Mystery Book: The Cold Moon: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel Reviews
The Cold Moon: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel
Description: On a freezing December night, with a full moon hovering in the black sky over New York City, two people are brutally murdered – the death scenes marked by eerie, matching calling cards: moon-faced clocks ticking away investi-tigators fear the victims’ last moments on earth. Renowned criminologist Lincoln Rhyme immediately identifies the clock distributor & has been in the chilling realization that the killer – who has dubbed himself the Watchmaker – more murders planned in the hours, is.
Rhyme, a quadriplegic long confined into his wheelchair, immediately taps his trusted partner & longtime love, Amelia Sachs, into walk the fence, & his eyes & ears on the street. But Sachs other commitments at present – namely, her first assignment as lead detective on a murder has of his own. When she provocatively into their pursuit of the elusive Watchmaker wrestles with her own case, balance, digs Sachs shocking revelations about the police, which threaten into undermine her career, into rhyme their self-esteem & their relationship. As the Rhyme-Sachs team shows evi-dence of fissures, the Watchmaker is methodically stalking his victims, & planning a diabolical criminal masterwork …. In fact, the watchmaker, the cunning & mesmerizing villain Rhyme & Sachs have ever encountered.
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Secret Prey (Lucas Davenport, No. 9)
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as a wealthy banker is shot in a hunting trip, Lucas Davenport, Sandford murder.John suspect is back with his dapper, dangerous Minneapolis Deputy Police Chief Lucas Davenport for a ninth “Preyer” meeting. Fans of the series will be pleased into hear that it is full of tension & trigger smart, & explosive action is. Davenport & his fellow cops are still recovering from the deadly revenge scheme that, in Sudden Prey , which ended the relationship between Lucas & his doctor girlfriend seems into have mutilated. This accounts for the depression that dogs him as he is sent into the killing of top banking executive Daniel Kresge in a Hunting Lodge investigate north of Minneapolis. Each of the four boys Kresge hunters – all employees on his Polaris Bank – could have shot him, & all had motives, as his ex-wife almost. About the middle of the book we find out who the real murderer is, has only a few pages before Lucas, & that villain is a masterful creation, an for example of the banality of evil worthy of Hannah Arendt. It’s nice when Sandford start sanded into create’s abilities voltage correctly: He keeps us as Davenport fascinated by a jaunty affair with a colleague, revitalized, trying into turn what we all know, in hard evidence. – Dick Adler
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August 28th, 2010 at 8:16 pm
Review by Robert Busko for The Cold Moon: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel
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Jeffery Deaver’s newest story The Cold Moon feels a lot like his first Lincoln Rhyme novel The Bone Collector. Both stories deal with serial killers that have a taste for slow and unique deaths of their victims. Both killers like to bait the police and leave unique clues. I loved The Cold Moon for the same reason I became a hooked Deaver reader after The Bone Collector….Deaver delivers your monies worth with each page. He is like no other writer today.
In The Cold Moon Amelia Sachs, Rhyme’s key investigator, and Rhyme must match wits with the Watchmaker, a killer that leaves a clock with each victim. In the course of the investigation, we discover that the killer purchased ten clocks leading the investigators to conclude that there is to be ten victims, not a pleasant thought given the killer’s taste for suffering.
Deaver gives us more information about Amelia’s history adding depth to her character. He also introduces Kathry Dance an investigator from the California Bureau of Investigation. Kathryn can smell a lie before you tell it. Deaver is a master storyteller who manages to deliver one twist after another and paces The Cold Moon with the reader in mind. I was surprised in the end…..
Chalk up another hit for Deaver.
August 28th, 2010 at 9:02 pm
Review by Henry W. Wagner for The Cold Moon: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel
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In their seventh adventure, Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs square off against a criminal who calls himself “The Watchmaker,” a master assassin who gives new meaning to the phrase “a riddle wrapped up in an enigma”–you’ll spend a lot of time trying to figure out what his game is, but to no avail. That’s because The Cold Moon is quintessential Deaver–just when you’re patting yourself on the back for having figured everything out, the author, through literary sleight of hand, throws you one of his trademark curveballs, keeping his heroes and his readers in a constant state of confusion and agitation right up until the very last pages of this swift paced and surprising thriller. Although this is what Deaver has become famous for, he seems to be having more fun than usual with the canny and devious Watchmaker, an observation borne out by the unusual ending the author provides.
