The Broken Window: a novel

✍ Scribed by Jeffery Deaver

• Publisher: Pocket Star
• Year: 2008;2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 303 KB
• Edition: 1st Pocket Star books pbk. ed
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1416588647

✦ Synopsis

From Publishers Weekly

Dennis Boutsikaris's reading of Deaver's latest Lincoln Rhyme thriller is positively chilling. When the quadriplegic detective's cousin is arrested for murder, it seems to be an open-and-shut case, as plenty of forensic evidence links him to the crime. But Lincoln discovers that the real killer is framing others for his killings by manipulating intimate computer information. A deadly game of cat and mouse pits Lincoln; his partner, Amanda Sachs; and the rest of his NYPD crew against an adversary who is consistently one step ahead of them. Boutsikaris's reading is excellent, but he really ratchets the intensity when performing the passages told from the killer's point of view. His delivery fully embraces the cold, calculating mind of the murderer, imbuing his seemingly dispassionate thoughts with an underlying sense of barely controlled rage and menace. A Simon & Schuster hardcover (Reviews, Apr. 14). (July)
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From Booklist

As the Lincoln Rhyme series rolls along, the quadriplegic criminalists cases keep getting more and more elaborate. The Cold Moon (2006) was extremely intricate, but this one tops it. Lincolns cousin has been arrested for murder. The case seems airtight, but when he looks into it, Rhyme begins to suspect that he has stumbled onto an especially devious serial killer, one who uses cutting-edge data-mining techniques to steal the identities of his victims and of the innocent people he frames for his crimes. Rhyme is perhaps the best and smartest investigator in the game, but how do you catch a killer when you dont know anything about him? If a large part of writing a mystery is like making a puzzle, then Deaver may just be the cleverest puzzle maker in the business. He has built his reputation on the strength of well-drawn characters; hyperrealistic dialogue (you dont read it, you hear it); and right-angle plot twists that are impossible to predict. There is no one quite like Deaveror like Lincoln Rhyme. --David Pitt