Bloody River Blues [Import] [Hardcover]

Jeffery Deaver (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0340818778
• ISBN-13: 978-0340818770
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,600,718 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jeffery Deaver was born outside of Chicago in 1950. His father was an advertising copywriter and his mother was a homemaker. He has one younger sister who writes novels for teenagers ' Julie Reece Deaver.

Deaver wrote his first book ' which consisted of two entire chapters ' when he was eleven, and he's been writing ever since. An award-winning poet and journalist, he has also written and performed his own songs around the country. After receiving a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Missouri, Deaver worked as a magazine writer, then, to gain the background needed to become a legal correspondent for The New York Times or Wall Street Journal, he enrolled at Fordham Law School. After graduation he decided to practice law for a time and worked for several years as an attorney for a large Wall Street firm. It was during his long commute to and from the office that he began writing the type of fiction he enjoyed reading: suspense novels. In 1990 he started to write full time.

The author of twenty-two novels, Deaver has been nominated for six Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America, an Anthony award, a Gumshoe Award, and is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story of the Year. In 2001, he won the W.H. Smith Thumping Good Read Award for his Lincoln Rhyme novel The Empty Chair. In 2004, he was awarded the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain's Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for Garden Of Beasts and the Short Story Dagger for "The Weekender." Translated into 35 languages, his novels have appeared on a number of bestseller lists around the world, including the New York Times, the London Times and the Los Angeles Times. The Bone Collector was a feature release from Universal Pictures, starring Denzel Washington as Lincoln Rhyme. A Maiden's Grave was made into an HBO film retitled Dead Silence, starring James Garner and Marlee Matlin.

Jeff has also released two collections of his short stories, called Twisted and More Twisted.

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5.0 out of 5 stars plenty of hitmen, March 15, 2011

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This review is from: Bloody River Blues (Location Scout) (Paperback)

Bloody River Blues is the second of Jeffrey Deaver's Location Scout novels. Still working as a location scout, this time by the Missouri River, John Pellam accidentally witnesses a hitman preparing for a hit about to take place. In the aftermath, the local cops, the FBI and the hitmen are all after Pellaim, either for identification or elimination purposes. Although he didn't actually see the mob boss the law is after, convincing people you don't know something when they are certain you do is much harder than the reverse. At the same time, Pellam is trying to get his own movie into production, but is being hindered by having the cops and the FBI on his back. And a mysterious blonde wants his company as well. Pellam plays poker, makes chilli, drinks applewine, does a bit of motorcycle riding and fends off a couple of murder attempts before ultimately finding out just who he supposedly witnessed. Excellent plot twists: another great Location Scout novel.