Another character in The Cold Moon who seems to have found her way into Deaver’s heart is consultant Kathryn Dance, the human lie detector who plays a key role in helping Rhyme and company frustrate the machinations of the Watchmaker. Dance, who works with the California Bureau of Investigation, is an expert in the field of kinesics, the science of body language, nonverbal gestures, postures and facial expressions by which a person manifests various physical, mental or emotional states, and communicates nonverbally with others. Deaver has told Mystery Scene magazine that he’s already hard at work on a stand alone novel featuring Dance, tentatively titled The Sleeping Doll. If her solo adventure proves half as interesting and involving as the one she just shared with Lincoln Rhyme, readers should reserve their copies now.
August 28th, 2010 at 9:59 pm
Review by Derek for The Cold Moon: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel
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I’m a huge fan of the Rhyme series and have enjoyed every book so far, rating each one at least four stars. However, I just can’t do it for this one. My issue with this book was that all of the typical Deaver plot twists and turns and the “I didn’t see that coming” occurrences were all packed into the last 1/4 of the book. In all of the other Rhyme books, there are twists throughout that keep you glued to it and turning the pages, but in The Cold Moon they just aren’t there until the last stretch. Then, once you do get to the surprises, they stretch belief almost to it’s breaking point.
If you’re a Deaver fan, you have to read this book of course because it is the first to feature Kathryn Dance, the main character of his new series (the second book of the Dance series comes out in June 2007), who is presumably going to be taking the place of Lincoln Rhyme as the main protagonist in Deaver’s books.
It isn’t the best of the Rhyme books, and it hurts to only give it three stars being such a loyal Deaver fan, but it’s was the low point in all of the Rhyme books in my eyes.
August 28th, 2010 at 10:55 pm
Review by Orion1 for The Cold Moon: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel
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I’ve been following the Lincoln Rhyme series ever since “Bone Collector” and this is another great addition. One of the best things about all of Deaver’s novels is the character development. Each of the characters is distinct and memorable (good or bad).
The villain this time is a serial killer named the Watchmaker. I can’t really say more than that without giving away the extremely complicated plot… and with that I have to say that this isn’t Deaver’s best work simply because the plot is too complicated. Twists and turns are his trademark, but this got so complicated I had a hard time following. Nonetheless, a great read.
August 28th, 2010 at 11:08 pm
Review by Dave Schwinghammer for The Cold Moon: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel
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In one respect COLD MOON does what a good mystery should: the villain, The Watchmaker, an apparent serial killer, is every bit as clever as forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme. On another level, COLD MOON reads like one of those “B” movie serials they used to make during the forties, where the good guy gets into a bar fight and never loses his hat. Jeffery Deaver will do anything, and I do mean anything, to prevent his mysteries from becoming predictable. But there’s such a thing as author intrusion, where we can see Deaver tampering with a logical turn of events. Eventually this sort of thing strains credulity.
You could say Deaver is a formulae writer. He loves those forensic lists, that a compulsive reader like myself, just has to read, but they seldom add anything new, and I was tempted to skip them. Deaver also borrows a page from Ed McBain, running two cases simultaneously. Amelia Sachs is in charge of a homicide investigation that sometimes conflicts with Lincoln’s Watchmaker cases. Tension ensues.
There’s a new member of Rhyme’s team as well. Kathryn Dance, kinesics expert. Kinesics is “the science of observing and analyzing body language and verbal behavior of witnesses and suspects.” She’s almost as good at what she does as Lincoln is at forensics, a little too good to be believable. Up until he pulls one of his switches, Deaver seems to be trying to say something about time, how it speeds up when you’re having fun and slows down when you’re miserable. The watchmaker leaves a clock at each of his crime scenes to emphasize the point. Deaver drops the time angle the first time he’s tempted to pull one of his patented twists; then there’s the crooked cop angle. There are a bunch of them in COLD MOON, including Amelia’s father and her ex-fiancé. When she finds out about her father, she’s so crushed she decides to leave the force. Will Amelia break up the greatest crime-fighting team since Sherlock and Watson?
