Jeffery Deaver: The Bone Collector (USA 2014)

From the Publisher:
Lincoln Rhyme was once a brilliant criminologist, a genius in the field of forensics -- until an accident left him physically and emotionally shattered. But now a diabolical killer is challenging Rhyme to a terrifying and ingenious duel of wits. With police detective Amelia Sachs by his side, Rhyme must follow a labyrinth of clues that reaches back to a dark chapter in New York City's past -- and reach further into the darkness of the mind of a madman who won't stop until he has stripped life down to the bone.

Includes a preview of the brand new sequel The Skin Collector.

Jeffery Deaver: The Bone Collector. The First Lincoln Rhyme Novel. Signet, ISBN: 9780451469793 (May, 2014), 542 p., $9.99.

Jeffery Deaver: The Bone Collector (USA 2014)

From the Publisher:
Lincoln Rhyme was once a brilliant criminologist, a genius in the field of forensics -- until an accident left him physically and emotionally shattered. But now a diabolical killer is challenging Rhyme to a terrifying and ingenious duel of wits. With police detective Amelia Sachs by his side, Rhyme must follow a labyrinth of clues that reaches back to a dark chapter in New York City's past -- and reach further into the darkness of the mind of a madman who won't stop until he has stripped life down to the bone.

Includes a preview of the brand new sequel The Skin Collector.

Jeffery Deaver: The Bone Collector. The First Lincoln Rhyme Novel. NAL, ISBN: 9780451466273 (January, 2014), 470 p., $15.00.

Jeffery Deaver: The Bone Collector (UK 2009)

From the Publisher:
New York City is 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. The cops go to Lincoln Rhyme, an ex-NYPD forensics expert left paralysed after an accident on the job. Rhyme reluctantly postpones his ambitions towards suicide and puts together a forensic investigation team, enlisting as his eyes and ears young police officer Amelia Sachs.

Rhyme digs deep into the only world he has left - his astonishing mind - and slowly begins to narrow the noose around the Bone Collector. But the kidnapper is narrowing his own noose - around Lincoln Rhyme.

Jeffery Deaver: The Bone Collector. Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN: 9780340992722 (May, 2009), 496 p., £7.99.

Jeffery Deaver: The Bone Collector (UK 2008)

From the Publisher:
New York City is 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. The cops go to Lincoln Rhyme, an ex-NYPD forensics expert left paralysed after an accident on the job. Rhyme reluctantly postpones his ambitions towards suicide and puts together a forensic investigation team, enlisting as his eyes and ears young police officer Amelia Sachs. Rhyme digs deep into the only world he has left - his astonishing mind - and slowly begins to narrow the noose around the Bone Collector. But the kidnapper is narrowing his own noose - around Lincoln Rhyme.

Jeffery Deaver: The Bone Collector. Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN: 9780340960608 (July, 2008), 467 p., £6.99.

Jeffery Deaver: The Bone Collector (USA 1998)

From the Publisher:
Lincoln Rhyme, ex-head of NYPD forensics, was the nation's foremost criminalist, the man who could work a crime scene and come away with a perfect profile of the killer, frozen in time. Now, Lincoln is frozen in place - permanently. An accident on the job left him a quadriplegic who can move just one finger, a great mind strapped to his bed, mulish and sarcastic, hiding from a life he no longer wants to live. Until he sees the crime-scene report about a corpse found buried on a deserted West Side railroad track, its bloody hand rising from the dirt. It belonged to a man who got into a cab at the airport and never got out. Reluctantly, Lincoln Rhyme abandons retirement to track down a killer whose ingenious clues hold the secret to saving his victims - if Rhyme can decipher them in time. The search leads him to the Bone Collector, whose obsession with old New York colors every scrap of evidence he leaves for Rhyme and his new partner, Amelia Sachs, whom he drafts as his arms and legs. But she's never worked a crime scene in her life - and he can only whisper in her ear as she does the exacting work he loved more than anything else.

Jeffery Deaver: The Bone Collector. Signet, ISBN: 0451188454 (April, 1998), 427 p., $7.99.

Jeffery Deaver: The Bone Collector (UK 1997)

From the Publisher:
Lincoln Rhyme was one of the world's foremost forensic criminalists, until a crime scene accident paralysed his spine. Quadriplegic, able to move only his head and shoulders and one finger, Lincoln Rhyme is bitter, his great mind trapped in his useless body. Rhyme is actually planning his suicide when he gets a call he; can't ignore from his old partner on the force. A body has been found in a grave beside the railway in New York, and the dead man' s colleague is still missing. The Bone Collector is a serial kidnapper, a very clever killer, and a man who dwells in the past. Rhyme has only a matter of hours to find the deliberate and obscure traces the murderer has left in order to find the Bone Collector's next victim...

Spurred from his lethargy of spirits to accept the challenge, Rhyme chooses inexperienced female police officer Amelia Sachs to act as his arms and legs to walk the crime scenes. Rhyme can only whisper in her ear and let her do the work he spent a lifetime with.

As the minutes count down, Rhyme and Sachs and their team race to decipher the Bone Collector's clues, but the killer has his own plans - and who the ultimate victim will be only he knows.

Deaver's stunning new, novel combines the suspense and forensic savvy of Patricia Cornwell with the rich historical dimension of The Alienist, together with the staggering twists and turns of plot that are his own hallmark. No one will be able to put The Bone Collector down...

Jeffery Deaver: The Bone Collector. Tick Tock Tick Tock - it's time to die when the clock stops. Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN: 0340653744 (February, 1997), 399 p., £16.99.