The Bone Collector

Jeffery Deaver's suspense book The Bone Collector was published in 1997. Lincoln Rhyme, a quadriplegic forensic criminalist, is introduced in the novel. In 1999, it was made into a film of the same name. In 2019, NBC ordered a pilot for a television series based on the novel. Although the pilot was made accessible on some platforms on January 1, 2020, it did not air until January 10, 2020.

Lincoln Rhyme, the former chief of NYPD forensics, was the nation's best criminalist, the man who could work a murder scene and leave with a flawless profile of the perpetrator frozen in time. Lincoln is now stuck in place — for good. An on-the-job accident left him a quadriplegic with just one finger movement, a brilliant mind shackled to his bed, mulish and sardonic, fleeing 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.

Detailed information:

Author: Jeffery Deaver
Language: English
Genre: Thriller

Link to read: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2373