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By (author) Deaver Jeffery

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The first instalment of the bestselling Lincoln Rhyme series and inspiration for the 1999 thriller movie starring Angelina Jolie. Now a NBC TV series.

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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Goodbye Man, discover Jeffery Deaver”s chilling thriller that inspired the film starring Angelina Jolie and Denzel Washington and is now a major NBC TV series.

Their first case, their worst killer . . .

New York City has been thrown into chaos by the assaults of the Bone Collector, a serial kidnapper and killer who gives the police a chance to save his victims from death by leaving obscure clues. Baffled, the cops turn to the one man with a chance of solving them – Lincoln Rhyme.

Left paralysed by a debilitating accident, ex NYPD cop Rhyme has to dig deep into the only world he has left – his astonishing mind – to have any hope of solving the case. With the help of a young police officer, Amelia Sachs, he starts to close in on the killer. But as he edges closer to the truth, the Bone Collector is closing in on Lincoln Rhyme himself.

”This is a novel that will chill your blood on the warmest day of any summer holiday. Keep looking over your shoulder . . .”
Independent on Sunday

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Praise for Jeffery Deaver

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Praise for Jeffery Deaver

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The best psychological thriller writer around

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The best psychological thriller writer around

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The most creative, skilled and intriguing thriller writer in the world . . . [Deaver] has produced a stunning series of bestsellers with unique characterisation, intelligent characters, beguiling plots and double-barrelled and sometimes triple-barrelled solutions.

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The most creative, skilled and intriguing thriller writer in the world . . . [Deaver] has produced a stunning series of bestsellers with unique characterisation, intelligent characters, beguiling plots and double-barrelled and sometimes triple-barrelled solutions.

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The pace is terrific, the suspense inexorable, and there is an excellent climax . . . If you want thrills, Deaver is your man.

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The pace is terrific, the suspense inexorable, and there is an excellent climax . . . If you want thrills, Deaver is your man.

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One of the world”s best plotters – his intricate twists and turns catch out even the hardened thriller reader . . . This is a true master at work – elegant, assured, supremely crafted thriller writing at its very best

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One of the world”s best plotters – his intricate twists and turns catch out even the hardened thriller reader . . . This is a true master at work – elegant, assured, supremely crafted thriller writing at its very best

Biographical note:

Jeffery Deaver is an international number-one bestselling author. His novels have appeared on bestseller lists around the world. His books are sold in 150 countries and translated into twenty-five languages. He has served two terms as president of Mystery Writers of America, and was recently named a Grand Master of MWA, whose ranks include Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, Mary Higgins Clark and Walter Mosely.

The author of more than forty novels, three collections of short stories and a nonfiction law book, and a lyricist of a country-western album, he”s received or been shortlisted for dozens of awards.

His The Bodies Left Behind was named Novel of the Year by the International Thriller Writers association, and his Lincoln Rhyme thriller The Broken Window and a stand-alone, Edge, were also nominated for that prize. The Ga