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#7 in the Lincoln Rhyme suspense/police procedural series also features the character of Kathryn Dance. The book is a very good thriller with more than its share of twists. The twists are sure to keep the reader entertained. Just when you feel you have it figured, the antagonists will bring you in a completely different direction.
The protagonists feature Lincoln and his usual cast of characters. Mr. Deaver has spent time with his protagonists and he has their personalities developed very well. There are a number of protagonists; the main one being the "Watchmaker."

It would be somewhat difficult to describe the "Watchmaker's psychotic storyline without introducing some spoilers. So, I'll not go there. I will say the novel is well worth your time.

I went with 4 instead of 5 stars. While the entire novel, I felt, was gripping and a real page turner, the end left me flat. Coming toward the end, I thought the story went a bit "over the top ." I found it too abrupt for an excellently written plot which proceeds it.


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The Cold Moon A Lincoln Rhyme Novel Jeffery Deaver 9780743296786 Books Reviews

Jeffrey Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme novels are about serial killers and the policemen who capture them. The hero is a former New York crime scene investigator, who quit the police department after an accident made him a full-body paraplegic (quadriplegic). Do not worry that his paralysis makes him boring. He is now a contract CSI detective for the N.Y.P.D., analyzing evidence with computers, chemicals, and equipment like gas chromatographs. He is the brainy half of a two-part hero. The other half is Amelia Sachs. This sharpshooting redhead and her fellow policemen compliment Rhyme's brains with action.

"The Cold Moon" has excellent characters, described with concrete imagery. A few receive deep profiles. For example, the villain who is a big fat junk-food gobbling compulsive rapist. And the rapist's boss a kind of supervillain called the Watchmaker. He's a meticulous perfectionist who manipulates crime scenes and has backup plans for his backup plans, leaving behind a school of red herrings to divert fishermen like Lincoln Rhyme. The Watchmaker is a genius, but so is Rhyme.

"The Cold Moon" has a new good guy, with whom I was especially pleased. This is Kathryn Dance, an agent of the CBI (California Bureau of Investigation), visiting New York to conduct a seminar. Just as the Watchmaker is not literally a supervillain--he has no superpowers--Dance is not literally a superhero. But she is like a superhero, with her advanced skills in kinesics. (The study of body language and verbal behavior in witnesses and suspects.) It's like she has telepathy. While reading "The Cold Moon," I learned that Deaver has written two subsequent novels starring Kathryn Dance ("The Sleeping Doll" and "Roadside Crosses"). I bought them.

Deaver's forte in the Lincoln Rhyme novels is his display of criminalistics, the scientific analysis of crime scene evidence. For this reason, even if his characterizations were flat and his prose amateurish--though actually they are just the opposite--these books would be interesting. Also, at least in "The Cold Moon," his plot has more twists and turns than the cables behind my PC. And the pace of narration is fast, especially with the formatting in the tall paperback (7.5" x 4.25", 656 pages, Pocket Star Books, ISBN-13 978-0743491570, $9.99 U.S.). Slow reader that I am, I got through a hundred and fifty pages per day. I felt smart!

I do, however, advise moderation while reading these books. Though each one has something new, each one also has too much resembling preceding volumes. If you impulsively decide to read them all consecutively, you will get too much of a feeling that you are reading the same book over and over. I recommend reading them, but I strongly recommend allowing at least a couple of months to pass between each volume. Read other books during the interim.
Love Jeffery Deaver, but this book was a bit of a chore to get through. The story went all over the place, and I got bogged down in the details between/among the various plot lines. Then throw in some personal dilemmas for the main characters, and it was a slog. Plus, the main villain is not caught, so we know there will be a sequel...
Dealer does it again. This one had me sucked in from the beginning. I was following along the story line, pleased to see how it was going and waiting to see how the author would tidy everything up. Suddenly WHAM!!! Out of left field Deaver throws a monkey wrench into the clockworks and all goes flying. Nothing is as it seems and the whole story takes on a new twist. Really enjoyed this one.
One star removed for the jaw-clenching repetition of the word "now." Halfway through the book, I was clenching my teeth (sometimes it showed up three times on a page!). By the end I was cringing every time I saw it.

Other than that, and some other minor editing misses, I thoroughly enjoyed the story, which was wonderfully complex and layered. The Watchmaker is a terrific villain. If I could be assured the "now" problem was solved, I'd pick up the next book with this character in it.
Twisting. Classic Deaver compelling, easy to follow and difficult to put down.

No graphic brutality or drag-you-down drama.
Interesting storyline with plenty of twists to keep the reader guessing.

Believable characters with distinct personalities. Thought-provoking dialogue.

I will re-read this story and always look forward to works by this author.
I've read all of the Lincoln Rhyme novels, except the Steel Kiss, but to me the formula has become stale. We have seen it all before twists and turns till you get seasick and a lot of developments which are not exactly plausible. In this genre, unlikely events come with the turf, a bit, but in this novel it's worse than in some (but not all) of the other Deaver novels. Positive points are the character of the Watchmaker, who is quite scary and convincing, and the introduction of Kathryn Dance as kinesics expert. I enjoyed this book more than the previous one, The Twelfth Card (which was quite ludicrous, frankly), but I think I 'm done with the series, for the time being.
#7 in the Lincoln Rhyme suspense/police procedural series also features the character of Kathryn Dance. The book is a very good thriller with more than its share of twists. The twists are sure to keep the reader entertained. Just when you feel you have it figured, the antagonists will bring you in a completely different direction.
The protagonists feature Lincoln and his usual cast of characters. Mr. Deaver has spent time with his protagonists and he has their personalities developed very well. There are a number of protagonists; the main one being the "Watchmaker."

It would be somewhat difficult to describe the "Watchmaker's psychotic storyline without introducing some spoilers. So, I'll not go there. I will say the novel is well worth your time.

I went with 4 instead of 5 stars. While the entire novel, I felt, was gripping and a real page turner, the end left me flat. Coming toward the end, I thought the story went a bit "over the top ." I found it too abrupt for an excellently written plot which proceeds it.