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Suspense Novelist Jeffrey Deavers, Author Biographies
Best Selling Novelist Jeffrey Wilds Deaver was created May 6,1950 near Chicago, Illinois in Glen Ellen. Jeffrey's dad was an advertising copywriter (hmm, does writing run in the household?) and his mom was a homemaker.

Even as a kid, Jeffrey was interested in books and writing. Getting a Job started his first book when he was only 11. He says he has always had an extremely vivid imagination.

Jeffrey earned a Bachelor of Literature degree at the University of Missouri. He worked as a journalist for a magazine before graduating from Fordham University of Law. While working in a big Wall Street law firm, Jeffrey began writing suspense novels. He started writing regular in 1990.

Jeffrey writes fast paced plot driven novels. His books are filled complex twists and surprises. He says that his goal in writing is for pure entertain value. He says,"My job is to scare people and I'll do whatever needs doing to seize them by the lapels in the first chapter and drag them through the book.

Jeffrey also writes poetry and has published collections of short stories. Jeffrey has won several awards for his novels in addition to his short stories. website and Angelina Jolie starred in the hit movie, "The Bone Collector," predicated on Jeffrey's first book in the Lincoln Rhyme novel series.

In July of 2003, Jeffrey appeared in the CBS daytime soap opera, As the World Turns, as a corrupt reporter. He says that rather than a cameo role, which he was expecting, he wound up doing real acting and some stunt work for three days.

Jeffrey makes his home in North Carolina where he and his partner, Madelyn, raise and show Briard dogs. They are actively involved with animal welfare charities. Jeffrey says, "I'll never hurt a kid or an animal in my own books."

Jeffrey includes a younger sister, Julie Reece Deavers, who has published books for young adults.
Asked how his friends would describe him, he says they would say he was generous,
funny and weird.

Bibliography:

Series:

Rune
Manhattan is My Beat (1988)
Death of a Blue CELEB (1990)
Hard News (1991)
John Pellam
Shallow Graves (1992) (writing as William Jefferies)
Bloody River Blues (1993)
Hell's Kitchen (2001)

Lincoln Rhyme
The Bone Collector (1997)
The Coffin Dancer (1998)
The Empty Chair (2000)
The Stone Monkey (2002)
The Vanished Man (2003)
The Twelfth Card (2005)
The Cold Moon (2006)
The Broken Window (2008)

Kathryn Dance
The Sleeping Doll (2007)
Roadside Crosses (2010)

Stand Alone Novels
Always a Thief (1988)
Voodoo (1988)
Mistress of Justice (1992)
The Lesson of Her Death (1993)
Praying for Sleep (1994)
Speaking in Tongues (1995)
A Maiden's Grave (1995)
The Devil's Teardrop: A Novel of the final Night of the Century (1999)
The Blue Now here (2001)
Garden of Beasts (2004)
The Chopin Manuscript: A Serial Killer (2007)
The Bodies Left Behind (2009)
The Burning Wire (2010)
Watchlist: A Serial Killer (2010)

Collections
Twisted: Collected Stories of Jeffery Deaver Vol. 1 (2003)
Nocturne: ALONG WITH OTHER Unabridged Twisted Stories (2004)
More Twisted (2006)

Novellas
A Dish Served Cold (2006)

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