Jeffrey Deaver
Author of The Bone Collector
About the Author
Jeffery Deaver was born on May 6, 1950 in Chicago, Illinois. He received a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University. Before attending law school, he worked as a business writer. After law school, he worked for a Wall Street law firm practicing show more corporate law. In 1990, he decided to stop practicing law and become a full-time writer. His first novel was a horror story entitled Voodoo. He is the author of more than 25 novels and has written some of those stories under the pseudonym William Jeffries. He writes the Lincoln Rhyme series and the Kathryn Dance series. A Maiden's Grave was adapted into a film by HBO called Dead Silence and The Bone Collector was adapted into a feature film starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. He received the Steel Dagger and Short Story Dagger from the British Crime Writers' Association, the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story of the Year three times, and the British Thumping Good Read Award. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Jeffery Deaver on September 08, 2019 in Gallarate, Italy
Series
Works by Jeffrey Deaver
Watchlist: Two Serial Thrillers in One Killer Book (2010) — Editor; Contributor — 365 copies, 12 reviews
The Complete Law School Companion: How to Excel at America's Most Demanding Post-Graduate Curriculum (1984) 33 copies
Reader's Digest Select Editions 2007 v05 #293: Shadow Dance / Francesca's Kitchen / The Sleeping Doll / Garden Spells (2007) — Author — 14 copies
Forever {story} 4 copies
The Kathryn Dance Collection 1-3: The Sleeping Doll, Roadside Crosses, XO (English Edition) (2015) 3 copies
The Steel Kiss (First Six Chapters) 2 copies
Beautiful [short story] 2 copies
Born Bad [short story] 2 copies
Deceptions 1 copy
Lincoln Rhyme 1-12 1 copy
The Plot 1 copy
Deadline Clock 1 copy
Ablak a halálra 1 copy
Cold-Blooded: Repressed 1 copy
The First Day of School 1 copy
Glamorama 1 copy
De illusionist 1 copy
De hangende man 1 copy
De zonden der vaderen 1 copy
Cyberkiller 1 copy
Brandend ijs 1 copy
O 11° Mandamento 1 copy
The Ruins 1 copy
Born in Death 1 copy
Little Earthquakes 1 copy
Repressed 1 copy
Last Words 1 copy
Pygmy 1 copy
Skin Trade 1 copy
Lullaby 1 copy
Mary, Mary 1 copy
Robin and Ruby 1 copy
Tempo di cacci 1 copy
Jeffery Deaver presenta Suspense: i piu bei racconti gialli degli ultimi cento anni /Edizione italiana a cura di Andrea Carlo Cappi — Editor — 1 copy
The Hangman's Waltz 1 copy
Ein Tödlicher Plan Thriller | Undercover in Einem Netz Aus Korruption, Intrigen und Mord (2025) 1 copy
Piekielna dzielnica 1 copy
Surveillance [short story] 1 copy
Interrogation [short story] 1 copy
Afraid [short story] 1 copy
Tunnel Girl [short story] 1 copy
The Voyeur [short story] 1 copy
The Commuter [short story] 1 copy
The Bone Collector | The Coffin Dancer | The Stone Monkey | The Twelfth Card | The Vanished Man 1 copy
Making Amends 1 copy
Het dossier 1 copy
Eye to Eye [short story] 1 copy
Gone Fishing [short story] 1 copy
Nocturne [short story] 1 copy
Jeffery Deaver Collection 8 Books Set (Mistress of Justice, Bloody River Blues, Shallow Graves, Manhattan Is My Beat, Death of a Blue Movie Star, October List, Speaking In… (2022) 1 copy, 1 review
Deaver Export Shrinkwrap 3 for 2 containing Bone Collector, Coffin Dancer and Maiden's Grave (2005) 1 copy
The Fall Guy [short story] 1 copy
The Blank Card [short story] 1 copy
Together [short story] 1 copy
2000 1 copy
2003 1 copy
Duivelstraan 1 copy
Associated Works
In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper (2016) — Contributor — 287 copies, 16 reviews
Bibliomysteries: Crime in the World of Books and Bookstores, Volume One (2013) — Contributor — 242 copies, 14 reviews
The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives (2009) — Contributor — 239 copies, 5 reviews
