A maiden’s grave | Jeffrey Deaver
I met Jeffrey Deaver at the NYLA conference in Buffalo last fall. He was the featured speaker at the Public Library Section’s Author! Author! event, and is a genuinely nice guy. His take on his career as a writer was entertaining, the audience was made up of mostly serious fans, so I came away with a mission. I’d seen the movie of The Bone Collector but had not read any of his books.
This one is a thriller (stand-alone I believe) involving 3 convicts escaped from a federal prison in Kansas, a bus carrying 8 deaf students and two teachers (1 deaf) who they are holding hostage, and the FBI team charged with negotiating the recapture of the convicts/release of the hostages. Very well done, but I would have enjoyed it more if I could have skipped work and read it straight through.That said, I’ve got a couple more Deavers in my queue.

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