![]() ![]() When he describes a colorless, odorless glass of liquid as water, don't assume it is until somebody drinks it down - or maybe till an hour later.' - Kirkus Reviews on THE TWELFTH CARD 'The best psychological thriller writer around' - The Times 'The most creative, skilled and intriguing thriller writer in the world. Praise for Jeffery Deaver's other novels - : 'There's no question.about Deaver's unexcelled ability to pull the wool over your eyes. ![]() 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. He is a quadriplegic who can move nothing but a single finger. 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.Įvery fictional detective has his or her gimmick, from Sherlock Holmes's violin to Nero Wolf's orchids, and Rhyme is no exception. 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. ![]() 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". ![]()
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