Essence Reviews: The Kill Room by Jeffery Deaver

 

What could you do with a “million-dollar bullet”? In Jeffery Deaver’s thriller/suspense novel The Kill Room, lead forensic investigators Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs attempt to answer just that question. 

In the Bahamas, an expatriate of the United States who was last seen in New York has been assassinated by a sniper. Bahamian authorities are reluctant to cooperate, having their tourist interests in mind. Shreve Metzger, head of National Intelligence and Operations Service (NIOS) is a vigilante whose office’s mission is to eliminate terrorists and anti-Americans. But a whistleblower who signed their note off with the name “A person with a conscience” from New York brings in the NYPD. Rhyme, Sachs, and NYPD officers must race against time as prime people who last saw or interacted with the deceased begin to disappear. 

As the crime story unfolds, a plot thread about perceived ability undercurrents. Rhyme is a quadriplegic and uses a motorized wheelchair. A minor but still significant point of the novel is that Rhyme is due to have surgery to give him use of his right hand. Throughout the book, we see another character deal with chronic pain that impacts their work in the field, and could result in them being permanently desked if they don’t take action soon. 

Reading this novel was out of my traditional wheelhouse. It was a fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat read, good through the final word. 

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