The Empty Chair: A totally heart-stopping crime thriller with a twist from the global bestseller
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'Outstanding! This series is so good! I thought that I had this one figured out, but not even close. The twists and turns just keep on going! Twists, on twists on twists... Can't wait for the next one' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
You've followed a killer into a swamp. Hopefully you'll find him before he gets to his next victims. But you'd better watch out - the Insect Boy doesn't need his own hands to kill . . .
Sick of his debilitating injuries, Lincoln Rhyme has travelled to a world-famous spinal cord injuries center in North Carolina for some risky, experimental surgery. It may make him a tiny bit better; it may kill him. But before he has a chance to undergo the operation, the local police department draft Rhyme and his partner Amelia into a shocking new case. Using their forensic skills the pair desperately try to track down two women kidnapped by a psychotic young man known locally as the Insect Boy.
After a cat-and-mouse game through the abandoned swamps of North Carolina, Lincoln and Amelia finally manage to find him - except suddenly Amelia, convinced of his innocence, breaks the boy out of jail. And it's left to Lincoln to find them both, while Amelia uses all the skills her mentor and lover has taught her to evade him.
But her actions are to have more disastrous consequences than either of them could anticipate . . .
Everyone is gripped by The Empty Chair:
'Another winner. The twists and turns this book took amazed me and kept me reading' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Okay wow. That was an incredibly wild ride... It just kept twisting right up until the very end... I'm extremely invested in these characters now. I NEED MORE' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Just when you think you've figured out all the twists, there's another. Fast paced and a great ride' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Thrilling in every sense of the word! Action packed from start to finish! I could never have guessed that ending' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Full of heart stopping thrills from beginning to end!' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Wow... Just wow... This book completely captured my attention, I took it everywhere with me so I could read it at any chance that I got. This is another brilliant novel written by the amazing Jeffery Deaver... I got it completely wrong as to what happened I thought that I had it all figured out and then it turns out that I knew nothing, it just took over my mind completely. The way he describes the crime scenes and the characters you can close your eyes and follow them, see what they see in your mind. I can't praise Jeffery Deaver enough another amazing novel!' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'The most creative, skilled and intriguing thriller writer in the world' Daily Telegraph
'Deaver is a masterful storyteller' Daily Express
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About the author
Jeffery Deaver is an international number-one bestselling author. His novels have appeared on bestseller lists around the world. His books are sold in 150 countries and translated into twenty-five languages. He has served two terms as president of Mystery Writers of America, and was recently named a Grand Master of MWA, whose ranks include Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, Mary Higgins Clark and Walter Mosely.
The author of more than forty novels, three collections of short stories and a nonfiction law book, and a lyricist of a country-western album, he's received or been shortlisted for dozens of awards.
His The Bodies Left Behind was named Novel of the Year by the International Thriller Writers association, and his Lincoln Rhyme thriller The Broken Window and a stand-alone, Edge, were also nominated for that prize. The Garden of Beasts won the Steel Dagger from the Crime Writers Association in England. He's also been nominated for eight Edgar Awards by the MWA.
Deaver has been honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention, the Strand Magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award and the Raymond Chandler Lifetime Achievement Award in Italy.
His book A Maiden's Grave was made into an HBO movie starring James Garner and Marlee Matlin, and his novel The Bone Collector was a feature release from Universal Pictures, starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. Lifetime aired an adaptation of his The Devil's Teardrop. NBC television recently aired the nine-episode prime-time series, Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector.
Visit his website, www.jefferydeaver.com, Facebook page, www.facebook.com/JefferyDeaver, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/JefferyDeaver.
