Jeffery Deaver’s latest novel, “The October List,” tells a story in a backwards time progression. In the first chapter we meet office manager Gabriela McKenzie, frantic because her six year old daughter has been kidnapped, and time is running out. There is also Daniel Reardon, a financial manager who is attempting to help Gabriela save her daughter’s life. The kidnapper is demanding half a million dollars in cash, plus a mysterious “October List.” Each subsequent chapter takes places earlier in time, and by the time we read the last chapter (actually the first), all our assumptions about the characters have been shattered. Not as satisfying as Deaver’s Lincoln Rhyme or Kathryn Dance novels, this is more of a mind teaser than a mystery.
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