Solitude Creek (Kathryn Dance Book 4)
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Solitude Creek (Kathryn Dance Book 4)

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"Outstanding...the endgame remains in doubt to the end. Deaver proves himself a grandmaster of the genre as each surprise leads to an even bigger surprise, like a series of reverse Russian nesting dolls."― Publishers Weekly -- Starred Review on The Skin Collector "Chillingly effective...Jeffery Deaver's quadriplegic detective has never been better...Equal parts Marathon Man and top-notch political thriller, this is Deaver at the top of his game. Rhyme remains the most original hero in thriller fiction today who may have met his match in Swann. Not to be missed."― Providence Sunday Journal on The Kill Room "This is Deaver at his very best and not to be missed by any thriller fan."― Publisher's Weekly (starred review) on The Kill Room - A "Best Summer Book of 2013" "Deaver's infernal puzzle mysteries invariably inspire words like devious, diabolical, and devilish, all of which apply to XO . It's Dance's toughest case, and one of Deaver's best books."― The New York Times Book Review on XO "Deaver's excellent third novel featuring Kathryn Dance...[is] sure to please fans."― Publishers Weekly (starred review) on XO "Written with Deaver's usual keen eye for dialogue and character and featuring his customary right-angle plot twists, the novel will be a sure-fire hit."― Booklist on XO --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. Jeffery Deaver is the New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels, three collections of short stories, and a nonfiction law book. His books are sold in 150 countries and translated into twenty-five languages. His novels have won the Nero Wolfe Award, three Ellery Queen Readers' Awards, a British Thumping Good Read Award, and the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and Short Story Dagger awards from the British Crime Writers' Association. A former journalist, folksinger, and attorney, he was born outside of Chicago and has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University. January LaVoy , winner of numerous Earphones Awards for narration, is an American actress best known for her character Noelle Ortiz on the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live . In addition to working extensively in narration and television, including roles on Law & Order and All My Children , she has worked on and off Broadway as well as in regional theater. --This text refers to the audioCD edition. Deaver is a genius...The cat and mouse elements of this story are Deaver at his best. -- "Huffington Post" Deaver once again satisfies with this exciting entry. His fans won't be disappointed, and readers looking for a new thriller series will enjoy making Kathryn's acquaintance. -- "Library Journal" Narrator January LaVoy excels in her timing, pacing, and sensitivity to the myriad subtleties in the story. She delivers children's voices of both genders extraordinarily well, and the wide array of adult characters allows ample scope for her ability to develop multiple voices for the complex dialogue. Her Hispanic thugs are especially well done. LaVoy is so good as the lead that listeners will want her to be the voice of Kathryn Dance in all future publications. -- "AudioFile" Numerous surprises are in store for Kathryn Dance (and the reader) in bestseller Deaver's stellar fourth novel featuring the California Bureau of Investigation kinesics expert. Deaver's...thrillers are as good as they come. -- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)" One of Deaver's most diabolical villains. -- "New York Times Book Review" Riveting...[Deaver] is definitely the Master of Suspense. -- "Crimespree magazine"Chillingly effective...Jeffery Deaver's quadriplegic detective has never been better...Equal parts Marathon Man and top-notch political thriller, this is Deaver at the top of his game. Rhyme remains the most original hero in thriller fiction today who may have met his match in Swann. Not to be missed.-- "Providence Sunday Journal on The Kill Room "Deaver's excellent third novel featuring Kathryn Dance...[is] sure to please fans.-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review) on XO"Deaver's infernal puzzle mysteries invariably inspire words like devious, diabolical, and devilish, all of which apply to XO . It's Dance's toughest case, and one of Deaver's best books.-- "The New York Times Book Review on XO"Outstanding...the endgame remains in doubt to the end. Deaver proves himself a grandmaster of the genre as each surprise leads to an even bigger surprise, like a series of reverse Russian nesting dolls.-- "Publishers Weekly -- Starred Review on The Skin Collector"This is Deaver at his very best and not to be missed by any thriller fan.-- "Publisher's Weekly (starred review) on The Kill Room - A Best Summer Book of 2013"Written with Deaver's usual keen eye for dialogue and character and featuring his customary right-angle plot twists, the novel will be a sure-fire hit.-- "Booklist on XO" --This text refers to the audioCD edition. Read more

