The Cold Moon: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel
by Jeffery Deaver
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Author: Jeffery DeaverEdition: Hardcover
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Published: 2006-05-30
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 416
Book Reviews of The Cold Moon: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel
Book Review: Beyond Double Cross
Summary: 4 Stars
This Lincoln Rhyme mystery is beyond a double-cross. It is more like a quadruple cross. Past Deaver/Rhyme books have had more tense action. The cerebral chapters were followed by tense skin-of-the-teeth action escapades, especially by the lovely Sachs. This iteration of the series has fewer such scenes than its predecessors.
Cold Moon has more of the cerebral with amazing plot twists that do, at times, push the envelope of reality. That does not diminish the book. This genre is for entertainment, not complete verifiable scientific certitude. As always, though, there is plenty of the esoteric scientific crime scene investigation.
Every Rhyme book brings a lot of knowledge on a certain subject that separates Deaver's books from the run of the mill mystery. For instance, Vanishing Man taught the reader much about magicians and their performances. Rhyme always extolled the virtues of concrete evidence over witnesses. In Cold Moon, however, an expert on kinetics and witness interviewing is brought into the fray and through her scientific interview and observation skills she propels the investigation forward where Rhyme can not take it, causing him to give grudging respect to the witness or interviewee. This is the area in which Mr. Deaver educates the reader in this book. There is some esoteric tidbits about clocks and time brought by the serial killer known as the Watchmaker, but the scientific aspects of body language and interviewing is the main educational focal point.
Cold Moon was not as fast-paced as Deaver's earlier Rhyme mysteries, but the centerpiece of the plot is outstanding. For those of us who have followed the series, there is also the continuing appearances and relationships of the primary characters - Rhyme, Sach, Sellito, Thom and others. They continue to evolve which adds to each book as part of a series. This book can stand alone, but the followers of this crew will enjoy the well-known characters.
Although this is not the best of the Rhyme novels, any Rhyme novel is a good step up from the norm in this genre.
Summary of The Cold Moon: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel
It's the night of the full Cold Moon -- the month of December according to the lunar calendar. A young man is found dead in lower Manhattan, the first in a series of victims of a man calling himself the Watchmaker. This killer's obsession with time drives him to plan the murders with the precision of fine timepieces, and the victims die prolonged deaths while an eerie clock ticks away their last minutes on earth. Lincoln Rhyme, Amelia Sachs and the rest of the crew are tapped to handle the case and stop the Watchmaker and his partner, Vincent Reynolds, a repulsive character with a special interest in the female victims of the killer. Amelia is not only Lincoln's eyes and ears at crime scenes on the Watchmaker case, but she's now running her own homicide investigation--her first case as lead detective. The policewoman's unwavering efforts in pursuing the killers of a businessman, who left behind a wife and son, sets into motion clockwork gears of its own, with consequences reaching to people and events that will endanger not only many lives but Lincoln's and Amelia's future together.Literature & Fiction Books
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