It’s rare that a twist catches me completely off guard, but Deaver utterly shocked me here. Nearing the end of Dancer around 1 am, I was mad, saying, “That makes no sense because…” But it finally did. Sneaky bugger! There are multiple twists here, sometimes twisting back on themselves, and this one was essential to read in print rather than listening to audio while doing other things. Glad I didn’t attempt that. Surprising as it was, and filled with minute details and intricacies of different avenues of information, Dancer wasn’t quite as appealing as its predecessor, The Bone Collector, but it’s exciting to know there are many more titles in this Lincoln Rhyme series. (With the bonus that he still looks a lot like Denzel Washington in my mind, despite Deaver’s written descriptions to the contrary.) This high-flying book lived up to its “thriller” label like nothing I’ve read before,