The Sleeping Doll

Title: The Sleeping Doll
Author: Jeffery Deaver
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group

To be frank, I am disappointed with this book. I first started reading Deaver with The Bone Collector, and got hooked on the series featuring Lincoln Rhyme. But this new offering? I think its lame or as some reviewer puts it - a piece of ham!

Well, I can see it being translated into a Hollywood film - its has all the ingredients, - the brave heroine, the car chase, bombs and gun fires, the villain (modeled after Charles Manson no less, but Manson's crimes were far more heinous!), the obvious twist (I am barely able to say it surprise me at all...). But somehow, it does not have the depth or intelligence of Deaver's earlier works featuring Rhyme.