Jeffery Deaver

Jeffery Deaver NOT IAN FLEMING
Occupation	Writer
Genre	Mystery fiction, crime writer
Website
http://www.jefferydeaver.com/

Jeffery Deaver (born May 6, 1950) is an American mystery/crime writer. He originally started working as a journalist, but trained as a lawyer and later practiced law.

Life and career

Deaver was born in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Many of his books tend to promote lateral thinking, particularly his short story collection Twisted. One of his books, The Blue Nowhere, features criminal hackers (one using social engineering to commit murder), as well as a law enforcement computer crime unit. His most popular series features his regular character Lincoln Rhyme, a quadriplegic detective, and Amelia Sachs. According to a 2006 interview on The Early Show, Deaver stated that he would rotate between his new series and Lincoln Rhyme each year. Virtually all of his works feature a trick ending, or sometimes multiple trick endings.

Deaver edited The Best American Mystery Stories 2009.

Three of Deaver's novels have been produced into films:

• The Bone Collector (1999)
• A Maiden's Grave as the TV film Dead Silence (1997)
• The Devil's Teardrop (2010), also a TV film

Deaver also created the characters and - in a collaboration with 14 other noted writers - wrote the 17-part serial thriller The Chopin Manuscript narrated by Alfred Molina that was broadcast on Audible.com from September 25 to November 13, 2007.

Deaver will write the next James Bond novel. The novel, Carte Blanche, is set in the present era and will be published on 28 May 2011. He will be the second American author to write Bond novels, after Raymond Benson.

Bibliography

Standalone works

• Mistress of Justice (1992)
• The Lesson of Her Death (1993)
• Praying For Sleep (1994)
• A Maiden's Grave (1995)
• The Devil's Teardrop (1999)
• Speaking In Tongues (2000)
• The Blue Nowhere (2001)
• Garden of Beasts (2004)
• The Bodies Left Behind (2008)
• Edge (2010)

Rune Trilogy

• Manhattan Is My Beat (1988)
• Death of a Blue Movie Star (1990)
• Hard News (1991)

John Pellam

• Shallow Graves (1992)
• Bloody River Blues (1993)
• Hell's Kitchen (2001)

Lincoln Rhyme

• The Bone Collector (1997)
• The Coffin Dancer (1998)
• The Empty Chair (2000)
• The Stone Monkey (2002)
• The Vanished Man (2003)
• The Twelfth Card (2005)
• The Cold Moon (2006)
• The Broken Window (2008)
• The Burning Wire (2010)

Kathryn Dance

• The Sleeping Doll (2007)
• Roadside Crosses (2009)
• Interrogation (2013)

James Bond

• Carte Blanche (2011)

Collections

• A Confederacy of Crime (2001)
• Twisted (2003)
• More Twisted (2006)

External links

• Jeffery Deaver's Official Web Site
• Jeffery Deaver's Polish Web Site

Preceded by Sebastian Faulks 2008

James Bond writer 2011

Succeeded by TBA