A Maiden's Grave

Deaver knits a seamless fabric of tightening tension right up to the explosive double whammy ending - The Times

A real chiller, seething with violence and heart-stopping tension - Sunday Telegraph

A gripping, emotional descent into the mind of evil - Anthony Gallagher, Waterstone’s

Tension-packed pages take the thriller to a new dimension - Doris Mousdale, Whitcoulls, New Zealand

An authentic and gripping hostage drama - Toby Wrigley, Book League, South Africa

Riveting and sensitively handled - New Woman

Jeffery Deaver is the award-winning author of two collections of short stories and 29 internationally bestselling novels, including the latest James Bond novel Carte Blanche. He is best known for his Lincoln Rhyme thrillers, which include the number one bestsellers The Vanished Man, The Twelfth Card and The Cold Moon, as well as The Bone Collector which was made into a feature film starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. The first Kathryn Dance novel, The Sleeping Doll, was published in 2007 to enormous acclaim.

A three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader’s Award for Best Short Story of the year, he has been nominated for an Anthony Award and six Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America. He won the WH Smith Thumping Good Read Award in 2001 and in 2004 won the Crime Writers’ Association Steel Dagger for Best Thriller with Garden of Beasts, and their Short Story Dagger for The Weekender from Twisted.

Jeffery Deaver lives in North Carolina and California.