Coffin Dancer (Lincoln Rhyme Novels)

Coffin Dancer (Lincoln Rhyme Novels)

by JefferyDeaver (Author)

Synopsis

Detective Lincoln Rhymes, the foremost criminalist in the NYPD, is put on the trail of the Coffin Dancer, a cunning professional killer who has continually alluded the police. Rhymes - -a quadriplegic since a line-of-duty accident -- must use his wits to track this brilliant killer who's been hired to eliminate three witnesses in the last hours before their grand jury testimony.

Rhyme works with his eyes and ears, New York cop Amelia Sachs, to gather information from trace evidence at the crime scene (for a start, scrapings from the tires of the emergency vehicles that responded to the Chicago crash) to nail him, or at least to predict his next move and head him off. In the resulting game of cat-and- mouse, both Rhyme and the Dancer are constantly subject to unbelievably timely hunches and brain waves that keep their deadly shuttlecock in play down to the wire. Fair warning to newcomers: Author Deaver is just as cunning and deceptive as his killer; don't assume he's run out of tricks until you've run out of pages. By the author of The Bone Collector.

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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 560
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: James Bennett Pty Ltd
Published: 01 Mar 1999

ISBN 10: 0671024094
ISBN 13: 9780671024093

Media Reviews
Booklist Intense and heart-stopping...leaves readers gasping at the stunning climax.
USA Today Deaver revs up the already supercharged tension by cramming all of the action in The Coffin Dancer into forty-eight hours.
Library Journal Quick to the punch, The Coffin Dancer is diabolically packed with the good stuff: coverups, mystery, action.
San Jose Mercury News This is as good as it gets....The Lincoln Rhyme series is simply outstanding.
People Deaver is a master of ticking-bomb suspense.
People Deaver...is a master of ticking-bomb suspense... Rhyme, now a forensic consultant, is more relentless than ever. Especially when, as in his chilling new case, he has a personal score to settle.
Publishers Weekly Revelations and reversals punctuate this thriller like a string of firecrackers....Superb plotting and brisk, no-nonsense prose.
Kirkus Reviews Fair warning to newcomers: Author Deaver is just as cunning and deceptive as his killer; don't assume he's run out of tricks until you've run out of pages.
St. Petersburg Times Readers who like insider information on police and FBI lingo will enjoy details Deaver adds to the dialogue.
Author Bio
Jeffery Deaver is the international, #1 bestselling author of more than twenty-seven suspense novels, including The Bone Collector, which was made into a film starring Denzel Washington. He lives in North Carolina.