Features & Highlights

  • Jeffery Deaver, "the master of manipulation" (
  • Associated Press
  • ) and "the most creative, skilled and intriguing thriller writer in the world." (
  • Daily Telegraph
  • , UK) returns with the new, long-awaited, Kathryn Dance thriller.
  • A tragedy occurs at a small concert venue on the Monterey Peninsula. Cries of "fire" are raised and, panicked, people run for the doors, only to find them blocked. A half dozen people die and others are seriously injured. But it's the panic and the stampede that killed them; there was no fire. Kathryn Dance--a brilliant California Bureau of Investigation agent and body language expert--discovers that the stampede was caused intentionally and that the perpetrator, a man obsessed with turning people's own fears and greed into weapons, has more attacks planned. She and her team must race against the clock to find where he will strike next before more innocents die.

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I'm not angry. Really.

I've read other Deaver books and liked some, so I bought this one. I don't know if he was rushed, or this was ghost-written, or what other excuse may be in the works, but this book is a disaster. Every character is compared to a popular actor instead of being thoughtfully described. "He looked like so and so." "She resembles that actress so and so." Nearly every character speaks in incomplete sentences. "What I'm saying." "How that is." "Thought that." One character with that trait to build his personality, fine. A whole population that speaks like that for an entire book? Irritating and not relatable. The punctuation is so bad it's hard to read. There'll be pages at a time with no commas where there should be commas and then suddenly there are pages at a time with so many commas where they don't belong your brain is pausing in mid-sentence three times per line and it's hard to get through a thought. The plot is implausible and is supported by what appears to be a trivial amount of research on police work and forensics. Then at about 60% of the way through, a character who is supposed to be a computer genius and expert hacker is thinking something through in his head he wishes he could program to solve an issue in his personal life. It's written out with HTML body and paragraph tags. Maybe that won't annoy people who don't code, but the thought that a programmer could think in a web display language instead of one that can actually do calculations when the point is a calculation is like trying to paint with a pencil. If you don't understand your own character, leave it out. Why make your own character incompetent? It was the final insult, after many, to my suspended disbelief. I deleted the book without finishing it. I think I've done that with three books in my whole life, and I read about 20 books a year. So, if you like a world where nothing makes sense, nobody understands their jobs, and everyone is functionally illiterate but lucky enough to resemble a Hollywood actor, maybe this is the book for you. Otherwise, save your money.
15 people found this helpful
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Just average at best

Not thrilled with this one. I like Deaver's writing and have read just about everything, including other novels with Dance as lead character. This one seems to involve her ENTIRE family, a strange obsessed killer, her old flame, a drug cartel, and rogue cops!!

For me, it just doesn't ring true. I understand the complexities of life and how personal matters sometimes conflict with professions, and how juggling it all can be crazy at times, but it all wraps up much too conveniently for me.

Although Deaver uses many devices to lead us in one direction before deftly doing a 180, I just didn't think much of the plausibility overall.

For other readers, it might be, "Boy, I didn't see that coming at all!", but for me it was ,"OK. Ho-Hum."
10 people found this helpful
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Did Deaver really write this?

I'm a big Deaver fan but this book makes me wonder if he really wrote it. It is so unlike him and so uninteresting that I couldn't force myself to finish it. I was a third of the way through and decided it wasn't worth the struggle. I put it down and moved on to something else and never looked back. Me. Deaver, another like this and I'm out of your world for good. Sorry y'all, but there are too many good reads to waste my time on this.
8 people found this helpful
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deaver return to your roots!!!

