Review: Well done
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 19, 2013
I have read most of the novels featuring forensic investigator Lincoln Rhyme, a former NYC detective who became a quadriplegic in a case gone bad, but whose mind remains razor sharp. His mantra is that nothing matters besides physical evidence. But here the murderer puts Rhyme's methodology to a severe test by flooding the murder scene with lots of extraneous evidence to try to conceal the evidence that really matters. However the indomitable Rhyme finds a way to deal with this.This is well written, filled with Deaver's trademark twists, and has a clever but not predictable plot. This is actually too long to be considered a short story (and is certainly much longer than any of the three short stories in Deaver's Twisted, which is excellent), and is more akin to a novella. But the label doesn't matter because this was very entertaining to read.