Manhattan Mayhem: New Crime Stories from Mystery Writers of America (2015) — Contributor — 212 copies, 30 reviews
In the Shadow of the Master: Classic Tales by Edgar Allan Poe (2009) — Contributor — 204 copies, 3 reviews
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: First Annual Collection (2000) — Contributor — 68 copies, 1 review
Reader's Digest Select Editions 1999 v06 #246: The Devil's Teardrop / Lake News / Thunderhead / A Walk to Remember (1999) 55 copies, 1 review
Alive in Shape and Color: 16 Paintings by Great Artists and the Stories They Inspired (2019) — Contributor — 53 copies, 3 reviews
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Third Annual Collection (2002) — Contributor — 46 copies
Reader's Digest Select Editions 2001 v05 #257: The Ice Child / The Blue Nowhere / Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas / Back When We Were Grownups (2001) 43 copies
A Confederacy of Crime: New Stories of Southern-Style Mystery (2001) — Contributor — 42 copies, 1 review
The Best of the Best American Mystery Stories: The First Ten Years (2014) — Contributor — 39 copies, 1 review
Reader's Digest Select Editions 2000 v05 #251: Ghost Moon / The Empty Chair /Hawke's Cove / The Color of Hope (2000) 30 copies, 1 review
The Deadly Bride and 21 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Volume II (2006) — Contributor — 29 copies
Private Investigations: Mystery Writers on the Secrets, Riddles, and Wonders in Their Lives (2020) — Contributor — 29 copies, 4 reviews
Greatest Hits: Original Stories of Hitmen, Hired Guns, and Private Eyes (2005) — Contributor — 18 copies
Thriller: An Anthology of New Mystery Short Stories (The Music and Murder Mystery Series) (2023) — Contributor — 14 copies, 1 review
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: The Vanished Man • Don't Look Back • Prey • Street Boys (2003) 12 copies
Select Editions: The Sleeping Doll / Heart of the Dales / The Island / The Sacred Bones (2000) 12 copies
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: The Ice Child • The Blue Nowhere • Warlock • Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas (2001) 10 copies, 1 review
Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher 226 : Im Schatten des Pferdemondes. Mord auf Bestellung. Ums nackte Leben. Der China-Ship (1999) — Author — 9 copies
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Seventh Annual Edition (1998) — Contributor — 9 copies
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Last Light • The Stone Monkey • Dying To Tell • Fallen Angel (2001) — Contributor — 8 copies
Libros selectos. El tatuado de la danza macabra. Vuelo funesto. El halconero. La última jugada (2000) 6 copies
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Second Wind • The Devil's Teardrop • A Peculiar Chemistry • Stinger (2000) 6 copies
Livros Condensados: O Macaco de Pedra | Um Passo de Dança | Eu Não tenho Medo | Melodia do Coração (2004) — Author — 5 copies
Death's Betrayal: Two Novellas from Transgressions {audio} (2005) — Contributor — 4 copies, 1 review
Livros Condensados: A cadeira vazia | Bem-vindo a Normal | Presidente em exercício | Brisa sussurante (2002) 4 copies
Livros Condensados: Stinger | Lua Vazia | A Lágrima do Diabo | A Catarata do Anjo (1998) — Author — 4 copies
Het Beste Boek 229: De illusionist / De thuiskomst / Dubbele leugen / Schaduwspel 3 copies, 1 review
Det Bästas bokval, vol. 218 3 copies
Livros Condensados: A Décima Segunda Carta | No Comboio Para Lisboa | Crime Nas Apostas | Juntos Na Solidão (2007) — Author — 3 copies
Readers Digest Select Editions: The Empty Chair / The Other Side of the Dale / Code to Zero / Nora, Nora (2003) — Author — 2 copies
Det Bästas Bokval (2004) vol 234: Stenapan; Par och piruetter; Hinder i vägen; Jag är inte rädd — Author — 2 copies
