by vjbooks | Jul 3, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Jeffery Deaver recently learned that a novelist’s life can be fraught with peril. To lend credibility to the fictional blog he created in Roadside Crosses, he roamed the shoreline near Monterey, Califo., taking pictures to accompany the posts. During a beach...
by vjbooks | Jun 10, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
With two books in competition for the International Thriller Writers’ Best Thriller of the Year – The Broken Window and The Bodies Left Behind – it looks like the suspense-meister (Jeffery Deaver) has a 40% shot. (The other nominees are Harlan...
by vjbooks | Apr 28, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Jeffery Deaver’s “The Weapon,” about the limitations of torture, and Ridley Pearson’s “Boldt’s Broken Angel,” which features a race to prevent a cop’s death, provide solid bookends to this nifty all-original anthology, the sequel to 2006’s Thriller: Stories to Keep...
by vjbooks | Apr 18, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
In bestseller Deaver’s surprise-filled third Kathryn Dance novel (after The Sleeping Doll), Dance, an agent with the California Bureau of Investigation, gets an eye-opening education in some of the hottest areas of the cyberworld. After an auto accident kills...
by vjbooks | Mar 28, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways . . . not as memorials of past accidents, but as an announcement of his intention to kill. And to kill in a particularly horrific and efficient way: using the...
by vjbooks | Jan 19, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(newbernsj.com, Ken Gruebel, Jan. 10) I guess I have read about nearly every kind of detective that has lived and flourished on the fictional pages of all the many books that have passed in front of my eyes. Among them there have been detectives who go to AA meetings,...
by vjbooks | Jan 12, 2009 | Books to Movies, We're Talking Books!
Deaver wrote his first book — which consisted of two entire chapters — when he was eleven, and he’s been writing ever since. An award-winning poet and journalist, he has also written and performed his own songs around the country. After receiving a Bachelor of...
by vjbooks | Dec 30, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(www.news.com.au, Dec. 19, Paul Syvret) Jeffery Deaver is one of the most prolific and accomplished thriller writers in America today. He is best known for his Lincoln Rhyme books – a series about a brilliant (and quadriplegic) forensic criminalist who battles the...
by vjbooks | Dec 27, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(www.gazette.com, Dec. 19, Joy Harper) It’s coming – the big daddy of local literary events, the 2009 Pikes Peak Writers Conference (PPWC), April 23-26 at the Colorado Springs Marriott, 5580 Tech Center Drive. Why think about something happening in April?...
by vjbooks | Dec 4, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Dec. 1) Deaver talks about why so many lawyers become novelists: “For me, a thriller is a very carefully structured story. I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose. ...
by vjbooks | Nov 27, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(Excaliburonline, Nov 08, Shlomo Feldman) “I love my bad guys,” admits Jeffery Deaver at the International Festival of Authors’ (IFOA) “Psycho-Babble,” a discussion panel revolving around how crime authors get into the minds of their villains. The best-selling author...
by vjbooks | Nov 5, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
Taking a break from his Lincoln Rhyme mysteries, Jeffery Deaver’s The Bodies Left Behind is a stand-alone cat-and-mouse thriller. His mystery The Sleeping Doll is now in paperback. You can purchase a signed (hardcover) first edition of Sleeping Doll here. The...
