As always, Deaver backs up his entertaining stories with great research.
Though the book was published 2008, it parallels what could happen in 2023 as hackers are winning the war against privacy.
… a killer has access to the world’s greatest data miner called Strategic Systems Datacorp. He is using detailed information to commit crimes and blame them on innocents.
Lincoln Rhyme, Amelia Sachs, and characters from the previous books, team up to stop the criminal.
Anthony Horowitz is an excellent murder mystery writer.
This one from 2016 is a bit of a sequel to the very popular The Magpie Murders.
Moonflower Murders (2020) finds Susan Ryeland broke, running a small hotel in Crete.
For ￡10,000 she’s convinced to fly home to England to investigate the disappearance of a woman from another hotel.
Why?
Because there are parallels between how Cecily disappeared and another novel that Ryeland had edited in the past.
It’s a story within a story.
In fact, if you read this book ➙ you read 2 books. The one based on the other.
The second is called …
Atticus Pünd Takes the Case
In the novel Pünd and his new secretary are hired to investigate the murder of Melissa James, a former actress turned wife and hotel owner. As with the case of Frank Parris, there are many potential killers who could have murdered Melissa such as her husband …
The upper looks good. And is not all that uncomfortable. It does require some concentration to speak clearly. And I do have to eat … differently.
The bottom is larger and much less comfortable. I’m hoping it gets better seated over time. The denturist made some adjustments after a couple of weeks. That has helped. Some.
I’ll go back again in 6 months.
My remaining REAL bottom teeth are in rough shape, as well. I’ll probably have to do something with them in the next couple of years.
One downside with dentures is that you must remove and clean them at night. Put them back in place in the morning.
The dragons of the story are portrayed as sapient and intelligent, capable of logical thought and human speech. The series centers primarily on events involving Temeraire (the titular dragon) and his handler, Will Laurence. …
I found the story refreshingly different. Historical fiction with dragons that speak perfectly on hatching. They learn language through the shell.
It turns out that Temeraire was to be a gift from the Chinese to Napoleon, his personal mount. But the British captured the egg from a French ship.
It also introduces CBI agent Kathryn Dance, who would later get her own series of books. She’s one of the nation’s leading experts in interrogation and kinesics—body language.
The brilliant bad guy in this book calls himself the Watchmaker.
This killer’s obsession with time drives him to plan the murders with the precision of fine timepieces, and the victims die prolonged deaths while an eerie clock ticks away their last minutes on earth.
Lincoln Rhyme, Amelia Sachs, and the rest of the crew are tapped to handle the case and stop the Watchmaker and his partner, Vincent Reynolds, a repulsive character with a special interest in the female victims of the killer. …
Rick McCharles 