WRITER

Jeffery Deaver

1950 - Today

Jeffery Deaver

Jeffery Deaver (born May 6, 1950) is an American mystery and crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a J.D. degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist. He later practiced law before embarking on a career as a novelist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jeffery Deaver has received more than 785,068 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Jeffery Deaver is the 1,560th most popular writer (down from 1,214th in 2019), the 1,916th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,515th in 2019) and the 169th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

790k
Page Views (PV)
58.17
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
24
Languages Editions (L)
6.85
Effective Languages (L*)
2.12
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Garden of Beasts

Criminals, Fiction, Assassins

2004

Twisted

American Detective and mystery stories, Short stories

2003

The vanished man

Police, Lincoln Rhyme (Fictitious character), Fiction

2003

The Stone Monkey

Police, Lincoln Rhyme (Fictitious character), Fiction

Lincoln and Amelia are recruited to track down a cargo ship carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants, as well as the notorious human smuggler and killer known as the Ghost. But when the capture goes disastrously wrong, Lincoln and Amelia find themselves in a race to stop the Ghost before he can track down and murder the two surviving families who have vanished deep into the labyrinthine world of New York City's Chinese community. Over the next forty-eight hours the Ghost ruthlessly hunts for the families while Rhyme, aided by a policeman from mainland China, struggles to find them before they die and Sachs pursues a very different kind of policework - forming a connection with one of the immigrants that may have consequences going to the core of her relationship with her partner and lover, Lincoln Rhyme.

2002

The Cold Moon

Police, Lincoln Rhyme (Fictitious character), Fiction

On a freezing December night, with a full moon hovering in the black sky over New York City, two people are brutally murdered -- the death scenes marked by eerie, matching calling cards: moon-faced clocks investigators fear ticked away the victims' last moments on earth. Renowned criminologist Lincoln Rhyme immediately identifies the clock distributor and has the chilling realization that the killer -- who has dubbed himself the Watchmaker -- has more murders planned in the hours to come. Rhyme, a quadriplegic long confined to his wheelchair, immediately taps his trusted partner and longtime love, Amelia Sachs, to walk the grid and be his eyes and ears on the street. But Sachs has other commitments now -- namely, her first assignment as lead detective on a homicide of her own. As she struggles to balance her pursuit of the infuriatingly elusive Watchmaker with her own case, Sachs unearths shocking revelations about the police force that threaten to undermine her career, her sense of self and her relationship with Rhyme. As the Rhyme-Sachs team shows evidence of fissures, the Watchmaker is methodically stalking his victims and planning a diabolical criminal masterwork.... Indeed, the Watchmaker may be the most cunning and mesmerizing villain Rhyme and Sachs have ever encountered.

2006

The Twelfth Card

Murder for hire, Detective and mystery stories, Police

2005