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Jeffery Deaver

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When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.


— Jeffery Deaver


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It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.


— Jeffery Deaver


#blood #chase #crime #criminals #harder

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.


— Jeffery Deaver


#frankly #get #living #lot #make

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.


— Jeffery Deaver


#certainly #detective #detective stories #featured #forensic






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Did you know about Jeffery Deaver?

Three of Deaver's novels have been produced into films:
The Bone Collector (1999)
A Maiden's Grave as the TV film Dead Silence (1997)
The Devil's Teardrop (2010) also a TV film
Deaver also created the characters and—in a collaboration with 14 other noted writers—wrote the 17-part serial thriller The Chopin Manuscript narrated by Alfred Molina that was broadcast on Audible. One of his books The Blue Nowhere features criminal hackers (one using social engineering to commit murder) as well as a law enforcement computer crime unit. He has been awarded the Steel Dagger and Short Story Dagger from the British Crime Writers' Association and the Nero Wolfe Award and he is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story of the Year and a winner of the British Thumping Good Read Award.

His novels have appeared on bestseller lists around the world including The New York Times The Times Italy's Corriere della Sera The Sydney Morning Herald and The Los Angeles Times. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist.

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