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Twisted: The Collected Stories of Jeffery Deaver

New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver has long thrilled fans with tales of masterful villains and their nefarious ways, and the brilliant minds who bring them to justice. Now the author of the Lincoln Rhyme series has collected for the first time his award-winning, spine-tingling stories of suspense stories that will widen your eyes and stretch your imagination.

Bloody River Blues

Hollywood location scout John Pellam thought the backwater town of Maddox, Missouri, would be perfect for an upcoming Bonnie and Clyde-style film. But real bullets leave two people dead and one cop paralyzed. Now the feds and local police want him to talk. Mob enforcers want him silenced. And a mysterious blonde just wants him.

The Sleeping Doll

Special Agent Kathryn Dance -- introduced in The Cold Moon -- stars in the latest thriller from New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver. When Special Agent Kathryn Dance is sent to interrogate the convicted killer Daniel ''Son of Manson'' Pell as a suspect in a newly unearthed crime, she feels both trepidation and electrifying intrigue. Pell is serving a life sentence for brutal murders years earlier that mirrored those perpetrated by Charles Manson in the 1960s. But Pell and his cult members left behind a survivor who -- because she was in bed hidden by her toys -- was dubbed the Sleeping Doll.

The Stone Monkey: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel

The FBI and the Immigration and Naturalization Service hire Lincoln Rhyme, a criminologist paralyzed from the neck down, and his protégée, Amelia Sachs, to find the human smuggler and killer known as The Ghost. The two enter into the labyrinthine world of New York City's Chinatown, where their attempt to capture The Ghost goes disastrously wrong!

The Blue Nowhere: A Novel

Here is a truly stunning tale of suspense for the computer age. A sadistic cyberspace hacker, code-named Phate, infiltrates computers and invades lives. Wyatt Gillette, imprisoned for hacking, fervently attempts to trace Phate, who delivers a huge blow, murdering an internet pioneer. The search now takes on a zealous intensity.

The Coffin Dancer: A Novel

Detective Lincoln Rhyme, the foremost criminalist in the NYPD, is on the hunt for an elusive murderer, the Coffin Dancer. He's a brilliant hit man who changes his appearance even faster than he adds to his trail of victims, only one of whom has lived long enough to offer a clue: the assassin has an eerie tattoo on his arm of the Grim Reaper waltzing with a woman in front of a casket.

The Vanished Man: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel

It begins at a prestigious music school in New York City. A killer flees the scene of a homicide and locks himself in a classroom. Within minutes, the police have him surrounded. When a scream rings out, followed by a gunshot, they break down the door. The room is empty. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to help with the high-profile investigation. For the ambitious Sachs, solving the case could earn her a promotion. For the quadriplegic Rhyme, it means relying on his protégée to ferret out a master illusionist they've dubbed 'the conjurer', who baits them with gruesome murders that become more diabolical with each fresh crime.