The Bone Collector: Lincoln Rhyme Book 1

Deaver, Jeffery

ISBN 10: 0340960604 / ISBN 13: 9780340960608

Published by Hodder Paperbacks, 2008

About this Item

Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover.

Seller Inventory # CHL1124311

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Bone Collector: Lincoln Rhyme Book 1
• Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340960604
• ISBN 13: 9780340960608
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Used; Good

About this title

Synopsis

Once the nation's foremost criminologist and the ex-head of NYPD forensics, quadriplegic Lincoln Rhyme abandons his forced retirement and joins forces with rookie cop Amelia Sachs to track down a vicious serial killer. Read by David McCallum.

Review

The hero of Jeffery Deaver's thriller The Bone Collector is Lincoln Rhyme, a forensic scientist known to his peers as "the world's foremost criminalist." Rhyme will need all his reason--and his considerable stock of high-tech tools--about him to solve this latest brain-twister: a serial killer with method to his madness. In tried and true thriller fashion, the killer's crimes are described in lurid detail, as is the astounding technological equipment with which Rhyme examines the evidence--everything from an energy-dispersive x-ray unit to a mass spectrometer.

Every fictional detective has his or her gimmick, from Sherlock Holmes's violin to Nero Wolf's orchids, and Rhyme is no exception. He is a quadriplegic who can move nothing but a single finger. Gadget-philes will be in seventh heaven reading about Lincoln Rhyme's tools; other readers might feel the book could do with a few more plausible characters and a little less technology.