The Bone Collector

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Summary: Gripping from start to finish
Review: The best book I have read in a long time. I was not sure when I bought it but after the first chapter I could not put it down, I had the novel finished in 1 day..... The chariters, the plot, the details, all keep you wondering whats next, the ending has a great twist. Not what I expected

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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: 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: 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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Summary: Read this book....
Review: I saw the movie a couple of years ago, I thought it was ok, but then I saw the book, and immediately got it. I have to say that this book puts James Patterson to shame. The story takes place in NYC, and the UN deligation is there holding a summit, but the book starts out with a man and a woman taking a cab, but when he misses their stop...things go for the worst. They are killed, and now a murderer is on the loose. Then comes in Lincoln Rhyme, a no nonsense arrogant (and I do mean arrogant) former police officer until he got hurt which he cannot walk anymore and now spends his time in bed. Now when Amelia Sachs spots a body, then the hunt for the killer begins. At first they go through forensic clues, they build a profile about the killer, but yet the author Jefferey Deaver does give us some clues to who the killer is, but still you have to keep on reading to find out who is causing all these killings. Eventually, as their profile gets bigger, he then makes a couple of mistakes. Take for example, when the Bone Collector tries to kill a German woman, but got away, he tries to get rid of all the clues from the crime scene, but still he leaves forensic clues for Lincoln Rhyme, though he cannot get out of bed, he tells beat cop Amelia Sachs to be his eyes and ears when she is walking the scene. As the book moves forward, and coming so close to catching the killer, eventually they get a fingerprint! They follow the print, and a old leaf they found at a scene. So now as they get closer and closer, eventually the case is taken away from Lincoln and his people helping him solve the case, but when they saved a victim from the pier, he tricks them by kidnapping a woman and daughter. The book is rather interesting, and worth reading. I am not done with it yet, but wow...the suspense is just amazing, the action feels real, and the forensic talk is there. This is a must-have for any person who loves forensic work, and loves mysteries.