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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 his award-winning, spine-tingling stories of suspense -- stories that will widen your eyes and stretch your imagination. The Twisted stories include Without Jonathan, The Weekender, For Services Rendered, Eye to Eye, Beautiful, The Fall Guy, Triangle, and The Christmas Present which brings back Jeffery Deaver's most beloved character -- criminalist Lincoln Rhyme -- to solve a chilling Christmastime disappearance. Diverse, provocative, eerie and inspired, this collection of Jeffery Deaver's best stories exhibits the amazing range and signature plot twists that have earned him the title "master of ticking-bomb suspense" by People. With nods to O. Henry and Edgar Allan Poe, these beautifully crafted pieces pulse with subtle intrigue and Deaver's incomparable imagination.
Series: Twisted
Audio CD
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio; Unabridged edition (December 2, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0743536401
ISBN-13: 978-0743536400
Product Dimensions: 5 x 1 x 6 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (98 customer reviews)
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Even though I have read several novels by Jeffrey Deaver, I had never come across any of his short stories and it was a nice surprise to discover the high quality of this collection. Most stories are superb, and since I have not read any of them before I was delighted with the book. But it is only fair to warn those people who have read short stories by this author in the past, because there is only one story that has not been published before. The new story, "The Christmas Present", is the one I liked less in the whole book. It seems that the author (or someone at the publishing house) had the idea to introduce a new story when there was not sufficient time left to maintain the level of quality. The story is considerable worse than any of the others. It looks as if Deaver had run out of ideas and decided to use his "usual" characters, Rhyme and Sachs, in a failed attempt to salvage the task.The author explains in the introduction the difference between a novel and a short story, besides length, describing the short story as a "genre" in which the writer is authorized to "cheat" the reader. According to Deaver, in a novel the reader spends time and emotional energy in getting to know the characters, and therefore, it would be unfair to present an unpleasant ending. But in a short story "all bets are off" and the author will do everything in his power to shock the reader, leaving him/her awed and going back in the story to see if it is really possible that he/she assumed facts that weren't really there. This is why the title "Twisted" fits the theme of the stories extremely well.For those of you that have read Deaver's short stories in the past and are not sure if it is worthwhile to buy this book here is a list of the stories with a brief description:1.
Twisted: Selected Unabridged Stories of Jeffery Deaver Selected Shorts: New American Stories (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) TWISTED SERIAL KILLERS. True Stories of Sick Serial Killers: Serial Killers & Psychopaths. Serial Killer Collection. More Twisted: Collected Stories, Vol. II Ulysses S. Grant : Memoirs and Selected Letters : Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant / Selected Letters, 1839-1865 (Library of America) Selected Shorts: Food Fictions (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) Selected Shorts: Baseball (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) Selected Shorts: Lots of Laughs! (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (v. XVIII) Moby Dick [UNABRIDGED Audiobook] (Recorded Books Unabridged Classics) Minority Report and Other Stories (Unabridged Stories) The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour (Unabridged Selections from The Frontier Stories, Volume Two) The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: Unabridged Selections from The Frontier Stories: Volume 3 The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: Unabridged Selections from The Frontier Stories: Volume II: What Gold Does to a Man: The Ghosts of Buckskin Run: The Drift: No Man's Mesa A Whole New World: A Twisted Tale Wicked Takes the Witness Stand: A Tale of Murder and Twisted Deceit in Northern Michigan Serafina and the Twisted Staff (A Serafina Novel) Would You Rather...? Terrifically Twisted: Over 300 Crazy Questions! Twisted True Tales From Science: Disaster Discoveries Twisted True Tales From Science: Insane Inventors Twisted True Tales From Science: Explosive Experiments
