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Title: Twisted : Selected Unabridged Stories of Jeffery Deaver by Michele Pawk, Frederick Weller, Boyd Gaines, Jeffery Deaver ISBN: 0-7435-3639-8 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A treat and another star in Deaver's crown for this
Comment: O.Henryesque anthology of short and yes, very twisted and unique short stories. Each one can stand alone; yet packaged and tied with a bow in this manner, they give the reader a present that opens anew with each and every turn of the page.
If you imagaine that you can outwit this author and surmise what the twist will be, you have another think coming. How versatile Deaver is in his range of scenarios, in his wild and wonderful surprise endings; in his choice of characters and his imaginative prose!
I recommend this collection to anyone who wishes to be entertained, enlightened and absolutely thrilled to the bone. An exciting and memorable read by the author who has easily soared to first place on my list. I had just finished his 'Speaking in Tongues' when I picked up 'Twisted' and was given hours of reading bliss. Don't miss any of Jeffrey Deaver's works; he is truly gifted!
Rating: 5
Summary: TERSE TALES
Comment: Having proven he is one of the masters of modern suspense novels, Deaver digs into some of his short stories for a pleasing sixteen story collection, with twists galore. Although thematically many of them are very similar (particularly the cheating spouse thing), they are all fun and carry their own distorted twists.
WITHOUT JONATHAN - a wife plans to murder husband; THE WEEKENDER - a pharmacy robbery yields unusual results; FOR SERVICES RENDERED - a woman seeks psychiatric help in dealing with her husband's intent to drive her insane; BEAUTIFUL - a woman takes desperate measures to off set a stalker; THE FALL GUY - just who's the fall guy in this one?; EYE TO EYE - a nerd seeks revenge on those who bullied him; TRIANGLE - a man uses a criminologist book to seek justice; ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE when Shakespeare helps out a murderer; GONE FISHING is a real twister with a little girl afraid for her daddy's well being; NOCTURNE is a nifty tale of revenge; LESSER INCLUDED OFFENSE brings justice in a roundabout way; THE BLANK CARD gives a husband reason to suspect his wife's infidelity; THE CHRISTMAS PRESENT is the only new story, a Lincoln Rhyme mystery, with a surprise ending; TOGETHER in which we meet a man with undying devotion; THE WIDOW OF PINE CREEK has a widow seeking help from a handsome stranger to settle her deceasesd husbands business problems; and THE KNEELING SOLDIER finds us again with a stalker and an enterprising young woman.
Deaver knows his craft well, and I think you'll find these stories more consistently entertaining than some other novelists who have ventured here.
Rating: 4
Summary: Deavious
Comment: While he's best known as a novelist, Deaver is a self-confessed fan of The Twilight Zone, as well as Poe and Conan Doyle and O. Henry and Ray Bradbury, and he admits to enjoying short stories because it enables him to "make good bad and bad badder and, most fun of all, really good really bad." You can definitely tell he's having fun in this collection.
Many of these sixteen stories focus not on the detective or forensic scientist, but on the criminal. And yes, most of them are Twisted. Shakespeare acts as a witness in a murder case. A drugstore cowboy kidnaps a champion salesman. A district attorney tries desperately to jail an murderer who has bought and/or intimidated witnesses. A psychiatrist specializing in diseases of the rich thinks he sees a chance to change his own life for the better.
There are twist endings and more than a few twist middles. Insanity real and faked. Double-crosses and triple-crosses and multiple-crosses that would confuse an accountant. Good cops and bad cops, stupid cops and brilliant detectives, organized crime and disorganized crime, professional hitmen and deluded stalkers and unlikely-seeming criminal masterminds. Deaver is justly famed for getting the details of forensic science right in his novels, but he doesn't neglect the characterization of his cops, his crooks, or the victims. His characters aren't monsters, superheroes or spear-carriers: there is only one serial killer story in Twisted, and nearly all of the other crimes happen for reasons that most of us will understand. Lots of perfectly ordinary people planning murders with perfectly ordinary weapons out of perfectly ordinary motives... but almost always with a twist.
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