A review by teresadennis
The Blue Nowhere by Jeffery Deaver

3.0

Deaver certainly knows how to keep you reading. Begin the book with a young woman's murder from her point of view. Set up the investigation with a likable former hacker with a likable plain-as-oatmeal name of Andy Anderson. Then pull a trick from Hitchcock's Psycho bag and have the serial killer Phate kill him. Set the audience up when the killer next targets a lonely boarding school computer prodigy (don't kill him!) followed by an eight-year-old kidnapped for the second time (don't kill her!) and then the new main cop's pregnant wife who's undergoing tests for possible cancer (don't kill her!) Intersperse these with lots of check/checkmate moves by the killer and the hacker working for the police. Okay. It's done so skillfully I didn't even mind being so manipulated, however the ending was so far off the charts the author totally lost me. A secret agent assassin paid by the big internet companies finishes Phate, but shenanigans continue as the partner Shawn turns out to be a super computer capable of devious independent action.

Really? I think not.