I’ve just fin­ished The Stone Mon­key by Jef­fery Deaver. Another great Lin­coln Rhyme book. I found the feel of this one to be con­sid­er­ably less ‘dark’ than the earlier ones. Some­how, des­pite the vil­lain being as bad or worse than earlier vil­lains, the book just didn’t seem as scary.
Hav­ing said that though, it was a good read.
I love the atten­tion to detail you get in this type of story (essen­tially a forensic sci­ence detect­ive novel in the tra­di­tion of many other from Sher­lock Holmes onwards), although some of the bril­liant insights/leaps of logic were presen­ted in the ‘wrong’ order: Lin­coln stud­ies evid­ence, Lin­coln says “Oh! Wait a minute…”, cut to Amelia about to walk into danger, there’s a phone call or another detect­ive turns up to save the day, fol­lowed by explan­a­tion of how Lin­coln figured it out. This happened at least three times in this book, and to me it came across as it bit too for­mula.
Not as good as the earlier books, but still recommended.