Lincoln Rhyme en Amelia Sachs Reeks

De serie volgt de briljante forensische expert Lincoln Rhyme en zijn partner, detective Amelia Sachs, terwijl ze complexe misdaden oplossen met behulp van wetenschappelijke methoden en deductief redeneren. Hun verhalen spelen zich vaak af in New York en omvatten spannende achtervolgingen en psychologisch drama. Rhyme, die verlamd is, vertrouwt op Sachs om hem in het veld te helpen. Samen staan ze tegenover verschillende gevaarlijke tegenstanders en onthullen ze duistere geheimen.

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The bone collector
Jeffery Deaver
512bladzijden
18 uur lezen
4,2(169803)Tarief
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.
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The Coffin Dancer
Jeffery Deaver
4,5(3603)Tarief
SOON TO BE A MAJOR TELEVISION EVENT FROM NBC, STARRING RUSSELL HORNSBY, ARIELLE KEBBEL, AND MICHAEL IMPERIOLI. “Lincoln Rhyme is more relentless than ever” (People) and Jeffery Deaver delivers “supercharged tension” (USA TODAY) in this New York Times bestselling suspense masterwork. NYPD criminalist Lincoln Rhyme joins his beautiful protégée Amelia Sachs, in the hunt for the Coffin Dancer—an ingenious killer who changes his appearance even faster than he adds to his trail of victims. They have only one clue: the madman has a tattoo of the Grim Reaper waltzing with a woman in front of a coffin. Rhyme must rely on his wits and intuition to track the elusive murderer through New York City—knowing they have only forty-eight hours before the Coffin Dancer strikes again. This is a “heart-stopping” (Booklist) thriller from #1 international bestselling author Jeffery Deaver’s “simply outstanding” (San Jose Mercury News) Lincoln Rhyme series!
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The Empty Chair
Jeffery Deaver
496bladzijden
18 uur lezen
4,1(26028)Tarief
Lincoln Rhyme has travelled to a world-famous spinal cord injuries center in North Carolina for some risky, experimental surgery. It may make him a tiny bit better, it may kill him. But before he has a chance to undergo it, the local police department are drafting in Rhyme and Amelia, using their forensic skills to help find two women kidpapped by a psychotic young man known locally as the Insect Boy. After a cat and mouse game through the abandoned swamps of North Carolina, Lincoln and Amelia manage to find him - then Amelia, convinced of his innocence, breaks the boy out of jail. And Lincoln has to find them both, while Amelia uses all the skills her mentor and lover has taught her to evade him. Her actions are to have more disastrous consequence than either of them anticipate . . .
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The Stone Monkey
Jeffery Deaver
528bladzijden
19 uur lezen
4,3(2372)Tarief
Lincoln and Amelia are recruited to track down a cargo ship carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants, as well as the notorious human smuggler and killer known as the Ghost. But when the capture goes disastrously wrong, Lincoln and Amelia find themselves in a race to stop the Ghost before he can track down and murder the two surviving families who have vanished deep into the labyrinthine world of New York City's Chinese community. Over the next forty-eight hours the Ghost ruthlessly hunts for the families while Rhyme, aided by a policeman from mainland China, struggles to find them before they die and Sachs pursues a very different kind of policework - forming a connection with one of the immigrants that may have consequences going to the core of her relationship with her partner and lover, Lincoln Rhyme.
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De illusionist
Jeffery Deaver
4,1(19019)Tarief
Wanneer een moordenaar op heterdaad wordt betrapt, verschanst hij zich in de verwarring in een leeg lokaal; als de politie de deur openbreekt, blijkt hij verdwenen te zijn.
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The Twelfth Card
Jeffery Deaver
546bladzijden
20 uur lezen
4,2(993)Tarief
Lincoln Rhyme & Amelia Sachs are back! A hitman is out to kill a young girl in Harlem. In order to save her Lincoln has to solve a cold case that's over 150 years old. Unlocking a cold case with explosive implications for the future of civil rights, forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme and his protégé, Amelia Sachs, must outguess a killer who has targeted a high school girl from Harlem who is digging into the past of one of her ancestors, a former slave. What buried secrets from 140 years ago could have an assassin out for innocent blood? And what chilling message is hidden in his calling card, the hanged man of the tarot deck? Rhyme must anticipate the next strike or become history—in the bestseller that proves “there is no thriller writer today like Jeffery Deaver” (San Jose Mercury News).
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The Cold Moon
Jeffery Deaver
544bladzijden
20 uur lezen
4,1(16110)Tarief
It's the night of the full Cold Moon - the month of December according to the lunar calendar. A young man is found dead in lower Manhattan, the first in a series of victims of a ruthless killer calling himself the Watchmaker. His obsession with time drives the Watchmaker to plan the murders with the precision of fine timepieces, and the victims die prolonged deaths while an eerie clock ticks away their last minutes on earth. Amelia is not only Lincoln's eyes and ears at crime scenes on the Watchmaker case, but she's now running her own homicide investigation - her first case as lead detective. The policewoman's unwavering efforts in pursuing the killers of a businessman, who left behind a wife and son, sets into motion clockwork gears of its own, with consequences reaching to people and events that will endanger not only many lives but Lincoln's and Amelia's future together.
