How do you feel Lincoln and Amelia’s relationship has grown? I went back and looked at a couple of those books and. There were more surprises, but they were haphazard, and I didn’t sell many of those. It’s all planned out ahead of time, and I’ve seen how it has improved my writing.

A book is a product of the mind, but it’s a product nonetheless. I call myself a manufacturer of a product. It’d be difficult to outline and research two books at the same time, but it’s pretty easy for me to structure one story and edit prose for another one. I do a book a year, and over the last five years, I’ve also done two books for a short story collection, which involves four or five original stories or novellas. What’s your process like? How many books are you working on at once? Are you outlining one book while editing another? That’s really the point of what’s going on in this book.Īlso read: Sequel to Denzel Washington Thriller ‘Equalizer’ Moves Forward as Sony Brings Back Writer Richard Wenk (Exclusive)

So it finally came time to put that subplot to bed so we can move on. I came back to it after five or six books, so part of it was resolved, but there were still aspects that were not. The core of the crime was solved and the bad guy was caught, but I left open a subplot. When I finished “The Bone Collector,” I left the story open. I spend about eight months outlining the story from start to finish before I write a single word of the prose, and I do the same thing for the arc of the entire series. I was called “manipulative” by a journalist some years ago, which I took as a compliment.

What made you want to revisit that case and why was now the right time in the Lincoln Rhyme series to write a direct sequel to that book? It’s been 17 years since “The Bone Collector” was published. “The Bone Collector” was turned into a feature film in 1999 starring Denzel Washington as quadriplegic forensic detective Rhyme and an up-and-coming actress named Angelina Jolie as his partner-turned-lover Amelia Sachs.ĭeaver, who resides primarily in Chapel Hill, N.C., recently took a break from writing bestselling crime novels to pen the James Bond book “Carte Blanche.” The award-winner and former journalist spoke to TheWrap about the Lincoln Rhyme series, his writing process, the current state of journalism and who he’d like to see don Bond’s tuxedo.Īlso read: Jesse Eisenberg on Life as a Writer, Teaming With Kristen Stewart and Why ‘Social Network’ Fame Was ‘Disconcerting’ Seventeen years after Jeffery Deaver published “The Bone Collector,” the bestselling author has written a direct sequel titled “The Skin Collector.” It marks the 11th novel in the popular Lincoln Rhyme series - excluding a 2013 short story that was released as a Kindle Single.

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