Short description
Number One bestseller Jeffery Deaver returns with a new Kathryn Dance thriller
Kayleigh Towne is a beautiful and successful singer-songwriter, and Edwin Sharp is her biggest fan. When she replies to one of his fan letters with 'XO', Edwin is convinced she loves him, and that her latest hit song 'Your Shadow' was written for him.
Long description
XO: A Kathryn Dance Thriller
Nothing Kayleigh or her lawyers can say persuades him otherwise. Then the singer gets an anonymous phone call; it's the first verse of 'Your Shadow' playing. Soon after, one of the crew is horribly murdered. Kayleigh's friend Kathryn Dance, a special agent with the California Bureau of Investigation, knows that stalking crimes are not one-off occurrences, and, sure enough, more verses of the song are played as warnings of death to follow. With a little help from forensic criminalist Lincolyn Rhyme, Dance must use her kinesic and investigative skills in an attempt to find the killer before more people die. Deaver has written the actual song, 'Your Shadow'. Readers will be able to download it from www.jefferydeaver.com.
Review
'Excellent ... plenty of surprises and red herrings' -- Publishers Weekly, starred review 'The most creative, skilled and intriguing thriller writer in the world ... [Deaver] has produced a stunning series of bestsellers with unique characterisation, intelligent characters, beguiling plots and double-barrelled and sometimes triple-barrelled solutions.' -- Daily Telegraph 'The pace is terrific, the suspense inexorable, and there is an excellent climax ... If you want thrills, Deaver is your man.' -- Guardian 'Jeffery Deaver is grand master of the ticking-clock thriller.' -- Kathy Reichs 'One of the world's best plotters - his intricate twists and turns catch out even the hardened thriller reader ... This is a true master at work - elegant, assured, supremely crafted thriller writing at its very best' -- Daily Mail 'The twists and turns of Deaver's plot leave lesser authors eating his dust.' -- Sunday Herald Sun 'Deaver fans will relish XO's swift pace and the supreme, origami-like twists of its plot, and will note with approval a cameo from the author's more famous creation, the quadriplegic criminal psychologist Lincoln Rhyme'. -- The Age 'For suspense, leave it to Deaver.' -- The Weekend Gold Coast Bulletin 'Deaver at his forensic best.' -- The Courier Mail 'Leaves lesser thriller writers eating his dust.' -- The Sunday Mail 'The grand master of the thriller genre has done it again with a ripping new Kathryn Dance novel.' -- The Weekly 'The twists and turns of Deaver's plot leaves lesser authors eating his dust.' -- Sunday Telegraph
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