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Series
Lincoln Rhyme mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Amelia Sachs is hot on the trail of a killer. She's chasing him through a department store in Brooklyn when an escalator malfunctions. The stairs give way, with one man horribly mangled by the gears. Sachs is forced to let her quarry escape as she jumps in to try to help save the victim. She and famed forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme soon learn, however, that the incident may not be an accident at all, but the first in a series of intentional attacks....
Author
Series
Lincoln Rhyme mysteries volume 15
Language
English
Description
A woman awakes in the morning to find that someone has picked her apartment's supposedly impregnable door lock and rearranged personal items, even sitting beside her while she slept. The intrusion, the police learn, is a message to the entire city of carnage to come. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to investigate and soon learn that the sociopathic intruder, who calls himself 'the Locksmith,' can break through any lock or security system...
Author
Series
Lincoln Rhyme mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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DON'T MISS THE NBC TELEVISION SERIES LINCOLN RHYME: HUNT FOR THE BONE COLLECTOR
The first novel in the New York Times bestselling series featuring forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme—from the author of The Never Game.
“Lightning-paced…a breakneck thrill ride.”—The Wall Street Journal
Lincoln Rhyme was once a brilliant criminologist, a genius in the field of forensics—until...
The first novel in the New York Times bestselling series featuring forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme—from the author of The Never Game.
“Lightning-paced…a breakneck thrill ride.”—The Wall Street Journal
Lincoln Rhyme was once a brilliant criminologist, a genius in the field of forensics—until...
Author
Series
Lincoln Rhyme mysteries volume 10
Language
English
Description
It was a "million-dollar bullet," a sniper shot delivered from over a mile away. Its victim was no ordinary mark: he was a United States citizen, targeted by the United States government, and assassinated in the Bahamas. The nation's most renowned investigator and forensics expert, Lincoln Rhyme, is drafted to investigate. While his partner, Amelia Sachs, traces the victim's steps in Manhattan, Rhyme leaves the city to pursue the sniper himself. As...
Author
Series
Lincoln Rhyme mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Formats
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Jeffery Deaver is a New York Times best-selling author renowned for his ingenious plot twists. Booklist calls this series "among the cleverest of contemporary detective fiction," and Publishers Weekly hails Deaver's latest as "a robust thriller that demonstrates [his] unflagging ability to entertain." A black student is attacked in a Manhattan library while researching her mysterious ancestor. Rhyme and Amelia get involved-and then things take
...Author
Series
Lincoln Rhyme mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Lincoln Rhyme mysteries volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
SOON TO BE A MAJOR TELEVISION EVENT FROM NBC, STARRING RUSSELL HORNSBY, ARIELLE KEBBEL, AND MICHAEL IMPERIOLI.
Lincoln Rhyme, the quadriplegic detective made famous in The Bone Collector is back in a thriller from the masterful Jeffery Deaver. When a sadistic killer leaves clocks at his murder scenes, will time run out for the criminologist and his partner Amelia Sachs?
On a frigid December night, an eerie pattern emerges...
Lincoln Rhyme, the quadriplegic detective made famous in The Bone Collector is back in a thriller from the masterful Jeffery Deaver. When a sadistic killer leaves clocks at his murder scenes, will time run out for the criminologist and his partner Amelia Sachs?
On a frigid December night, an eerie pattern emerges...
Author
Series
Lincoln Rhyme mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
10) The empty chair
Author
Series
Lincoln Rhyme mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
SOON TO BE A MAJOR TELEVISION EVENT FROM NBC, STARRING RUSSELL HORNSBY, ARIELLE KEBBEL, AND MICHAEL IMPERIOLI.
From the #1 international bestselling author of The Bone Collector and The Devil's Teardrop comes this spine-chilling thriller that pits renowned criminalist Lincoln Rhyme against the ultimate opponent—Amelia Sachs, his own brilliant protégée.
A quadriplegic since a beam crushed his spinal...
From the #1 international bestselling author of The Bone Collector and The Devil's Teardrop comes this spine-chilling thriller that pits renowned criminalist Lincoln Rhyme against the ultimate opponent—Amelia Sachs, his own brilliant protégée.
A quadriplegic since a beam crushed his spinal...
11) Hell on wheels
Author
Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When Odelia Grey and her husband, Greg, attend a rugby match to cheer for their quadriplegic friends, the last thing they expect is to witness a murder on the playing court. Complicating matters is their friendship with the prime suspect. It doesn{u2019}t help that Odelia{u2019}s pompous boss is embroiled in a mystery of his own{u2014}one that leaves more than his super-sized ego bruised and battered. Odelia enlists the help of family and friends,...
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Español
Description
Based on a true story, Ramón Sampedro wants to end his life because a diving accident 28 years before that turned him into a quadriplegic. For most of those years he made the most of it: writing, developing a close relationships with his family, who all help to care for him. While grateful to his family and friends for their help, Ramón was always an active person. He has come to see his life as frustrating and pointless and wishes to die with what...
14) Gigi & Nate
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Nate suffers a near-fatal illness and is left a quadriplegic just weeks before departing for college. As Nate tries to adjust to his new life challenges, his mother helps him bring home an unlikely service animal, Gigi, a curious and intelligent capuchin monkey. Nate and Gigi form an unbreakable bond, but when it's threatened by a group trying to outlaw capuchins, Nate's family rallies behind him to help him regain the hope he so desperately needs....
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