![]() ![]() ![]() What happens when a 60-year-old woman whose marriage has been loveless for years takes her granddaughter to the park and encounters a handsome, sensitive man watching his young grandson? (Quercus Books/Random House, 336 pages, $15.95.) I hope he hasn’t lost interest in his most intriguing characters.īy Hilary Boyd. This is Deaver’s 10th novel featuring Rhyme and Amelia, and I’ve loved all the others. While Rhyme is away, chasing Swann is left to Amelia, in the most interesting part of the book. He works to eliminate witnesses to the initial killing and put up roadblocks to the investigation. Maybe it was because Rhyme uncharacteristically leaves the country to personally pursue the shooter? This is Rhyme, who hates to leave his home we are supposed to believe he would pack up his caregiver and all the equipment he needs for daily life and get on a plane for another country? A secondary villain, Jacob Swann, is a more typical Rhyme adversary. This part of the plot relies heavily on technology, and the explanation can be dull. citizen is killed in the Bahamas, possibly by a U.S. Perhaps it was because the story was too political? Rhyme and Sachs are called in when an anti-American U.S. ![]() ![]() Jeffery Deaver, you disappoint! I eagerly anticipate each new novel featuring quadriplegic forensic investigator Lincoln Rhyme and his partner Amelia Sachs, but this one left me unimpressed. (Grand Central Publishing, 496 pages, $29.) ![]()
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