The Cold Moon
Jeffrey Deaver
“I wanted to read The Cold Moon because it’s a mystery and I love mysteries – any kind; they can be bloody, they can be cerebral – if it’s a mystery, I’m going to pick it up and see if I can read it and enjoy it.
The Cold Moon is about a serial killer, and he’s called “the watchmaker,” and he leaves behind at the sites of his murders a little sort of calling card, as they always call it, of a clock face with sort of – it has a moon – the way it’s described, it’s a moon clock face, and the murders are pretty awful. They take place in New York City, and it’s about the investigation and solving of those crimes.
The central characters are not stereotypes. They’re rich, they’re complex. They – in Cold Moon and I think in the other Lincoln Rhyme novels – I’ve read a couple of them – the central characters are pretty compelling. Give it a solid three.”