Law and Order: Deadline: An Original Law and Order Novel [Paperback]

Madison J. Davis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2004

When a woman's body is found at the bottom of a hotel air shaft in Times Square, it looks like a routine suicide. Enter Detectives. Lennie Briscoe and Ed Green. Something about the woman seems out of place in the tourist trap. Her clothing suggests wealth. No socialite would be caught dead in a place like this. The trail leads to an about-to-be published tell-all novel destined to be a best-seller. Now Briscoe and Green have to find out what's in it that's worth murder!Following the exact format and pacing of the TV show, this original novel is a must for the millions of L&O viewers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Ibooks, Inc. (August 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1596870753
• ISBN-13: 978-1596870758
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #418,639 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Novel From a Fine Television Show, July 12, 2004

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D. Bell "Imzadi" (Olney, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Law and Order: Dead Line (Law & Order (Ibooks)) (Mass Market Paperback)

This was a book I couldn't put down. The plot was intriguing, teaching me a great deal about book publishing. The characters were well-drawn and true to the television series. If I had one caveat, it would be that there's a slight imbalance in the elements of the plot--instead of being 50-50 between the detectives and the district attorneys, it's maybe 60-40. I found myself wondering when we'd see Jack & Serena. As we know so little about Serena's private life, the last chapter provided some refreshing insight. I had been looking forward to this book for a long time, as it had appeared on Amazon with no publishing date. Now I hope another one will be forthcoming soon.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lives Up to the Law & Order Franchise, January 23, 2005

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MZ (Minnesota) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Law and Order: Dead Line (Law & Order (Ibooks)) (Mass Market Paperback)

Purchased this book while on vacation--was browsing through the bookstore's mystery section and it caught my eye, because I'm a fan of the television series. So, let me say, that I felt this book lived up to what I expected of it--it was like reading an episode of Law & Order. Now, to the typical mystery reader, this may not be a good thing.

If you are not familiar with the series, you should know before reading this book that the mystery does not follow a neat and clear path (and I'm not giving anything away by saying this...I'm just generalizing the series, honest). And, only part of the book is the mystery of whodunnit; the rest is the cops and lawyers putting together their case. So, if you're not an L&O watcher, be prepared for more details than the ordinary off-the-shelf murder mystery.

Now, if you ARE a fan of the series, you will be pleased to know that the characters we know and love are drawn out, I felt, exactly as they are in the show. I could practically hear Lennie Briscoe's punchy remarks and Ed Green's computer know-how in the dialogue (Green even "Googles" something or other). Serena Southerlyn, Arthur Branch, Anita Van Buren, Emil Skoda, and--my favorite--Jack McCoy are perfectly portrayed as well. In fact, this is the best part of the novel, watching these characters interact. Because there is actually even MORE there than in the TV show. You get a few side glimpses into the characters, like McCoy's womanizing behavior when it comes to his assistant DAs, and you hear Southerlyn's thoughts as a suspect eyes her legs. This is more than what you get on the show, when the dialogue is all you have to go on.

For this reason, I know Law & Order viewers will enjoy this book. But I don't think you need to like the show to like the book. The storyline is solid. It's not world-class literature. But I didn't expect it to be so.

I hope I come across more Law & Order books. This one was gripping. I can't say that about many other books based on TV.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Solid mystery!, July 4, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Law and Order: Dead Line (Law & Order (Ibooks)) (Mass Market Paperback)

This book was an agreeable surprise. No flimsy, paper-thin typical tv tie-in plot here! Instead, it offers an intriguing mystery investigation and lots of surprises in the courtroom. I thought it followed the format of the show pretty well,and Davis replicates the dialogue of some of the characters exactly on the mark. There's plenty of insiderism about the seamier side of book publishing, as well. In fact, the farther the story progressed, the more it held my interest. And at the end, I couldn't put it down. Law & Order fans will probably love it,no matter what, but anyone who enjoys a good courtroom mystery should give it a try.