Jeffery Deaver
Jeffery Deaver | |
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Born | Glen Ellyn, Illinois, U.S. | May 6, 1950
Occupation | Writer |
Education | University of Missouri (BJ) Fordham University (JD) |
Genre | Mystery fiction, crime writer, thriller |
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Jeffery Deaver (born May 6, 1950)
Life and career
Deaver was born near Chicago in
Deaver's most popular series features Lincoln Rhyme, a
Deaver's 2001 book The Blue Nowhere features
Deaver edited The Best American Mystery Stories 2009.
Three of Deaver's novels have been made into films:
- A Maiden's Grave made for TV as film Dead Silence 1997
- The Bone Collector released 1999
- The Devil's Teardrop made for TV 2010
Additionally, The Bone Collector has been adapted as a television series, Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector. Tracker, a television series based on his novel The Never Game premiered in 2024.
Deaver also created the characters and—in a collaboration with 14 other noted writers—wrote the 17-part serial thriller
Deaver was chosen to write a new James Bond novel:[8] Carte Blanche[9] is set in 2011 and was published on May 25, 2011.[10] He is the second American author to write Bond novels, after Raymond Benson.
Bibliography
ISBNs for the books listed. . (August 2020) |
Standalone works
- Mistress of Justice (1992)
- The Lesson of Her Death (1993)
- Praying for Sleep (1994)
- A Maiden's Grave (1995)
- Speaking in Tongues (2000)
- The Blue Nowhere (2001)
- Garden of Beasts (2004)
- The Chopin Manuscript (2008) (collaborative fiction)
- The Bodies Left Behind (2008)
- Edge (2010)
- The October List (2013)
- "Buried" (2020) (Amazon Short Stories)
Rune Trilogy
- Manhattan Is My Beat (1988)
- Death of a Blue Movie Star (1990)
- Hard News (1991)
John Pellam (Location Scout series)
- Shallow Graves (1992)
- Bloody River Blues (1993)
- Hell's Kitchen (2001)
Lincoln Rhyme
- The Bone Collector (1997)
- The Coffin Dancer (1998)
- The Empty Chair (2000)
- The Stone Monkey (2002)
- The Vanished Man (2003) (includes an appearance by Parker Kincaid)
- The Twelfth Card (2005) (includes an appearance by Parker Kincaid)
- The Cold Moon (2006) (Introduces Kathryn Dance)
- The Broken Window (2008)
- The Burning Wire (2010)
- The Kill Room (2013)
- The Skin Collector (2014)
- The Steel Kiss (2016)
- The Burial Hour (2017)
- The Cutting Edge (2018)
- The Midnight Lock (2021)
- The Watchmaker's Hand (2023)
Kathryn Dance
- The Sleeping Doll (2007) (includes a brief appearance by Lincoln Rhyme)
- Roadside Crosses (2009)
- XO (2012) (includes a brief appearance by Lincoln Rhyme)
- Solitude Creek (May 12, 2015)
Parker Kincaid
- The Devil's Teardrop (1999) (introduces Parker Kincaid, includes a scene with Lincoln Rhyme)
Colter Shaw
- The Never Game (2019)
- The Goodbye Man (2020)
- The Final Twist (2021)
- Hunting Time (2022)
James Bond
- Carte Blanche (2011)
Collections
- A Confederacy of Crime (2001)
- Twisted (2003)
- More Twisted (2006) (includes a story featuring Lincoln Rhyme)
- Trouble in Mind (2014) (includes two stories featuring Lincoln Rhyme, one story featuring Kathryn Dance and one story featuring John Pellam)
- The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives (2009) (Includes a short Mysterious Profile about Lincoln Rhyme)
Anthologies
- Faceoff (2014) (includes Lincoln Rhyme vs. Lucas Davenport in “Rhymes With Prey,” by Jeffery Deaver and John Sandford
- Nothing Good Happens After Midnight (2020) edited by Jeffery Deaver (includes his story "Midnight Sonata") and includes Rhys Bowen, Linwood Barclay, Heather Graham, et al.
Adaptations
- Dead Silence (1997) A HBO film based on A Maiden's Grave. Starring James Garner, Kim Coates, Marlee Matlin and Lolita Davidovich.
- The Bone Collector (1999) A feature film based on The Bone Collector. Starring Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah, Michael Rooker and Ed O'Neill.
- The Devil's Teardrop (2010) A Lifetime television film based on The Devil's Teardrop. Starring Tom Everett Scott and Natasha Henstridge.
- Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector (2020) An NBC television series, based on The Bone Collector. Starring Russell Hornsby and Arielle Kebbel.
- Tracker (2024) A CBS television series, based on The Never Game. Starring Justin Hartley, Robin Weigert, Abby McEnany, Eric Graise, Fiona Rene, and Wendy Crewson.
References
- ^ "Deaver, Jeffrey". Library of Congress. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
- ^ "The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2004: Winner Jeffery Deaver". Archived from the original on December 25, 2005. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
- ^ "Jeffery Deaver wins the CWA Short Story Dagger Award 2004". Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Retrieved October 2, 2013.
- ^ "Julie Reece Deaver". www.juliedeaver.com.
- ^ Davis, Jane. "Jeffery Deaver's Biography". Jeffery Deaver.
- ^ "BBC Radio 2 – The Radio 2 Book Club – Solitude Creek by Jeffery Deaver". BBC.
- ^ "Lemelson-MIT Program". lemelson.mit.edu.
- ^ "Never Say Never: Jeffery Deaver to Write New James Bond Novel" The New York Times. Retrieved February 4, 2011
- ^ "The first copies of the eagerly awaited new Bond book, Carte Blanche, arrived in style". Archived from the original on November 5, 2011. Retrieved May 26, 2011.
- ^ "James Bond: Jeffery Deaver unveils his 21st Century spy". BBC News. May 25, 2011. Retrieved May 26, 2011.