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Jeffery Deaver

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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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Average rating: 3.96 · 167,512 ratings · 9,293 reviews · 127 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1) 4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 48,305 ratings — published 1997 — 58 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Coffin Dancer (Lincoln Rhyme, #2) 4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 15,768 ratings — published 1998 — 47 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Empty Chair (Lincoln Rhyme, #3) 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 8,313 ratings — published 2000 — 46 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vanished Man (Lincoln Rhyme, #5) 4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 7,058 ratings — published 2003 — 43 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Broken Window (Lincoln Rhyme, #8) 4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 6,507 ratings — published 2008 — 38 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sleeping Doll (Kathryn Dance, #1) 3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 6,695 ratings — published 2007 — 43 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stone Monkey (Lincoln Rhyme, #4) 3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 6,367 ratings — published 2002 — 52 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Burning Wire (Lincoln Rhyme, #9) 3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 5,831 ratings — published 2010 — 38 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cold Moon (Lincoln Rhyme, #7) 3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 6,097 ratings — published 2006 — 58 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Twelfth Card (Lincoln Rhyme, #6) 3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 5,632 ratings — published 2005 — 40 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Lincoln Rhyme (11 books)
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Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness

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Quotes by Jeffery Deaver

“She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bodies Left Behind

tags: belief, foolishness, psychology, truth

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“Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

23 people liked it

“And life changes. Maybe just a little, maybe a lot. And at some point, it just isn't worth the fight to fix it.”
― Jeffery Deaver

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