More twists and turns thank a twisty-turny thing... (The Empty Chair - Jeffery Deaver)

Member Name: geordieger

Product:	The Empty Chair - Jeffery Deaver
Date:	16/06/02 (90 review reads)
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Advantages: written by Deaver, The plot continues to twist and turn, You don't have to have read any of his books before to identify with the characters

Disadvantages: n/a

Being a fairly new reader of Jeffery Deaver, I was so impressed with "The Blue Nowhere" that I had to get more of his novels. Luckily my step-father had "The Empty Chair" sitting in his bookcase, so I started with this novel.

The winner of the 2001 W.H. Smith Thumping Good Read Award "The Empty Chair" is a continuation of "The Lincoln Rhyme" series of books.

The novel starts with Lincoln Rhyme attending the University of North Carolina Medical Centre for a pioneering operation to hopefully help the quadraplegic criminalist regain some of his movement.

With his aide, Thom, and his ever present sidekick, Sachs, Rhyme gets a request from a local police force to investigate the kidnapping of two young women and the murder of a young boy, which the local force believe was committed by a teenage orphan known locally as "the insect boy".

As with other Deaver novels, the plot twists and turns at an alarming pace. It seems that just when you have one piece of evidence digested another contradictory piece surfaces.

Although the book is 594 pages long(paperback), the chapters fly by as you are drawn into the world of the deep south, and into the criminalist's mind. I read the book in two days, hardly able to put the novel down. It grips you from the start, and takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride as the suspence intensifies.

For fans of a good thriller/suspence novel this is an absolute must. Deaver again manages to make the reader into an integral part of the story. This book is a fantastic thriller and makes emotions fly up and down, in an emotive piece of writing.

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