'Jeffery Deaver is still top of the tree, as his new novel, The Burning Wire, pleasurably reaffirms. Deaver remains as adept at keeping our pulses at an accelerated rate with quite as much assurance as he demonstrated in his earlier books (and his grand tally of novels is approaching thirty). The new book carefully and skilfully puts into place all the touches that have made the Lincoln Rhyme series so popular, and Deaver ensures his narrative is au fait with technology (always a strong suit of his books – there’s a lot of it in this one, be warned).

The citizens of New York are under attack, with the electricity grid being controlled to grim criminal ends. Hideous, electricity-induced death is raining down, and the natural assumption is that it is the work of terrorists. The CIA and the FBI are pursuing this avenue, but quadriplegic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme (Deaver’s long-term protagonist) is studying the forensic evidence, helped (as usual) by the resourceful Amelia Sachs and a talented team (among its number, FBI agent Fred Dellray). The attacks, Rhyme realises, are not terror-inspired, but the work of a brilliant criminal, whose manipulation of electricity in all its forms will give Rhyme and his co. their biggest ever headache.

Storytelling of a compelling order is the name of the game here, with suspenseful revelations hitting the reader at calculated intervals. And along with the crack use of narrative technique, there's the usual on-the-hoof, economical characterisation for Lincoln Rhyme and his team; just enough to make us think this is not somewhere we’ve been before.'

Library sale.

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Reading now. It is a good crime story with an interesting angle (murder weapon). My first book with this author, but it will probably be more.

Posted to Finland today :-)

The book arrived today, thank you so much ankaca! Jeffery Deaver is my favourite author.

Picked up at the local BC meet. I was hesitating over this, but when Nadezda started to describe the main characters her first words reminded me that I have read one of these, and liked it. Thank you!

I was happy enough to read this, even if the demonisation of electricity was a bit much at times. Power is dangerous, lots of power can be very dangerous, yes. As a horror effect it was contrived. Anything goes in the fierce competition for a shocking and novel murder weapon? Also, threat and tension are built up in a carefully calculated way that made the story feel a bit mechanical to me. But maybe I was just out of step.

I'm still game for more books about Lincoln Rhyme. Thank you Nadezda and all!

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Took this home from our BC meet-up. Although a bit bulky in size, I'll have a go with this since the first pages were entertaining enough.

EDIT: I definitely enjoyed the beginning of the book, but then there was an overflow of characters and I just couldn't keep up. Will let this travel again!

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Leftovers form the BC-table at the street festival. Will continue its journey to the BC Summer Meeting in Tampere next weekend.

Caught this book at the Summer 2012 Bookcrossing Meet-up in Tampere. This book will be on its way to Gambia via Sirah's charity container. Happy reading to new readers!

This book goes to build a school library in Gambia. Happy reading!