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Summary: READ IT! READ IT! READ IT!
Review: AWESOME READ! For weeks, I was NOT going to read this book. It did not appeal to me. I am SOOO glad I did. What a ride. Be prepared NOT to put it down from start to finish. This one is a WINNER!!
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Summary: A Serial Killer story of the highest degree
Review: I got the book for my birthday and I wasn't really sure I was going to like it. After the first three chapters, I was hooked. The "Bone Collecter" is a real page turner. I really didn't like the main character, Lincoln Rhyme, for most of the book but I came around. You'll love the bad gu
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Summary: Best Duo Since Holmes and Watson!
Review: "The Bone Collector" is the first in the riveting Lincoln Rhyme-Amelia Sachs series, and it leaves the reader gasping for more.Take one handsome and brilliant forensic scientist--who now happens to be a quadriplegic who can move his head and exactly one finger. Team him with a gorgeous redheaded cop with a chip on her shoulder and a propensity for biting her nails to the quick. Present them with a serial killer to end all serial killers. And then hang on tight, because this plot has more twists and turns than the most sophisticated roller coaster. As the book opens, a despairing Rhyme is methodically planning his own suicide, with the help of a Kevorkian-type doctor. Trapped in his useless body, the former criminalist feels he simply cannot go on. Then he is asked to help solve one more case--and his brilliant mind simply cannot resist the tantalizing and baffling clues. With a slew of high-tech gadgets (fascinating) in his bedroom, and the unwilling Amelia Sachs acting as his stand-in at the various crime scenes, Rhyme tracks a killer whose twisted mind jumps back and forth from the real world to that of Old New York. This is one heck of a perp: He thinks he's living 100 years ago, and his murders have everything to do with that delusion. No way can the reader guess the end; no way is the reader going to be satisfied with only one Rhyme-Sachs novel. Fortunately, there are more--and I've ordered them all!
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Summary: 4.5 : read this book! even if you've seen the movie
Review: absolutely terrific. Even though I had seen the movie before I read the book there was still plenty more to the story. I wish I had read the book first, but it is still a must read for mystery/thriller lovers.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the ending different in the movie? (I haven't seen the film in a while, but while reading the book I thought "the bone collector" was someone other than the person it turned out to be.)
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Summary: Gory but riveting
Review: Forensic criminalist Lincoln Rhyme, almost totally paralysed from being hit by a falling beam at a crime scene, is planning to suicide with the help of a "death doctor", when he is drawn into a horrifying murder scene by a call for help from an old colleague. Terrible clues, all connected with bones, are being openly shown as bait to draw in the police. With the help of a gorgeous redheaded policewoman, Amelia Sachs, who acts as his arms and legs, Lincoln begins to unravel the crimes which are a direct copy of crimes committed in the 19th century days of old New York. The detectives race against time as clue after clue is left, each one more complex than the last. It's a fast, thrilling read and one which I thoroughly enjoyed.
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Summary: The Bone Collector is a creepy, murderous thriller
Review: Lincoln Rhymes is a brilliant criminalist however he wants to die. Three years ago while working a case, a beam fell on him leaving him a quadriplegic. Life is miserable for him and he wants it to end. Resigned to his bed, unable to move, except for his ring finger on his left hand. The New York Police Department recruits his help when two tourists are kidnapped by a medallion cab driver from JFK, in town for a United Nations conference. Amelia Sachs, on her last day of patrol duty, is drawn into the case because she inadvertently discovers the first buried victim. She becomes Lincoln's eyes and ears at each subsequent crime scene. The tension and emotions between these two are palatable knowing that she does not want to do crime scene work at the same time he would give anything to be back walking the streets. The suspect is smart and strings them along with seemingly unrelated clues to where his next victim will be. Each of his victims endured pain and torture and the killer's gruesome fascination with collecting bones. Amelia and Lincoln discover his bible, Crimes of Old New York, a book written by an infamous 19th century murderer, James Schneider. Lincoln himself has to fight for his life against the killer. He never thought his past mistakes would come back to haunt him. I had read so many recommendations of this book I had to see for myself. It was an exciting, scary, well-written mystery.
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Summary: If you like CSI - You will love this book!
Review: The first in the Lincoln Rhyme Novel Series, The Bone Collector is a great criminology thriller! From beginning to end this page turner draws you into a gripping plot of kidnapping, murder, and mystery. The Bone Collector introduces you to the hero and heroine for future novels. Lincoln Rhyme is a veteran criminalist known the world over for his crime scene magic, uncovering the hidden trace evidence that easily slips by most. Amelia Sachs is a beat cop ready for the slow, uneventful, safe life of public affairs. Their worlds collide when she happens upon the site of someone buried alive, hand extending above ground open and hoping for air that never came. Called out of retirement to work the case, Rhyme is reluctant at best. He was paralyzed in an investigation accident three years earlier and has withdrawn into the empty lonely existence of a quadriplegic.
Jeff Deaver does not spare any details with crime scenes rendering instead an honest, yet gruesome novel that immediately captures the imagination and our desire to catch the bad guy. He does an amazing job of communicating the depth of despair and hopelessness that I imagine would be mine if I were Rhyme. He is a deep character with warm, yet jaded edges, but a true sense of good and right runs through his veins. Rhyme's struggle to solve the crime is balanced in the novel by Rhyme's struggle for death, in this case his own.
The tale is gripping, the detail gruesome, the characters inviting, and no doubt present the beginning of a series I look forward to reading soon.
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Summary: Deaver is the Daddy of Suspense!!
Review: I find Patterson lukewarm and Coban intriguing but heavy-handed. Jeffery Deaver, however, is a superb suspense author...the best in my opinion. His plots twist and turn and always intrigue...his characters are three dimensional and command a reader's attention.
Bone Collector is the first of the Lincoln Rhyme novels and is a great beginning to a great series. I cannot wait for the next offering from Deaver featuring Rhyme...this author has yet to disappoint me with anything that I've read by him.
Pick this book up and read it...even if you have seen the film, especially if you have seen the film...you will get much more out of it.
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Summary: Excellent suspense....riveted to the end
Review: I read this book since it was the first of the Rhyme series. I put it off, because I think I saw the movie. I loved this book!
I think the unique idea of the criminalist being a quadraplegic is phenomenal. Deaver has reached high level.
Rhyme is asked to help find a serial killer in Manhatten. What he is actually doing is putting off his suicide. Amelia Sachs was the first one on the scene of one of the murders. Purely by accident. She was actually on her way to her new job in Public Affairs. Rhyme is intreged by her because she stops a train and halts traffic on a major road.
She is really not wanting to help on the scene. But as she gets more involved and learns the personal side of Rhyme, she is pulled in. She is good.
This book is so good I actually wanted to find the old book mentioned "Old Crimes of NY". It also made me want to visit NY and study it's history...criminal history.
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Summary: I Loved This Book!!!
Review: What can I say, but this was an excellent book, and made me an everloving Jeffrey Deaver (Lincoln Rhyme) fan. I plan to purchase the rest of the series ASAP.
Lincoln Rhyme was a cop, who was injured in
the line of duty, and left a quadraplegic. His daily routine is more than any one person should be able to bear. Lincoln realives
this, and has plans.
When a serial killer appears in town, officers come to him for help. Mystery and suspense fill this book. I didn't want to put it down. I felt a real bond with this
character, perhaps because I'm a paraplegic.
But anyway I can't wait to read the next book in
the series,Coffin Dancer, and I give The Bone Collector five
stars and recommend it to anyone who likes a good thriller.
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