Deaver, Jeffery

Quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs find themselves on a cat-and-mouse chase through the streets of uptown Manhattan as they try to outguess a cunning serial killer.

Kessler, a Washington, D.C. police officer, becomes the target of a lifter who will stop at nothing to get the information needed from Kessler, and as the FBI and the rest of Kessler's department scramble to protect him and his family, Corte, the personal security agent assigned to the case, risks everything to track the lifter and bring him to justice.

Quadriplegic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme's relationship with his protegee and lover Amelia Sachs is put to the ultimate test when they travel to North Carolina where Rhyme is scheduled for experimental surgery and are drawn into a local case of kidnapping, rape, and murder that pits the two detectives against one another.

California Bureau of Investigation agent Kathryn Dance chases an escaped killer and cult leader known as the "Son of Manson," whose murder of a wealthy computer engineer's family years ago left the youngest daughter alive.

Jeffery Deaver selects twenty works of American mystery writing as the best of the genre from the year 2008, including pieces by Tom Bissell, Robert McClure, Joyce Carol Oates, and others.

Quadriplegic forensic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme and his ambitious partner, Amelia Sachs, search for a New York City serial killer with a talent for diabolical illusions.

Paralyzed criminologist Lincoln Rhyme and his beautiful protegee and lover Amelia Sachs are recruited by the FBI to help locate "the Ghost," a professional human smuggler and killer who is combing New York for two Chinese families who escaped into the city after he blew up the boat on which they were traveling.

NYPD criminalist Lincoln Rhyme joins his beautiful prot?eg?e, Amelia Sachs, in the hunt for the Coffin Dancer -- an ingenious killer who changes appearance even faster than he adds to his trail of victims. They have only one clue: the madman has a tattoo of the Grim Reaper waltzing with a woman. Rhyme must rely on his wits and intuition to track the elusive murderer through New York City -- knowing they have only forty-eight hours before the Coffin Dancer strikes again.

Quadriplegic forensic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme and his ambitious partner, Amelia Sachs, search for a New York City serial killer with a talent for diabolical illusions.

Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are pitched against a Watchmaker, who plans his carnage with the precision of a timepiece.