Dead Ends
A devious collection of 12 short stories from the master of misdirection, featuring appearances from Lincoln Rhyme and Colter Shaw.
Amongst the dead ends …
A murder at a crime writers’ conference. The method is entirely literary, the motive seems obvious – but can the detective who was first on scene puzzle out what’s between the lines?
Amongst the misdirections …
An intelligence analyst has the chance to get out from behind the desk and do some real spy work. But as he enters the field, he begins to realise just how out of his depth he is …
Somewhere lies the truth.
A brilliant sleuth, obsessed with Sherlock Holmes’s mysteries, turns his attention to a serial killer targeting women in New York’s Central Park. But as his deductions bring him closer to his prey he starts to wonder who is doing the hunting …
Includes the following stories:
A Woman of Mystery
Forgotten, a Colter Shaw Story
Hard to Get
The Writers’ Conference
A Matter of Blood
An Acceptable Sacrifice
The Adventure of the Laughing Fisherman
A Significant Find
Where the Evidence Lies, a Lincoln Rhyme Story
Ninth and Nowhere
The Babysitter
Unlikely Partners (previously published as “Security”)
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Jeffery Deaver
Long before The Bone Collector introduced the calculating brilliance of Lincoln Rhyme to readers around the world, Jeffery Deaver was already quietly assembling the tools of his trade: a fascination with psychology, a sharp legal mind, and a love of music that taught him how to pace a story like a song, with rising tension, sudden drops, and crescendos that leave you breathless.
Born outside Chicago in 1950, Deaver’s path to becoming one of the most inventive voices in modern crime fiction wasn’t linear. He studied journalism, practiced law, and even considered a career in folk music before finding his stride in fiction. That varied background seeps into his novels, where legal nuance, technical precision, and psychological complexity collide in plots that are always one twist ahead of the reader.
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