Jeffery Deaver is good at what he does, writing thrillers with a fast-moving plot and a good amount of scientific knowledge, trivia and theory thrown in. The Bone Collector belongs firmly in his oeuvre. A clever psychopath stalks New York, leaving enough clues for quadriplegic bedpan sleuth Lincoln Rhyme to home in on his victims [...]

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Jeffery Deaver‘s Garden of Beasts is the first book I’ve read by him. I picked it up, not knowing anything about him, but placing him in the “Thriller/Slightly Unbelievable Fiction” category from the size of the titular font. I was not wrong. This book is about an American hitman who’s recruited to serve Uncle Sam [...]

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This one’s all about saying goodbye. “So Long, “Gotta Run”, “Sayonara, “Au Revoir”, “Time To Go” and “Bye Bye” are all examples of “Famous Last Words”. Looks like they forgot “Hasta La Vista”, baby. The rest was ho-hum, with a literary nod towards Swift and Wilde with “Satires” for “Works of Swift and Wilde”.

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This one was all about numbers, specifically types of numbers. “Prime Time”, “Odd Men Out”, “Even Tenor” and “Real McCoy” were the thematic answers here. “Et Tu”, Willus? The rest of this puzzle was ho-hum and ended sooner than we’d expected, owing to several clues being seen for the nth time. No matter, the archive [...]

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