A satisfying and challenging confrontation between a brilliant murderer and a brilliant detective, with several significant surprises. The interaction between Lincoln Rhymes and his assistant Amelia Sachs, and Sachs' role generally, added a human dimension that was always there but never overplayed. The fact that Rhymes is a quadriplegic is a reminder that even devastating life events do not necessarily mean the end of living. It's been a while since I read Deaver, but my memory suggests that he...

Overly long and a few twists to many. It is always nice to revisit Rhyme and Sachs, but this time that's the only really good part of the book.

With the introduction of one of the best characters that I have encountered in another Jeffery Deaver books; Kathryn Dance, a kinesics expert this book became more interested. As usual there were multitude of plot twists without any hint of how the story will end.

By far, Jeffery Deaver is the one author with that uncanny ability to develop plot twists and very complex characters that leave you stunned to the end. If you've seen the movie, trust me, the books are far more ingenious and developed as compared to what we were presented with on the silver screen. The Bone Collector is a series novel starring Lincoln Rhyme, our famous forensics expert bound to his bed and mobile wheelchair.Reading this novel I am reminded to never commit a crime. The art of fo...

A solid and reliable Rhyme novel with an above-average number of twists and turns, at an increasing pace. So you get to bask in the serial killer's blinding moonlight before the story runs away from you.

3 starsThis is my first Deaver, and therefore my first exposure to the Lincoln Rhyme universe. General opinion: rampant plot overkill. A villain far more likeable (and cheerable) than the heroes. Damn clunky writing in parts. But an engaging, complex plot that keeps you reading up to around page 400. After that...downhill slide. PlotToo many surprise turns and misdirections. Towards the end, it just got way too tedious and I was skimming through the last 30-40 pages, not really caring. That's n

My first Jeffery Deaver and I am not disappointed. The book has a wonderful plot with more twists and turns than a roller coaster. When you feel that the climax is near, you realise that only you have read only a third of the book and one-fourth is yet to be read. You find more twists in the plot. To reveal anything more is to give away the plot.I loved the character of Kathryn Dance the kinesics expert and her interrogation method which delves deep into the psyche of the criminal. Apart from he...

This is another great read by Jeffery Deaver. Quadriplegic ex-detective Lincoln Rhyme and his girlfriend/lover Detective Amelia Sachs are in for a roller coaster ride. This book has more layers than a wedding cake. It begins when there seems to be two murders in New York City. Rhyme is handling the case as a consultant to the police. Amelia Sachs is permanently assigned to work for him but she wants to broaden her horizons by being lead detective on a case of her own and not just do forensic wor...

Jeffrey Deaver returns with the awesome tag-team of Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs to face what may be their deadliest case yet.On a dark cold night in December 2 people in New York are found brutally murdered, the first of many victims of a serial killer calling himself The Watchmaker, whose calling card is a moon-faced clock ticking away the victims last moments on Earth. Quadriplegic Lincoln Rhyme is up against his deadliest foe ever, when Rhyme realizes the Watchmaker has more victims target...

What a mess.Jeffery Deaver is, for me, a hit or miss author. When he is good, he is great. When is is bad, his books are quite tedious. This one falls in the "bad" category."The Cold Moon" starts out just fine. There is a killer on the loose with a "time" theme -- The Watchmaker. Lincoln Rhyme is on that case. At the same time, Amelia Sachs has her own case, investigating police corruption. So far, so good.Readers of the series know that Deaver is fond of plot twists, and this book is no excepti...

I really enjoyed the seventh book in the Lincoln Rhyme series. This one also gives us a first look at a character that Deaver spins off into her own series, Kathryn Dance. We get to see the science side of things and also how Dance uses her expertise in kinesics, which is the science of body language, nonverbal gestures, postures and facial expressions. Dance works at the California Bureau of Investigation and gets pulled into this case via Lon Selitto who believes that Dance can help out Rhyme

The more I read this series the more I like. It is so much the story line, it is the character development and adding on to it to make it even better. The new addition is Kathryn Dance and I hope we see LOTS more of her!

Mixed feelings This started off as another fantastic story from Mr Deaver, and finished as one. But in between seemed to be very convulted. Probably didn't help that the copy I was reading had no line gaps when the scene changed. You would be reading about one set of characters in one sentence, then next paragraph was totally different set of characters but with no indication. Had to keep going back to get it to make sense. I have given 4*, based on what I believe it would have been if I had a d...

Just my second reading of the Lincoln Rhyme series and I did enjoy the book. It is highly detailed in the planning of crimes by a rather smart operator called the watchmaker and elaborately worked on by Rhyme and team. He adds a woman to his net that is gifted in reading communication of people and he also anticipates the loss of one of the members. We get radical terrorist plots, dirty cops and other crime puzzles to follow.Since I have enjoyed two of these I think I will "go all out" and pay t...

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 am reading backwards from the most recent book in this series. As I expected the arc about the Watchman begins in this book, and another multi-book arc is also explained in the book.The main story is about a serial killer who is leaving ticking clocks at his kills. He is killing in ways where the person dies a long and painful death while listening to the clock ticking his life down. He is accompanied by a man who enjoys raping the female victims.Lincoln Rhyme is brought in to help deal with t...

"The Cold Moon" is the seventh book featuring Lincoln Rhyme, one of Deaver's bread-and-butter characters. Normally, I don't jump into the middle--let alone the last third--of a series to test the waters, but I learned that Deaver pushes plot while dropping tidbits of character to orient the reader, whatever she has read before. This proved true here: though Rhyme and his cohorts have obviously been through a lot, Deaver offers pieces of their history at (for the most part) opportune moments to f...

Latest in the Lincoln Rime series, featuring the quadriplegic forensic investigator. Oh, Jeff. You were doing so well for the first 250 pages: the villain was thoroughly creepifying, the forensics were engaging and CSI-like, and the characters’ personal lives were actually interesting, too. And then we took a sharp left turn into exposition land, where the narrator takes over the story for five or ten pages at a stretch to explain that the villain really isn’t after what we thought (haven’t you

First I hated the narrator. Then the author tried to write a mix of noir with the latest non-verbal evaluation constantly spoiling the failing plot.

'The Cold Moon' is a meticulously put-together thriller. There are no plot holes or loose threads. Deaver's sure hand is evident when describing crime scenes and related investigations. The problem is very little here is attention-holding, maybe with the exception of the kinesics evaluator's character. Not once do the good guys appear to be in any real danger. There is some fun to be had in the sequences featuring the Watchmaker and his aide, but that comes to an end with the first plot twist. I...