The Bone Collector

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Summary: Scares you silly
Review: This book is one of the best I have read. I was in need of a good book since I had finished my others. I picked this one up due to the new movie, I could not put this book down. I was turning pages non-stop. I was in suspense the whole time that I was reading this book. Jeffery Deaver is one of the best writers I have ever read. Since reading this book I am hooked on Jeffery Deaver. I am currently reading the Coffin Dancer. In the Bone Collector there are many interesting twists and turns that will leave you reading till the end. If I could give this ten stars I would gladly give it that, and would recomend this book to anyone who likes thrillers.

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Summary: I loved this book but won't see the movie
Review: Lincoln is the best crime solver to come around since Dr. Kay, Lucas Davenport, and Alex Cross. The book was fantastic and kept me glued to the couch all day. I just wish the casting directors would read the books before they cast the parts!

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Summary: My First Deaver, and I loved it !
Review: I'm always skeptical of starting new mystery/thrillers, because most of them are never what they are cracked up to be. However, I thoroughly enjoyed this book ! The characters were interesting - flawed, but, nevertheless, interesting, and I never suspected ONCE who the actual killer was. For that, the book gets 5 stars. It was refreshing to read of a hero and heroine who have feet of clay (like all of us), and yet manage to function beautifully despite their obvious and not-so-obvious shortcomings. I will definately read more of Jeffery Deavers's novels, especially those with the Rhymes/Sachs characters. The book was well-written and informative - especially for forensic science buffs. I hope the other books by this author are as satisfying.

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Summary: Frustrating Plot Holes
Review: I am just trying to "get into" this book, which I had heard was supposed to be great, but there such a gigantic plot mistake introduced in chapter 2 that I am ready to give up. Between 9:30 and 10:00 a.m. Amelia finds the murder victim. Can anyone explain how, barely an hour and a half later, the police show up at Rhyme's door asking him to review the police report, which has already been typed up, and indicates that some evidence has been tested by the lab? This is absurd, and unless someone can explain it to me, I will not read any further.

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Summary: Deavers Rules !
Review: I have read "The Coffin Dancer" and "The Bone Collector". Lincoln is a great character, I hope he has more cases to solve. Jeffrey's Endings slam you, you are given clues but you never see them until almost the end, then you realize they were there all along but you were holding your breath for the ending...and about the last ten pages you cannot read fast enough

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Summary: Great Book! Lousy Movie!
Review: I'm fascinated by forensics and DEAVER takes you where the criminalist dares to tread. The characters were well developed and the killer brought old New York to life. The movie captured none of this. Denzel although good, didn't have the mean streak that Rhyme in the novel manifests. The cocky Dellray was replaced by a boring substitute. The victims, who had so much voice in the novel, were one dimensional. The killer; not the same in the novel-WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? I've seen "Silence of the Lambs" and "Man Hunter" and read the books. Good work can be done!

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Summary: Chilled to the Bone!
Review: this is a bone-chilling shocker about a deadly game of wits between a physically crippled but brilliant criminologist and diabolical and brutal psychokiller who is terrorizing New York City.In lincoln Rhyme,the criminologist Deaver has created a flawed but unforgettable hero and the villian:Bone Collector he has a killer to put Hannibal Lector to shame!This novel boast up to date knowledge of forensics and chilling details as the author goes into the twisted mind of his villian.Excellent thriller but not for the faint of heart.

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Summary: Definitely a non-stop, "can't-put-it-down" kind of book!
Review: Lincoln Rhyme was a brilliant forensics investigator,passionate about his work. He had spent years learning the city of New York by walking its streets, prowling its underground, smelling, tasting. He could identify the origin of a grain of sand by knowing which city block was built over loamy soil, or shells, or bedrock. His thinking processes could rival a computer. His brainpower was all that he had left, for Lincoln was a quadriplegic, injured while inspecting a crime scene three years earlier. His reluctant involvement in a current police investigation begins to wear-away at Lincoln's desire to commit self-euthanasia. He exploits his disability with the NYPD in order to run the investigation his way. This includes recruiting an untrained but gutsy female patrol officer to perform actual crime scene searches. His "celebrity" status of former days is a draw to old colleagues, who bring manpower and equipment to Lincoln's townhome "command post". The story compels the reader to turn another page, looking for the clues that will find the murderer. What is the smell? Where did he stand? Why? The use of acronyms(GC-MS=gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer, for example)sometimes disturbs the flow of the story. It is necessary, though, as part of the life of a cop. At one point, I thought I knew "who done it". It turned out that I was right. But, the clever writing of Jefferey Deaver drew me away from that guess so completely, that I was stunned at the end of the book to finally learn who the murderer was. Finishing the book in one day, I went the next morning to buy Coffin Dancer (see my review of that one as well). I recommend this book !

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Summary: ridiculous, sick plot- a waste of time
Review: I made the mistake of believing the cover blurbs, and bought this book second hand. I went along with the mystery, but the ending is so ridiculous, and ghoulish, and sick, that I urge any reader with any sense not to bother reading this. Why someone decided that this needed a movie made of it, I can't guess. Another sick movie about sick people.

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Summary: Don't collect this book
Review: The forensic details were fascinating, but the storyline was hard to swallow. The characters were flat and the identity of the "unsub" was ridiculous. I wouldn't recommend this book.