As for my personal reading, I started The Empty Chair by Jeffery Deaver the other day. I was really, really hoping it would be good, as I took a chance and bought eight of his novels (and one short story collection) at a library book sale based on the fact that the back cover blurbs seemed interesting. (I'd never heard of him before and had never read anything of his.) So if this first book of his (and by that I mean the earliest-published of the ones I picked up) was no good, it would be a poor indicator of the quality of my purchases.
Fortunately, this is quite good. It's apparently not the first book of his to feature the main character, a quadriplegic profiler with a red-haired female NYC detective (I keep picturing her as a taller Dana Scully) as his hands and eyes in the field and a full-time male nurse taking care of him. This novel features them trying to track down two young women taken by a crazy teen in South Carolina with an unhealthy obsession with insects, hopefully before he has a chance to kill them.
Johnathan
Fortunately, this is quite good. It's apparently not the first book of his to feature the main character, a quadriplegic profiler with a red-haired female NYC detective (I keep picturing her as a taller Dana Scully) as his hands and eyes in the field and a full-time male nurse taking care of him. This novel features them trying to track down two young women taken by a crazy teen in South Carolina with an unhealthy obsession with insects, hopefully before he has a chance to kill them.
Johnathan