The Bone Collector - Jeffery Deaver

New York is preparing for a UN summit, when two taxi passengers are kidnapped. Amelia Sachs(a patrol cop) is searching for evidence about the kidnapping after a anonymous tip-off when she makes a gruesome discovery, a human hand rising from the ground, flesh stripped to the bone! Lincoln Rhyme was a reknown criminologist in the NYPD until a tragic accident cut his career short and left him quadraplegic. Currently contimplating assisted suicide Rhyme is called upon by his old colleagues to help catch the kidnapper/killer "The bone collector" before he kills again. Cunningly the bone collector has left clues at the crimescene intentionally, to ...  Read the complete review

I find thrillers really annoying sometimes as I'm tempted to cut through the crap and read the last page to find out who did it. How glad am I that this time I didn't. I was glued to my bed/chair/garden bench reading this book and my only regret is that I've finished the book. The main character is Lincoln Rhyme who is a tetraplegic which means he has no movement below his neck and a slight twitch on one finger. He is fighting an inner battle as to whether or not to end his own life when a seemingly unsolvable crime occurs in New York and as a retired criminologist he is asked to help out. The plot has more twists and turns then ...  Read the complete review

Jeffrey Deaver, the author of this book, also wrote the screenplay for the film so if you've seen the film and liked it, you'll probably like the book too. If you've never heard of either the film or the book before, the book is the best place to start I think as I personally appreciate the film better for having enjoyed the book first. The story is all about Lincoln Rhyme, a quadriplegic detective who is bedridden but still determined to keep his mind on crime. Young Police Woman Amelia Sachs is his hands and eyes down on the floor following his instructions. The pair are working together to track down a serial killer who's leaving some seriously ...  Read the complete review

This was the first book I read by Deaver, and what an introduction. A few weeks on from reading it, I can still remember the sheer level of shock that this author induces when describing the mutilations which occur in the Bone Collector. The main character, Lincoln Rhyme, is a cripple with a brilliant ability in crime scenes. He is enlisted to solve the case of a sick killer/torturer. This at a time when he is in a grave personal state, which adds extra edge to the plot. Deaver delves into the mind of Rhyme, and really shows the internal fight which a cripple suffers daily. Rhyme is joined but an intelligent female cop, who finds herself in the wrong ...  Read the complete review

The Bone Collector introduces the world to Jeffrey Deaver's best loved character, the quadripelgic criminalogist Lincoln Rhyme. It tells the story of Rhyme, paralysed from the neck down save for a ring finger, being drawn back to his life as a forensic examiner, when a killer by the name of The Bone Collector begins leaving macabre crime scenes. There is real forensic science techniques used in what is essentially the written equivalent of a hollywood blockbuster (incidentally, the book was turned into a hollywood blockbuster starring Denzil Washington and Angelina Jolie which was pretty terrible). The story is fairly ridiculous but it moves along ...  Read the complete review