Solitude Creek (A Kathryn Dance Novel)

by Jeffery Deaver

2016

Status

Available

Publication

Grand Central Publishing (2016), 624 pages

Description

Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:Jeffery Deaver, "the master of manipulation" (Associated Press) and "the most creative, skilled and intriguing thriller writer in the world." (Daily Telegraph, UK) returns with the new, long-awaited, Kathryn Dance thriller. A tragedy occurs at a small concert venue on the Monterey Peninsula. Cries of "fire" are raised and, panicked, people run for the doors, only to find them blocked. A half dozen people die and others are seriously injured. But it's the panic and the stampede that killed them; there was no fire. Kathryn Dance�??a brilliant California Bureau of Investigation agent and body language expert�??discovers that the stampede was caused intentionally and that the perpetrator, a man obsessed with turning people's own fears and greed into weapons, has more attacks planned. She and her team must race against the clock to find where he will strike next before more innocent… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member MarlaAMadison

I thought this Dance novel, one of Deaver's best. The plot was certainly original and keeps the reader guessing. My only complaint was that there was a little too much about Dance's family. Other than that, it's an excellent suspense read, with great characters.

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LibraryThing member jfe16

A cry of “Fire!” during a concert causes a stampede toward the exits, but the fleeing people find the doors blocked. Panic ensues and when all is said and done, three people have been crushed to death and scores of others are injured.

But there was no fire.

Antioch March is responsible for

creating the fear that caused the panicked stampede. When Katherine Dancer, a body language specialist with the FBI, is brought in to investigate, she discovers that March has other attacks planned as he seeks to turn peoples’ fears into weapons.
Thus begins the race to identify the target, to keep the next attack from happening, and to keep the innocent from dying.

This top-notch thriller will keep readers turning pages far into the night.

Highly recommended.

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LibraryThing member librarian1204

I like the Kathryn Dance character. Good read but not the author's best.

LibraryThing member busyreadin

Multiple cases challenge Kathryn Dance as she is placed on desk duty due to a botched police interview.

LibraryThing member Alan1946

This is another (almost) intriguing book by an artist of his craft. Kathryn Dance is led a merry waltz by a very clever criminal whose main skill is inducing fear into people, a fear which causes them to panic and in the scramble that ensues, people are killed or badly injured. So much of that is

clear from the beginning, even telling us the perpetrator's name, Antioch March, and how he is planning his next event, taunted by his psychological problem which he calls "The Get". What is not revealed until much later is the appalling background to these planned events. Kathryn works her way through what clues there are, becoming quite devious (just how much is not seen until very near the end of the novel) herself in bringing the perpetrator to justice, and also starting a whole train of other convictions to be pursued. Unfortunately, and this where my bracketed (almost) comes in at the start, is that the end becomes rushed. The actual denouement is very well staged, but then everything falls into place too easily thanks to immediate confessions. Kathryn's love life also adds something of a distraction, although it does seem to be working out towards the end.
Still a good series, an intriguing plot, a good read, just the drawback of the quick ending.

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LibraryThing member PaulaGalvan

I love the Kathryn Dance character. She's cool and bright, likes stylish footwear, and is an expert at kinesics—a form of reading body language and facial expressions—which comes in handy when interviewing criminals. This book follows several cases Agent Dance works on with her fellow CBI

agents. At the forefront is a psycho working in the Monterey Bay area, orchestrating deadly stampedes in crowded venues, then selling pics and videos of the death and mayhem. Who knew that was a thing, but it is. I know stampedes at concerts have happened in real life, but the ones described in this book are exceptionally terrifying. The other cases involve a drug cartel working on the west coast of California and some local hate crimes. The action in the book's first half is slow, but the author throws a few surprising twists towards the end. Some plot lines involving her kids were implausible, but I immensely enjoyed this book.

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