A Maiden's Grave - Jeffery Deaver

I realise that it might have come to your attention that I read a bit. Well, ok, I read a lot, but, er, I can handle it, could give it up any time etc etc. The thing is, I love to read a wide mix of stuff, but one genre I always seem to come back to is the crime thriller. And you might think that there is no problem in that. But there is. Because so much crime fiction in the bookshops today is formulaic, predictable, badly-written rubbish. I guarantee for every great crime novel out there, there are at least five mediocre ones that you will have to read to find it. However, the search is over, at least for a while, because Jeffrey Deaver is one of the ...

In a disused slaughterhouse at Crow Ridge, eight deaf girls and their teachers are held hostage by the ice-cold Killer Lou Handy. All they did was stop their schoolbus to help at a car crash on an isolated road. Now the game is on; Lou Handy has promised to kill one innocent child every hour, on the hour until they meet his demands... The Police, the FBI, media, politicians and the usual vultures swarm around- but bringing the hostages out alive doesn't seem to be everyone's priority. Jeffery Deaver sets the scene and a terrifying pace, never relinquishing his hold of the action. This is the novel that catapulted him into the big league and ...