THE CUTTING EDGE – Now Available In Paperback In The USA & Canada
Lincoln Rhyme returns to New York and a cat and mouse game in the murky world of the diamond trade. Now available as a trade paperback in the USA & Canada.
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Now, I not only feel I have a real grasp of his life — including the physical situation [my stepdad had Parkinson’s which may have sped along my ability to do this] - but also the different ways Lincoln and Amelia face their personal & their professional lives. I find it fascinating!
The only problem I have with your novels comes from how very much I enjoy your single novels, some of which are at the top of my list of favorite suspense novels of all time. This would include: A Maiden’s Grave, The Devils Teardrop, The Blue Nowhere. I thoroughly enjoy the others as well; I just haven’t placed them at the very top of that list. My theory (of which you are an anomaly) is that if I really, truly, fully enjoy a series that a particular author is writing, then the ratio of how much I enjoy the series is in proportion (generally) with how little I enjoy the individual novels written in-between. It doesn’t seem to make sense, in that I clearly enjoy the style of writing and the manner in which each of these writers works; nonetheless, this strangely holds true. For all but you and, actually, Agatha Christie, whom I don’t place in quite the same genre, but still and all, some of my absolute favorite books of hers are: They Came to Baghdad, So Many Steps to Nowhere, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Man in the Brown Suit.
This problem of which I speak is clearly done tongue in cheek bc as I’ve basically raved, I love your work. I bring it up in random conversations, you are clearly a recommendation I make to others (although I always, but always, make an effort to explain why it is that I DO love your books but it’s possible after reading the first Lincoln Rhyme. that the person won’t be able to get into a yellow cab for quite a while. Since I lived in Manhattan at the time, this was actually an issue. But I digress...)
Probably the most recommended book of yours, although your series will of course come up, is A Maiden’s Grave. For whatever reason, it became imprinted inside me, and I would feel lost if I hadn’t reread the book at least once or twice a year (making a total of bazillion times. I kid. Of course. But I’ve owned the book for close to twenty years (I believe) and reread it feverishly at first. Was disappointed to not find more Potter novels. But then again, Parker Kincaid was a ready-made model for a slew of novels, and I’m pretty certain he’s been referred to once, for a mere moment, during one of Lincoln’s cases. And it wasn’t really Arthur Potter that intrigued me. It was Melanie, Melanie’s family, and strangely enough, Lou Hardy. And of course, that basic belief that while they couldn’t communicate easily with one another, that Potter and Melanie were actually working together to make the situation end with as few fatalities as possible.
So, while I of course enjoyed The Cutting Edge (on my Kindle, actually) this was my UNBELIEVABLY LONG-WINDED way of thanking you for the enjoyment you’ve given me over (what I suddenly realized) was decades of time! So I both thank you and feel hideously ancient at one and the same time.