num_pages: 467
description: 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. --Amazon.com
language: English
title: The Bone Collector
titlecomplete: The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1)
characters: Lincoln Rhyme, Amelia Sachs
genres: Thriller, Detective, Crime, Suspense, Horror, Adult, Mystery Thriller, Mystery, Fiction, Murder Mystery
ratings_count: 177381
places: New York City, New York
series: Lincoln Rhyme
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Nero Award
publisher: Hodder & Stoughton