I am such a long time Deaver fan. His plots were intricate and intriguing. Twists and turns that were not resolved until last page. What a deep disappointment solitude creek was. Multiple unrelated plots. Writing choppy (probably ghost written). One didn't give a whit about characters. Not worth the read.
7 people found this helpful
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Deaver Sells Out

Jeffery Deaver seems to have become the new James Patterson... he puts his name on work written by someone else. If not that, then he has suffered a stroke or some other debilitating condition. I couldn't get through XO, abandoning it after one and a half chapters. That book was written for a Middle School Teeny Bopper. Solitude Creek was written for that teeny bopper's slightly older sister. There were some storylines which were never completed (the incidence with Wes, for example.) Much of the story was told with absolutely ZERO foreshadowing or build-up for what transpired later. The main plot line was Kathryn's Love Life. Like, wow, who cares, man?? (That was me getting into the Valley Girl person this book sought as it's audience....) I read the whole thing this time, as opposed to XO, but I could have dumped it after the first chapter and not suffered any angst over the decision. Avoid this book. And shame on you Jeffery Deaver, you used to be SO much better an author.
7 people found this helpful
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Best Book For An Insomniac

This has to be the most boring book ever written. It has it's usages though. When I can't fall asleep, all I have to do is look at it on the table and I start to drift off. Really! I don't even have to open it up. There is so much God awful conversations about nothing, descriptions that go no where, and everybody's personal relationships - it is just endless. I recommend readers of this book for a distinguished service medal - but they have to have actually finished it. Of course I'm only up to 30% and she (Dancer) is still going on about her boy friend - and on about her boy friend and her daughter's recital. I wonder what happened to the plot, is it about her personal life. Jeez no wonder I don't care.
6 people found this helpful
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I expect more from Deaver

This book has all the expected Jeffery Deaver trademarks....a compelling story, difficult to put down, and unexpected twists and turns. However, it also has all of the cringe-worthy cliches of recent Deaver novels: a comic book style super villain, describing characters by saying they look like celebrities (Channing Tatum, Cate Blanchett, a couple others I can't recall right now), and the annoying way that anyone in law enforcement who contradicts Kathryn Dance (or Lincoln Rhyme, in the other series) is always proven wrong in the long run. And this one beats the reader over the head with that last one.

I have always been a huge Deaver fan, counting him among my favorite authors. But, as another reviewer stated, this book was somewhat disappointing. The side storyline involving the racist graffiti was almost laughable.

But, if you put these annoyances aside, this was still an enjoyable read. And Deaver has mastered the art of writing a narrative that you just never want to stop reading until you reach the end. But please, Jeffery....just describe your characters. Don't tell the reader that your characters look like flavor of the month celebrities. I would rather paint my own pictures in my mind.
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Who wrote this?

I've read many of Mr. Deaver's books, including at least a couple featuring Kathryn Dance, and I enjoyed them all, which is why I was willing to cough up the outrageous amount of money that the publishers charge for pixels these days. But I have to wonder, since all of his other books have been so tight, so thrilling, so engrossing, if he actually wrote this one. It feels like there might have been an uncredited ghost writer. Alas, I'm unable to finish this one. It will be a long time before I spend money on a Deaver book again. In fact, I'll probably never buy another.
5 people found this helpful
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Horribly insipid lead character

Horribly insipid lead character! Goody tow-shoes cop. Too good to believe. Way too much time spent on the perfect-in-every-way Kathryn Dance and her family. Only intriguing twist in the family storyline has the rug pulled out at the end and becomes the oh-too-perfect-saccharine ending. Never again for me.
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Deaver always comes through with a great story.

I enjoy Jeffrey Deaver's books a great deal. Her always keeps me guessing till the last page. Also his characters are fascinating and real and flawed. Also I just finished The October List a thriller written in reverse and it is a brilliant take on the genre.
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