When 2018 rolled around, I made a New Year’s Resolution to get back into reading. My goal: I wanted to read 300 books during 2018. So far, I’ve managed to read 30 books, so… I’m a bit off the pace I set for myself.
Regardless, I’ve managed to read (and re-read) some great books so far this year. One of those is Jeffrey Deaver‘s fourteenth Lincoln Rhyme book, The Cutting Edge. Like most, I became aware of Deaver with the movie The Bone Collector, starring Denzel Washington (as Lincoln Rhyme) and Angelina Jolie (as Amelia Sachs), based on his book of the same name. Deaver is a masterful storyteller, and I burned through his books as fast as I could (2001’s The Blue Nowhere is my all-time favorite). One of the best parts of Deaver’s writing is his ability to keep you guessing right up to the end.
In The Cutting Edge, Rhyme and Sachs, who are now married, return to confront a killer in Manhattan’s Diamond District who is terrorizing couples during their happiest moment. With multiple twists and turns, The Cutting Edge weaves together Deaver’s incredible story that had me holding my breath as I turned each page.
My only complaint, and I don’t really consider it a complaint, it’s more of a personal preference, is Mr. Deaver’s writing is very detailed, intricate, and sometimes a little too complicated; which tends to slow down the pace of the story.
The Cutting Edge is a superbly written and suspenseful police procedural.
Note from Jay Bishop: I received an Advance Reading Copy (ARC) of The Cutting Edge from Grand Central Publishing and NetGalley.
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