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Het gebroken raam
Jeffery Deaver
429bladzijden
16 uur lezen
4,1(16570)Tarief
De neef van de grotendeels verlamde speurder en forensisch expert Lincoln Rhyme uit New York wordt ten onrechte verdacht van een roofmoord. Samen met zijn assistente Amelia Sachs gaat Rhyme op zoek naar de echte dader. Zo komt hij op het spoor van een groot data mining-bedrijf en een psychotische seriemoordenaar die met behulp van deze op internet verzamelde informatie het leven van zijn slachtoffers binnendringt, ze berooft, vermoordt en vervolgens via identiteitsdiefstal en geraffineerd vals bewijsmateriaal onschuldige personen zijn misdaden in de schoenen schuift. Spannende, beklemmende en actuele thriller waarin de auteur laat zien wat iemand met kwade opzet allemaal met tegenwoordig vrij makkelijk te verzamelen gegevens teweeg kan brengen. Achtste deel in Deavers thrillerserie over het duo Rhyme en Sachs dat werd geïntroduceerd in 'Tot op het bot' (The bone collector, verfilmd met Denzel Washington en Angelina Jolie). Deaver (1950) is een van de betere Amerikaanse thrillerauteurs, werd meermalen genomineerd voor een Edgar Award, won de British Thumping Good Read Award, en met de stand alone thriller 'Brandend ijs' de Steel Dagger Award 2004
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The Burning Wire
Jeffery Deaver
432bladzijden
16 uur lezen
4,4(812)Tarief
The electrifying ninth Lincoln Rhyme thriller.
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The kill room
Jeffery Deaver
4,2(1057)Tarief
The tenth novel in the critically acclaimed Lincoln Rhyme series, from Number One bestselling author Jeffery Deaver. They are calling it the 'million-dollar bullet': a sniper shot from a near-impossible distance. But there is no crime scene investigation, no evidence, and no co-operation from the local Bahamian police. Ambitious New York district attorney Nance Laurel won't let it go. This murder has all the hallmarks of a contract killing, and she has evidence that the order came from the highest levels of the US government. Putting her career on the line, she calls in independent investigators: Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs. No strangers to controversy, their reputation for seeing what others miss is unparalleled, and she knows they will risk everything - even their lives - to seek the truth . . .
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The skin collector
Jeffery Deaver
4,4(1041)Tarief
In his classic thriller The Bone Collector, Jeffery Deaver introduced readers to Lincoln Rhyme-the nation's most renowned investigator and forensic detective. Now, a new killer is on the loose: a criminal inspired by the Bone Collector. And Rhyme must untangle the twisted web of clues before the killer targets more victims-or Rhyme himself. THE SKIN COLLECTOR The killer's methods are terrifying. He stalks the basements and underground passageways of New York City. He tattoos his victims' flesh with cryptic messages, using a tattoo gun loaded with poison, resulting in an agonizing, painful death. When a connection is made to the Bone Collector-the serial killer who terrorized New York more than a decade ago-Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are immediately drawn into the case. Rhyme, Sachs, and the NYPD must race against time to answer the many questions the investigation uncovers: Whom will the killer attack next? What is the message behind the victims' tattoos? Does the killer's own inking--a fanged centipede sporting a woman's face--hold any significance? And what is his ultimate mission? As time runs out, Rhyme discovers that the past has returned to haunt him in the most troubling way imaginable...
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The steel kiss
Jeffery Deaver
448bladzijden
16 uur lezen
4,2(924)Tarief
Technology is everywhere. It makes our lives easier, our connections faster and journeys quicker. But in the hands of someone smart enough, every piece of technology can be a murder weapon. When an escalator gives way mid-chase, Amelia Sachs is forced to let a killer escape as she helps the man trapped in the depths. Now Sachs and forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme must investigate if the collapse was a freak accident - or whether they are facing a murderer who knows exactly how fatal machines can be.
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The Burial Hour
Jeffery Deaver
466bladzijden
17 uur lezen
3,8(453)Tarief
A businessman snatched from an Upper East Side street in broad daylight. A miniature hangman's noose left at the scene. A nine-year-old girl, the only witness to the crime. With a crime scene this puzzling, forensic expertise of the highest order is absolutely essential. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are called in to investigate. Soon the case takes a stranger turn: a recording surfaces of the victim being slowly hanged, his desperate gasps the backdrop to an eerie piece of music. The video is marked as the work of The Composer ... Despite their best efforts, the suspect gets away. So when a similar kidnapping occurs on a dusty road outside Naples, Italy, Rhyme and Sachs don't hesitate to rejoin the hunt. But the search is now a complex case of international cooperation--and not all those involved may be who they seem. Sachs and Rhyme find themselves playing a dangerous game, with lives all across the globe hanging in the balance.
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The Cutting Edge
Jeffery Deaver
448bladzijden
16 uur lezen
4,1(481)Tarief
Lincoln Rhyme is back - and he and Amelia Sachs must contend with a killer who seems to be targeting couples just as they start out on their lives together. Now a NBC TV series.