Valitujen Palojen Tiivistetyt Kirjat - The testament; Fly away home; The Devil's teardrop; The obsession (2001) 2 copies
Australian Reader's Digest Select Editions: The Loop • The Kremlin Device • Somebody's Baby • The Coffin Dancer (1999) — Contributor — 2 copies
Goed fout : fragmenten uit misdaadverhalen van bekroonde auteurs — Contributor — 2 copies
Reader's Digest Select Editions: The Vanished Man • Street Boys • The Christmas Train • The Summer That Never Was (2003) 2 copies
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Exclusion Zone / The Loop / The Coffin Dancer / Archangel (1999) 2 copies
Reader's Digest Select Editions: XO / The Man Who Forgot His Wife / A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder / Now You See Her (2012) — Author — 1 copy
Het Beste Boek 206: Het bloed kruipt / Influenza / Een droom van een man / Wespenval — Contributor — 1 copy, 1 review
Válogatott könyvek 30. Jeffery Deaver - Kőmajom; Susan Wilson - Szenvedélyek szigete; John Katzenbach - A lélekbúvár; James Thayer - Ítéletidő (2003) — Author — 1 copy
Det Bästas Bokval (2003) vol 225: Eldfångaren; Bärnstensamuletten; Den tomma stolen — Author — 1 copy
Wenn wir uns wiedersehen / Das Gold von Malawi / Von kalter Hand / Jennys Geschichte (Reader´s Digest Auswahlbücher) (1988) — Contributor — 1 copy
Livros Condensados: O macaco de pedra | Um dia perfeito | Rato de praia | Por inteiro — Author — 1 copy
Reader`s Digest Auswahlbüher: Die Meschenleserin / Weit übers Meer / Die letzte Sure / Ihre einzige Liebe (2009) 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Deaver, Jeffrey
- Legal name
- Deaver, Jeffery Wilds
- Other names
- Jeffries, William
- Birthdate
- 1950-05-06
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of Missouri (BA)
Fordham University (JD) - Occupations
- lawyer
journalist
folk singer
novelist - Agent
- Deborah Schneider (Gelfman Schneider Literary)
- Relationships
- Deaver, Julie Reece (sister)
- Short biography
- Jeffery Deaver (born May 6, 1950) is an American mystery/crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist. He later practiced law before embarking on a successful career as a best-selling novelist.He has been awarded the Steel Dagger and Short Story Dagger from the British Crime Writers' Association and the Nero Wolfe Award, and he is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story of the Year and a winner of the British Thumping Good Read Award. His novels have appeared on bestseller lists around the world, including The New York Times, The Times, Italy's Corriere della Sera, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The Los Angeles Times.
Deaver was born outside Chicago in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. His mother was an artist, and his father an advertising writer. His sister Julie Deaver is an author of young adult novels. The book that inspired him to write was From Russia With Love, a James Bond novel by Ian Fleming. - Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Glen Ellyn, Illinois, USA
- Map Location
- Illinois, USA
Members
Discussions
Fiction framed for murder in Name that Book (August 2020)
Mai 2020: "Edge"/"Schutzlos" von Jeffery Deaver in Brettspiel-Twitter auf Librarything (May 2020)
Reviews
Fanfrickintastic. I am loving the Sanchez and Heron series by Jeffrey Deaver and Isabella Maldonado. The multiple plot lines and villains that are found in The Grave Artist kept my mind spinning, and the authors kept me on my toes from beginning to end.
Carmen Sanchez is an agent for Homeland Security Investigations. Her partner, Jake Heron is a security expert. They are the only two members of a newly created division, I-Squared. Governmental politics will rear its ugly head, but that’s to show more be expected. They find a way to work around it.
