I sat down at my desk and ate a pickle spear and a large…

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find…

— Jeffery Deaver

“I realized finally what the problem was,” I told Maree. “It wasn’t him. It was my wife. She was treating him like a normal…

— Jeffery Deaver

“But then someday the truth would come out. It always did. Repress what you will, someday the truth comes out.”

— Jeffery Deaver

“Stanton clawed his way to the bedside table and managed to grab his knife. He jabbed it into Rhyme. Once, twice. But the only…

— Jeffery Deaver

Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want…

— Jeffery Deaver

“You’re sure it was Loving?” “Yes. That’s exactly the kind of strategy he’d choose. There’s no doubt it was him.” I was aware of…

— Jeffery Deaver

“Maree opened her eyes wide. “Wait, wait . . . I know you.” She regarded me with a frown. I must have blinked in surprise. Had we…

— Jeffery Deaver

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

— Jeffery Deaver

“eager’ and ‘anxious’ aren’t the same, or how ‘disinterested’ doesn’t mean ‘uninterested.”

— Jeffery Deaver

The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the…

— Jeffery Deaver

“DuBois’s observations were back. She’d largely recovered from the Graham ignominy.”

— Jeffery Deaver

“Maree may have noted that I said “wife” and not “ex,” which imparted some information to her. She was smarter than the package suggested.…

— Jeffery Deaver

“You see tumbleweeds? You see cowpokes? Indians? This isn’t the streets of Laredo.”

— Jeffery Deaver

“The young woman shrugged, walked to her computer, picked it up. She flopped down on the couch and scanned through it. This was something…

— Jeffery Deaver

“As a matter of fact, yeah, they were foolproof. The problem is that you don't have to protect yourself against fools. You have to…

— Jeffery Deaver