The hero of Jeffery Deaver's thriller The Bone Collector is Lincoln Rhyme, a forensic scientist known to his peers as "the world's foremost criminalist". Rhyme will need all his reason--and his considerable stock of high-tech tools--about him to solve this latest brain-twister: a serial killer with method to his madness. In tried and true thriller fashion, the killer's crimes are described in lurid detail, as is the astounding technological equipment with which Rhyme examines the evidence--everything from an energy-dispersive x-ray unit to a mass spectrometer.

Every fictional detective has his or her gimmick, from Sherlock Holmes's violin to Nero Wolf's orchids, and Rhyme is no exception. He is a quadriplegic who can move nothing but a single finger. Gadget-philes will be in seventh heaven reading about Lincoln Rhyme's tools; other readers might feel the book could do with a few more plausible characters and a little less technology. --Amazon.com

Praise for Jeffery Deaver's other novels -- : 'There's no question...about Deaver's unexcelled ability to pull the wool over your eyes. When he describes a colorless, odorless glass of liquid as water, don't assume it is until somebody drinks it down - or maybe till an hour later.' -- Kirkus Reviews on THE TWELFTH CARD 'The best psychological thriller writer around' -- The Times 'The most creative, skilled and intriguing thriller writer in the world ... [Deaver] has produced a stunning series of bestsellers with unique characterisation, intelligent characters, beguiling plots and double-barrelled and sometimes triple-barrelled solutions.' -- Daily Telegraph 'This is a novel that will chill your blood on the warmest day of any summer holiday. Keep looking over your shoulder...' -- Independent on Sunday 'Jeffery Deaver is a master at crafting intricate crimes that are solved through guile, tenacity and sheer creative genius. And Lincoln Rhyme is one of a kind.' -- Harlan Coben

'Sophisticated chiller... compulsive reading' Guardian

'Engrossing, entertaining and fizzing with energy, this is a suspense thriller to keep narcolepts awake' Val McDermid, Manchester Evening News

'Those who were gripped by Deaver's last novel, A Maiden's Grave, will not be surprised at the double-double-take finale, but I am willing to bet they still won't get it. Another genuinely compulsive chiller from the best psychological thriller writer around' Peter Millar, The Times

‘Superlatively plotted novel, rich in reversal and false endings’ The Sunday Times

'Deaver marries forensic work that would do Patricia Cornwell proud to a turbocharged plot that puts Benzedrine to shame' - Kirkus Reviews

'Deaver's villains are often intelligent as well as violent and, in his latest yarn hae has created a most unusual hero, plus his most inventive killer...the plot twists dramatically' Middlesborough Evening Gazette

'Take Patricia Cornwell's forensic investigation, add Thomas Harris and serial killers and mix in the tension that made Deaver's last novel A Maiden's Grave such a gripping read and you have THE BONE COLLECTOR, with the added bonus that it features one of the most original investigators in the history of crime fiction' Shropshire Star

'Truly gripping' Peterborough Evening Telegraph

'Deaver has made a very good fist of scaring the pants of his readers. One to be read during daylight hours, and definitely not in a taxi' Irish Times

'Full of twists and turns, building up to a nail-biting climax' Yorkshire Evening Press

'A suitably bizarre hero for a flamboyantly grotesque thriller...The Bone Collector craftily blends aspects of several recent trends in crime fiction. This breakneck thrill-ride reads like a movie, but there's some admirable writing' Wall Street Journal

'Jeffery Deaver has produced one of the most explosive thrillers of the year. Don't miss it' Liverpool Daily Post

'Undeniably effective, but ultra-grisly. Approach with care' Literary Review

‘The contemporary psychological thriller doesn’t get any better than this, the stunning and ingeniously-wrought tale... This is a sensational thriller, brilliantly researched, chilling and almost unbearably gripping to the very end’ Northern Echo

‘Unsettling stuff with a surprisingly heart-warming ending’ Dorset Evening Echo

'Sophisticated chiller... compulsive reading' (Guardian )

'Engrossing, entertaining and fizzing with energy, this is a suspense thriller to keep narcolepts awake' (Val McDermid )

'Those who were gripped by Deaver's last novel, A Maiden's Grave, will not be surprised at the double-double-take finale, but I am willing to bet they still won't get it. Another genuinely compulsive chiller from the best psychological thriller writer around' (Peter Millar, The Times )

‘Superlatively plotted novel, rich in reversal and false endings’ (The Sunday Times )

'Sophisticated chiller... compulsive reading'