[books 2011] The Bone Collector

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68. <b>The Bone Collector by Jeffrey Deaver</b>

More "I'm too sick to use my brain" reading.  

I was pleasantly surprised.  I've seen the film and think it's pretty good, but this is way better.  OK, it's a murder mystery that hinges on early Manhattan history and geography, so I'm hardly going to hate it, but it was better written than I expected.  There are some things about the style that annoyed me, but only small things.

I did like it, but not enough to keep it.  It's going to the charity shop unless any of you want it.

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I've yet to read a Jeffrey Deaver I didn't like (or one that felt ghostwritten or of lower-than-usual quality for that matter, unlike more than one other mass-market crime/thriller author). Not exactly high literature but it's good commuting reading.

However, he has his patterns. He's big on setting up an apparent danger situation, cutting somewhere else for the next chapter, then returning to the situation where you realise you were mislead. A written equivalent of the old-style cinema cliffhangers, where things are not as they appear. It's a bit of a cheat.