I’ve read all of the Lincoln Rhyme mysteries, and I obviously enjoy them or I wouldn’t keep coming back for more, but I’ve always had a hard time with Deaver’s twists. At one point in COLD MOON, after Rhyme had once again foiled The Watchmaker, Deaver explains how Rhyme managed to ignore one of the Watchmaker’s diversions, an attempt to steal something called the Delphic Mechanism, a fancy clock the Watchmaker would have killed for. Essentially he says that The Watchmaker was too smart to leave so many clues, so he kept on looking until he found what the Watchmaker was really after. Convenient, very convenient.
August 29th, 2010 at 12:00 am
Review by Terry Mathews for Secret Prey (Lucas Davenport, No 9)
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I’m new to John Sanford, but I read two previous books before starting “Secret Prey.” I thought it might be nice to know a little bit of the hero’s history. The two books I read were pretty brutal and graphic, but I liked Lucas Davenport.I read “Secret Prey” in one day…and I enjoyed it. I thought the plot moved right along and I liked the little side trip the author took with the silver-haired opium club.I look forward to other Lucas Davenport stories…and I like him with the lady cop much better than I liked him with the lady surgeon. The lady cop understands the nature of his work and she doesn’t take anything from him that she doesn’t give right back, in spades. There’s more fire and vinegar in this relationship and I thought it really rang true.”Secret Prey” is a great summer book…..
August 29th, 2010 at 12:59 am
Review by Louise for Secret Prey (Lucas Davenport, No 9)
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Lucas Davenport is called to the scene of what seems like a hunting accident. A wealthy banker has been shot dead during the first minutes of the company’s yearly hunting trip. An accident? No. Nobody really believe it was an accident, a lot of people had reasons for killing the man. As Davenport starts digging into the backgrounds and lives of the suspects, he unveils more secrets, and it soon becomes very confusing. He knows he is on to something, but it keeps slipping his mind. He finds himself thrown off track numerous times, for one reason or the other, as well as he has to deal with a new girlfriend and the memories of the old girlfriend, whom he was going to marry. In the end, everything leads him towards the real killer, who does not stop killing only one person. A great Lucas Davenport mystery.
August 29th, 2010 at 1:45 am
Review by J. Stoner for Secret Prey (Lucas Davenport, No 9)
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In a series of books all based around the same police officer I would’ve thought that by now the books would’ve become extremely repetitive and similar. I would think that every book would follow the same format, with different names and methods of killing. However, thus far I have not been disappointed (outside of a very small number of instances).
This book takes a totally different approach to Lucas Davenport’s case files. This book starts out with the investigation of a single murder. Most of the books so far have been about serial killers or multiple homicides. Multiple murders is one way to keep the action level in a book up. This book focuses more on the complex relationships of those close to the victim. The group of people is all top executives at a major bank. The psychology of the characters is what makes this book interesting. We also see Davenport drifting back into depression at the beginning of this book.
When the killer gets revealed and tries to stay innocent-looking a few more murders pop-up. There are also some more murders in the past that come to light and the investigation into those take Davenport into some interesting situations.
The slower pace of this book is definitely refreshing. I think it adds an element to this series that make the series as a whole more credible because it is not trying to sell books on the same old formulae.
This book gets the full five stars, and not for the same reasons I gave “Sudden Prey” and “Eyes of Prey.”
August 29th, 2010 at 2:41 am
Review by John Harrison (jehslh101@aol.com for Secret Prey (Lucas Davenport, No 9)
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This man can write. He knows people. He knows business, and he has used all of this to write an utterly facinating book–again. Sandford’s books’ strength has always been his people and his sense of place. This time he has added characters, that still read like real people, but now some of them have varying levels, but always accurate, insider knowledge about the arcane world of business. This all by itself is a tour de force. Read this book, you will like it.
August 29th, 2010 at 3:36 am
Review by Mark Laflamme for Secret Prey (Lucas Davenport, No 9)
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Sandford is our generation’s master of the crime novel. Read one of the Prey novels, you’ll want to read them all. Lucas Davenport is a beautifully flawed good guy with a streak of badness about him. Sandford weaves his stories flawlessly and hauls you along like a fish on a line until the very last page.
– Mark LaFlamme, author of “The Pink Room.”