Deavers writes a fourth one about them soon. Of the three books (the other two being "The Bone Collector" and "The Empty Chair") about these two detectives is by far the most wonderfully frightening of these three books, and my favorite by him so far. It is also one of the best mysteries I have read in a very long time.
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