The Coffin Dancer (1998)

I never really liked series. I do not know why I thought this book would be any different. I didn’t read the entire thing. All I know is “The Coffin Dancer” follows the same characters as “The Bone Collector”. This time they are back to solve the case of a bomb attached to a commercial airplane carrying medical equipment that killed two people. The murder in which the police call the “Coffin Dancer” (hence the title) is attempting to kill two other people. I honestly don’t remember why. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs have to stop him before he succeeds in doing this.

To be honest I don’t know why I dropped this. Maybe because it was I could get the same thrill that this book delivers from an episode of “NCIS”. Maybe because this book focuses more on Amelia and Lincoln’s personal life (at least thats how I felt) which I could care less about. Overall I was very disappointed with this book.

Excellent Lincoln Rhymes installment.....surpising twists make it! ( )

A ruthless professional killer is hired to eliminate three witnesses set to testify at an arms dealer's grand jury trial. He's already gotten one of them, and it's up to Lincoln Rhyme, a brilliant forensics expert who hasn't let the accident that paralyzed him keep him from his job, to catch him before he kills the other two.

I don't think I can call this a good book. If I'm being extremely charitable, I might describe the writing as "unpretentious," and even then I'd have to admit that it's full of infodump-y and often strangely repetitive exposition, especially in the earlier chapters. There are a few Hollywood-style cliches here, too. And some of the characters strike me as rather gimmicky. I particularly have trouble getting past the gorgeous ex-model-turned-cop. I mean... seriously? Although I'm honestly not sure whether the fact that she's also into sport shooting and drag racing makes it better or worse. I did like the main character, though. He's got a slightly gruff, very focused personality that somehow appeals to me. Or at least potentially does, anyway; he's not really developed all that strongly here. Maybe he gets a better introduction in the first book, which I haven't read.

The plot's not bad, though, being a decently constructed little cat-and-mouse game with an interesting (if slightly odd) twist or two along the way. Ultimately, I found the book much more readable and entertaining than it seemed like it ought to be. If nothing else, it did a pretty good job of keeping me awake through a couple of otherwise boring night shifts. Honestly, reading it was a lot like snacking through a big bag of cheap potato chips. You know there are much better things you could be consuming, but the sheer act of munching through it feels kind of good. ( )

The Coffin Dancer wasn't the normal book by Jeffery Deaver. It wasn't a stomach turning, gut wrenching horror but a spine tingling thriller.
The cons about the book were that it wasn't the norm for Deaver and some parts made my stomach turn. The pros were that it kept me on the edge of my seat always wanting to read on.Also an unsuspected twist keeps you wondering whats gonna happen next. ( )

This book was about a guy that goes around killing a bunch of people. That is all I really know about the book because I only read 35 pages.
I only read 35 pages because I could not understand what was going on in the story and there were a lot of words that I didn't understand and I had a hard time reading some of the words also. I didn’t really understand what was going on cause things that you didn’t expect to happen was happening so I had a really hard time following what was going on.
When I first heard about this book I was really into it because it was about CSI and things like that. So I would recommend this book to people that are into CSI and that are really strong readers. ( )