Triple Threat

who knows what. The sheriff is a hard-working pro with a conscience and a grandkid who needs particular looking after.
    And the sexy cowgirl with red nails and a feather in her Stetson is exactly the bitch you pretty much knew in your heart she’d turn out to be.

Also by Jeffery Deaver
    The Kill Room*
    XO*/**
    Carte Blanche, a James Bond Novel
    Edge
    The Burning Wire*
    Best American Mystery Stories 2009
(Editor)
    The Watch List
(The Copper Bracelet and The Chopin Manuscript) (Contributor)
    Roadside Crosses**
    The Bodies Left Behind
    The Broken Window*
    The Sleeping Doll**
    More Twisted: Collected Stories,
Volume Two
    The Cold Moon*/**
    The Twelfth Card*
    Garden of Beasts
    Twisted: Collected Stories
    The Vanished Man*
    The Stone Monkey*
    The Blue Nowhere
    The Empty Chair*
    Speaking in Tongues
    The Devil’s Teardrop
    The Coffin Dancer*
    The Bone Collector*
    A Maiden’s Grave
    Praying for Sleep
    The Lesson of Her Death
    Mistress of Justice
    Hard News
    Death of a Blue Movie Star
    Manhattan Is My Beat
    Hell’s Kitchen
    Bloody River Blues
    Shallow Graves
    A Century of Great Suspense Stories
(Editor)
    A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime
(Editor)
    Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
(Introduction)
    *Featuring Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs
    **Featuring Kathryn Dance

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