21. Jeffrey Deaver - The Bone Collector
"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
Eh. I should have paid attention to the other reviews of this book which complained it had cookie-cutter characters and a very predictable plot. It took me a while to read it and now I'm wondering if it was worth it. This is one of the few times that I will admit the movie was better than the book.
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
Eh. I should have paid attention to the other reviews of this book which complained it had cookie-cutter characters and a very predictable plot. It took me a while to read it and now I'm wondering if it was worth it. This is one of the few times that I will admit the movie was better than the book.
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