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American mystery and crime writer

Jeffery Deaver
Deaver at a Waterstones bookstore in London, 2012
Born	(1950-05-06) May 6, 1950 (age 76)Glen Ellyn, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation	Writer
Education	University of Missouri (BJ)Fordham University (JD)
Genre	Mystery fiction, crime writer, thriller
Website
www.jefferydeaver.com

Jeffery Deaver (born May 6, 1950)[1] is an American mystery and crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a J.D. degree from Fordham University. He began his career as a journalist and later practiced law before embarking on a career as a novelist. He has been awarded the Steel Dagger[2] and Short Story Dagger[3] from the British Crime Writers' Association and the Nero Award from The Wolfe Pack. He is also 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 near Chicago in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. His mother was an artist, and his father an advertising writer.[4] His sister Julie Deaver is an author of young adult novels.[5] He was inspired to write by From Russia With Love, a James Bond novel by Ian Fleming.[6]

Deaver's most popular series features Lincoln Rhyme, a quadriplegic detective, and NYPD Detective Amelia Sachs.[_citation needed_]

Deaver's 2001 book,The Blue Nowhere, features criminal hackers (one using social engineering to commit murder), and a law enforcement computer crime unit. In it, Deaver pays homage to Lee de Forest, the inventor of the Audion (also known as the triode tube), who is considered to have opened the world to electronic development.[7]

Deaver edited The Best American Mystery Stories 2009.[_citation needed_]

Three of Deaver's novels have been made into films:[_citation needed_]

• A Maiden's Grave adapted as Dead Silence (1997)
• The Bone Collector (1999)
• The Devil's Teardrop (2010)

The Bone Collector was 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.[_citation needed_]

Deaver also created the characters and—in a collaboration with 14 other noted writers—wrote the 17-part serial thriller The Chopin Manuscript narrated by Alfred Molina. It was broadcast on Audible.com from September 25 to November 13, 2007. It is also available in print.[_citation needed_]

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.[_citation needed_]

• Mistress of Justice (1992) (ISBN 978-0-553-58445-5)
• The Lesson of Her Death (1993)
• Praying for Sleep (1994) (ISBN 978-0-451-20305-2)
• A Maiden's Grave (1995) (ISBN 978-0-451-20429-5)
• Speaking in Tongues (2000) (ISBN 978-0-684-87126-4)
• The Blue Nowhere (2001) (ISBN 978-0-340-76751-1)
• Garden of Beasts [pl] (2004) (ISBN 978-0-7435-6957-6)
• The Chopin Manuscript (2008) (collaborative fiction)
• The Bodies Left Behind (2008) (ISBN 978-1-4165-9561-8)
• Edge (2010)
• The October List (2013) (ISBN 978-1-4555-7664-7)
• "Buried" (2020) (Amazon Short Stories)

1. Manhattan Is My Beat (1988)
2. Death of a Blue Movie Star (1990)
3. Hard News (1991)

John Pellam (Location Scout series)

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1. Shallow Graves (1992)
2. Bloody River Blues (1993)
3. Hell's Kitchen (2001)
4. The Bone Collector (1997)
5. The Coffin Dancer (1998)
6. The Empty Chair (2000)
7. The Stone Monkey (2002)
8. The Vanished Man (2003) (includes an appearance by Parker Kincaid)
9. The Twelfth Card (2005) (includes an appearance by Parker Kincaid)
10. The Cold Moon (2006) (Introduces Kathryn Dance)
11. The Broken Window (2008)
12. The Burning Wire (2010)
13. The Kill Room (2013)
14. The Skin Collector (2014)
15. The Steel Kiss (2016)
16. The Burial Hour (2017)
17. The Cutting Edge (2018)
18. The Midnight Lock (2021)
19. The Watchmaker's Hand (2023)
20. The Collateral Heart (2026)
21. The Sleeping Doll (2007) (includes a brief appearance by Lincoln Rhyme)
22. Roadside Crosses (2009)
23. XO (2012) (includes a brief appearance by Lincoln Rhyme)
24. Solitude Creek (May 12, 2015)

• The Devil's Teardrop (1999) (introduces Parker Kincaid, includes a scene with Lincoln Rhyme)

1. Captivated (short) (2019)
2. The Never Game (2019)
3. The Second Hostage (short) (2020)
4. The Goodbye Man (2020)
5. Forgotten (short) (2021)
6. The Final Twist (2021)
7. The Deadline Clock (short) (2022)
8. Hunting Time (2022)
9. South of Nowhere (2025)

• Carte Blanche (2011)
• 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)
• 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.
• 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.

1. ^ "Deaver, Jeffrey". Library of Congress. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
2. ^ "The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2004: Winner Jeffery Deaver". Archived from the original on December 25, 2005. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
3. ^ "Jeffery Deaver wins the CWA Short Story Dagger Award 2004". Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Retrieved October 2, 2013.
4. ^ "Julie Reece Deaver". www.juliedeaver.com. Archived from the original on August 15, 2015. Retrieved June 2, 2015.
5. ^ Davis, Jane. "Jeffery Deaver's Biography". Jeffery Deaver.
6. ^ "BBC Radio 2 – The Radio 2 Book Club – Solitude Creek by Jeffery Deaver". BBC.
7. ^ "Lemelson-MIT Program". lemelson.mit.edu.
8. ^ "Never Say Never: Jeffery Deaver to Write New James Bond Novel" The New York Times. Retrieved February 4, 2011
9. ^ "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.
10. ^ "James Bond: Jeffery Deaver unveils his 21st Century spy". BBC News. May 25, 2011. Retrieved May 26, 2011.

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