Jeffery Deaver
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May 06, 1950
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Jeffery Deaver was born outside of Chicago in 1950. His father was an advertising copywriter and his mother was a homemaker. Deaver worked as a magazine writer, then, to gain the background needed to become a legal correspondent for The New York Times or Wall Street Journal, he enrolled at Fordham Law School. In 1990 he started to write full time. Deaver has been nominated for six Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America, an Anthony award, a Gumshoe Award, and is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story of the Year. In 2001, he won the W.H. Smith Thumping Good Read Award for his Lincoln Rhyme novel The Empty Chair. In 2004, he was awarded the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain's Ian Flem...more
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The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1) by Jeffery Deaver avg rating 4.04 — 2,550 ratings — published 1997 36 editions |
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The Coffin Dancer (Lincoln Rhyme, #2) by Jeffery Deaver avg rating 3.94 — 1,432 ratings — published 1998 27 editions |
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The Vanished Man (Lincoln Rhyme, #5) by Jeffery Deaver avg rating 3.90 — 1,293 ratings — published 2003 22 editions |
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The Empty Chair (Lincoln Rhyme, #3) by Jeffery Deaver avg rating 3.83 — 1,185 ratings — published 2000 26 editions |
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The Stone Monkey (Lincoln Rhyme, #4) by Jeffery Deaver avg rating 3.75 — 1,087 ratings — published 2002 28 editions |
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The Cold Moon (Lincoln Rhyme, #7) by Jeffery Deaver avg rating 3.85 — 1,057 ratings — published 2006 27 editions |
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The Broken Window (Lincoln Rhyme, #8) by Jeffery Deaver avg rating 3.93 — 1,020 ratings — published 2008 21 editions |
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The Twelfth Card (Lincoln Rhyme, #6) by Jeffery Deaver avg rating 3.82 — 927 ratings — published 2005 23 editions |
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The Sleeping Doll (Kathryn Dance, #1) by Jeffery Deaver avg rating 3.73 — 912 ratings — published 2007 17 editions |
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The Blue Nowhere by Jeffery Deaver avg rating 3.85 — 860 ratings — published 2001 30 editions |
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