Carmen and Jake first meet the Honeymoon Killer when a groom is murdered. They quickly discover he has struck in other countries, but for some reason, when they try to contact them, they get no response. We learn who the serial killer is from the very beginning and see the world through his eyes. It does not detract from the story, it only enhances it.
Declan is Jake Heron’s computer. He is analytical and creative. If you didn’t know he was a computer, you might think he was a person when you are talking to him.
Silena, Carmen’s sister, is on the hunt for their father’s murderer. Everyone thought it was a suicide, but they were convinced he found out something he shouldn’t have and it cost him his life. Carmen had told her to hang tight until she closed the Honeymoon Killer case and she could help, but… Carmen and Silena are kickass characters, sometimes putting themselves in danger by not waiting for the Calvary to come.
Tristan Kane, from the first book, Fatal Intrusion, puts in an appearance. making their investigation even more complicated.
It took both of their skills to answers all the questions I had, and I didn’t get the answers until the very end…and that ending…it keeps on giving. Every time I thought the characters trials and tribulations were over, Jeffrey and Isabella found something else that made my jaw drop. Awesome. Spine tingling. Mysterious.
I want to thank Thomas & Mercer and MB Communications for the opportunity to read and review The Grave Artist by Jeffrey Deaver and Isabella Maldonado.
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Carmen Sanchez is an agent for Homeland Security Investigations. Her partner, Jake Heron is a security expert. They are the only two members of a newly created division, I-Squared. Governmental politics will rear its ugly head, but that’s to show more be expected. They find a way to work around it.
Carmen and Jake first meet the Honeymoon Killer when a groom is murdered. They quickly discover he has struck in other countries, but for some reason, when they try to contact them, they get no response. We learn who the serial killer is from the very beginning and see the world through his eyes. It does not detract from the story, it only enhances it.
Declan is Jake Heron’s computer. He is analytical and creative. If you didn’t know he was a computer, you might think he was a person when you are talking to him.
Silena, Carmen’s sister, is on the hunt for their father’s murderer. Everyone thought it was a suicide, but they were convinced he found out something he shouldn’t have and it cost him his life. Carmen had told her to hang tight until she closed the Honeymoon Killer case and she could help, but… Carmen and Silena are kickass characters, sometimes putting themselves in danger by not waiting for the Calvary to come.
Tristan Kane, from the first book, Fatal Intrusion, puts in an appearance. making their investigation even more complicated.
It took both of their skills to answers all the questions I had, and I didn’t get the answers until the very end…and that ending…it keeps on giving. Every time I thought the characters trials and tribulations were over, Jeffrey and Isabella found something else that made my jaw drop. Awesome. Spine tingling. Mysterious.
I want to thank Thomas & Mercer and MB Communications for the opportunity to read and review The Grave Artist by Jeffrey Deaver and Isabella Maldonado.
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Jeffery Deaver has outdone himself with this one. His character "The Locksmith" breaks into the apartments of women in New York, simply by just easily picking their locks. Once he is in, he moves their belongings around and sits and watches them sleep. Then he takes a single knife from each of the apartments. This we learn, "bothers Lincoln". Yeah, Lincoln... do you think??? It more than bothered me! Lincoln believes that the perp could eventually escalate to murder before he can be stopped. show more With this installment with Lincoln Rhymes, Jeffery Deaver has created a tense, exciting and mystery packed story in which nothing is as it appears, and deception and treachery are the main part of the game. Creepy doesn't begin to describe the feeling you get reading about what these women find when they awake and find that someone was a close as sitting in a chair by your bed, watching every breath you take. The sense of threat, is overwhelming, producing a scenario that has your pulse pounding without anyone having to even take a step. The "Locksmith" delights in knowing that he can ruin everything for his victims and leave them with only fear as a companion. There is of course a threat to their lives, but what he does and how he makes them feel is maybe far worse. The ideas and possibilities of how easy home invasion, stalking, and potential threat to life actually is, will have you locking and double locking doors and checking them all twice as this story stays with you long after the last word on the page. One of the best stories to come out of the 15 Lincoln Rhymes books. show less
This book did not disappoint me in terms of what I have come to expect from Deaver's writing. According to the author's note at the beginning, he rewrote it extensively 13 years after it was first published. He says "In rereading the first version of this book, which I wrote thirteen years ago, I realized that, while it was a perfectly acceptable dramatic, character-driven study of life on Wall Street, it didn't make my--and presumably my readers'--palms sweat." Well, I don't know that my show more palms sweated but I did find it quite suspenseful. And I find that I am impressed that Deaver admits his writing needed improving and then went ahead to act on that.
