The Devil’s Teardrop – Jeffery Deaver

The Devil’s Teardrop, my 6th outing with the work of Jeffery Deaver and the 1st outside of the Lincoln Rhyme series, focuses of former FBI agent Parker Kincaid, a forensic document examiner, who is called back in to duty when a gunman is let loose on Washington DC on New Year’s Eve.  Kincaid teams with the enigmatic Agent Margaret Lukas to track down the gunman and figure out who is behind his attacks before the clock strikes midnight.

This is Deaver’s lone outing about Parker Kincaid, though he has shown up in bit parts in some of the Lincoln Rhyme books.  I wouldn’t mind seeing more of him and Agent Lukas in the future if Deaver ever wishes to revisit the characters.  In the meantime, this was a good adventure, a nice change of pace from wizards and the like.