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4.0
Was this the seed that sprouted into Lincoln Rhyme?
BLOODY RIVER BLUES is #2 in Deaver’s John Pellam, Hollywood Location Scout, series which he wrote originally under the pseudonym William Jefferies.
John Pellam thought he was walking down the street minding his own business but the organized crime gangland-style execution he happened to witness had different ideas. The resulting carnage included two dead and a policeman paralyzed from the waist down with the FBI and the local constabulary convinced that Pellam was close enough to identify the shooters. Police need him to cooperate while mob enforcers are looking to keep his mouth closed – permanently!
BLOODY RIVER BLUES is a gripping police procedural that weaves together police investigative work, the minutiae of Hollywood film production, the travails of romantic relationships and, most interesting of all, the details of medical and psychological therapy involved with the treatment of injury induced paralysis. Given that BLOODY RIVER BLUES was published in 1993 and THE BONE COLLECTOR, the first instalment in Deaver’s long-running Lincoln Rhyme series, was published in 1998, one has to wonder if this was serving as a dry run for Deaver’s germinating ideas to create a quadriplegic detective character. The similarities were really quite striking.
Highly enjoyable and definitely recommended. It's on to #3 HELL'S KITCHEN.
Paul Weiss
BLOODY RIVER BLUES is #2 in Deaver’s John Pellam, Hollywood Location Scout, series which he wrote originally under the pseudonym William Jefferies.
John Pellam thought he was walking down the street minding his own business but the organized crime gangland-style execution he happened to witness had different ideas. The resulting carnage included two dead and a policeman paralyzed from the waist down with the FBI and the local constabulary convinced that Pellam was close enough to identify the shooters. Police need him to cooperate while mob enforcers are looking to keep his mouth closed – permanently!
BLOODY RIVER BLUES is a gripping police procedural that weaves together police investigative work, the minutiae of Hollywood film production, the travails of romantic relationships and, most interesting of all, the details of medical and psychological therapy involved with the treatment of injury induced paralysis. Given that BLOODY RIVER BLUES was published in 1993 and THE BONE COLLECTOR, the first instalment in Deaver’s long-running Lincoln Rhyme series, was published in 1998, one has to wonder if this was serving as a dry run for Deaver’s germinating ideas to create a quadriplegic detective character. The similarities were really quite striking.
Highly enjoyable and definitely recommended. It's on to #3 HELL'S KITCHEN.
Paul Weiss
wero222's review
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
3.0
It's okay, but nothing more. A little bit confusing. Interesting enough to give it a read
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