The story takes place in a large Wall Street law firm. Taylor Lockwood is a paralegal in the firm, planning on going to law school soon, but also following her love for playing jazz piano at night. One morning she is abruptly pulled off the case she is working on and told to report to Mitchell Reece. Reece has a case that he is going to lose because the promissory note on which the case is based has been stolen from his office. He wants Taylor to investigate and find the note before court reconvenes in less than a week. Reece thinks that someone in the law firm has stolen the note because there is a proposed merger which the senior partners are vehemently opposing. If Reece's case is lost the senior partners will have lost a valuable client and the merger is almost certain to proceed. Taylor finds the most likely suspects by accessing billing data, after hours access card use, taxi and limo vouchers and other records which incidentally allows the reader to understand the inner workings of a large law firm. One by one she eliminates the suspects until, on the night before the trial is to start, she believes she knows who has the note. Her cliffhangar entrance into the courtroom is straight out of Perry Mason (oops I guess that dates me). And the excitement is not over then. There are almost another 100 pages to go.
I thought Taylor was a very interesting character but the others seemed fairly stereotypical. Although Deaver says in his notes "...the many hardworking lawyers who wished for nothing more than to help their clients and to make a living at their chosen profession", overwhelmly the lawyers are shown as money-grasping and unethical. A reader with a negative view of the legal profession is not going to be convinced to change that view by this book. Nevertheless, I would recommend this book to other readers for the strength of the story. show less
The story takes place in a large Wall Street law firm. Taylor Lockwood is a paralegal in the firm, planning on going to law school soon, but also following her love for playing jazz piano at night. One morning she is abruptly pulled off the case she is working on and told to report to Mitchell Reece. Reece has a case that he is going to lose because the promissory note on which the case is based has been stolen from his office. He wants Taylor to investigate and find the note before court reconvenes in less than a week. Reece thinks that someone in the law firm has stolen the note because there is a proposed merger which the senior partners are vehemently opposing. If Reece's case is lost the senior partners will have lost a valuable client and the merger is almost certain to proceed. Taylor finds the most likely suspects by accessing billing data, after hours access card use, taxi and limo vouchers and other records which incidentally allows the reader to understand the inner workings of a large law firm. One by one she eliminates the suspects until, on the night before the trial is to start, she believes she knows who has the note. Her cliffhangar entrance into the courtroom is straight out of Perry Mason (oops I guess that dates me). And the excitement is not over then. There are almost another 100 pages to go.
I thought Taylor was a very interesting character but the others seemed fairly stereotypical. Although Deaver says in his notes "...the many hardworking lawyers who wished for nothing more than to help their clients and to make a living at their chosen profession", overwhelmly the lawyers are shown as money-grasping and unethical. A reader with a negative view of the legal profession is not going to be convinced to change that view by this book. Nevertheless, I would recommend this book to other readers for the strength of the story. show less
I probably should have paid more attention to the title. I'm not a fan of grisly serial killer novels, and haven't read one since Silence of the Lambs in the early 90s. I really enjoyed a crime/mystery short story by Jeffrey Deaver and sought out a full novel. The Bone Collector is well written, pacy and compulsive with well-drawn characters. But there is a distinct gruesomeness that doesn't appeal to me. I will probably read another book in the series simply because this one was so well show more written (though the final pages let it down). Recommended with caveats. show less
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