Jeffery Deaver (born May 6, 1950) is an American mystery/crime writer. He originally started working as a journalist, but trained as a lawyer and later practiced law.

Three of Deaver’s novels have been produced into films: The Bone Collector (1999), A Maiden’s Grave as the TV film Dead Silence (1997), The Devil’s Teardrop (2010). Deaver also created the characters and – in a collaboration with 14 other noted writers – wrote the 17-part serial thriller The Chopin Manuscript narrated by Alfred Molina that was broadcast on Audible.com from September 25 to November 13, 2007.

Deaver will write the next James Bond novel. The novel, Carte Blanche, is set in the present era and will be published on May 28, 2011. He will be the second American author to write Bond novels, after Raymond Benson.

See also:

• Bond novels: Post-Ian Fleming