Lincoln Rhyme Thrillers Series Books 1 - 7 Collection Set by Jeffery Deaver (Bone Collector, Coffin Dancer, Empty Chair, Stone Monkey, Vanished Man, Twelfth Card & Cold Moon)

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Asshole Victim: After interfering with the investigation and shooting Thom, he deserves what happens to him. Imaginary Enemy: One of his many recurring hallucinations is a pale face in a nearby window, which he imagines to be someone stalking him and witnessing his kills. It turns out the sighting that spawned this was of the Coffin Dancer monitoring him for use as a potential decoy. A maniacal electrician who uses his knowledge of electricity to commit horrific murders, aiming to get his former employers to shut down New York's power grid. In reality, this is all a ruse by the Watchmaker, and Galt has been dead for some time. Sellitto is Rhyme's former partner, and the officers are there to get Rhyme's help on the kidnapping and murder case, but he says he is in no state to help. Sellitto says that all he wants is for Rhyme to look over the case file and give them insight into what it means. The detective explains that the kidnapper still has one hostage they need to find. At this point Rhyme's expected visitor arrives and he asks the detectives to leave, telling them he will read over the case notes. He finds himself drawn into the case, and agrees to work on it with the help of Amelia Sachs as his eyes on the ground.

Deaver's most popular series features Lincoln Rhyme, a quadriplegic detective, and NYPD Detective Amelia Sachs. Fiery Redhead: Downplayed, but she's definitely passionate and slightly Hot-Blooded. Her Establishing Character Moment is stopping a train by herself to preserve a crime scene. Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His brother Peter is the most important person in his life, and one of the few people who can calm him with just a thought. It turns out that Peter actually died in high school, and Vernon has been continuously listening to voice mails and visiting his grave for years. I Have You Now, My Pretty: He would have raped Amelia after killing his targets if Rhyme hadn't figured out who he was and called her.Obfuscating Stupidity: Despite his childlike characteristics, he has managed to remain out of the view of police for years. Killed Offscreen: Jodie, the real Coffin Dancer, lures him in and dismembers him just before he rides out to the safehouse.

As usual, we are confronted with strange things happening (women who discover somebody entered their home without waking them up), and awful things happening (Rhyme gets caught between political games) and really gruesome things happening (read the book for an example) and surprising things happening (my favourite scene is the one in https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... burning building!). Leave No Witnesses: His ultimate goal is finding and killing the immigrants who survived the explosion. Not because they're witnesses to the crime, but because he always meant for them to die.

The Coffin Dancer, aka Stephen Kall

Brother–Sister Incest: As a teenager, he tied up and brutally raped his sister Sally-Anne over the course of several days. She has barely recovered in adulthood, and he still obsessively fixates on her as his one true love. Quella del “Fabbro”, uno psicopatico che si intrufola, di notte, nelle case di donne sole e si limita a spostare degli oggetti e a lasciare un segno del suo passaggio. Un visitatore notturno, disturbato e pericoloso, capace di scassinare qualsiasi serratura e dunque di entrare dove vuole. Quando la faccenda di tinge di rosso, si fa ancora più seria. E Amelia e Rhyme, ormai sposati, ci si buttano a capofitto, nonostante le restrizioni giunte dall' “alto” che vorrebbero allontanare lui, a causa dell’errore giudiziario in un altro caso parallelo che lo ha visto protagonista. Trash of the Titans: 522 is a compulsive hoarder, and his beloved "Closet" is a labyrinth of trophies and junk, much of which is taken from his victims. Fittingly, this is where he dies. Dead Person Impersonation / Faking the Dead: He destroyed his life as tech genius Peter Gordon and faked his own death, then murdered John Rollins and stole his identity, all for the sake of working with Andrew Sterling. LON SELLITTO: Lon Sellitto is a detective who works for the NYPD and specializes in homicide cases. He is assigned the case of a kidnapping and homicide in the first novel of the series that takes place at the airport. Being Lincoln Rhyme’s ex-partner, he is also assigned to persuade him to help with the kidnapping case. The twenty-year veteran somehow manages to accomplish this unenviable task and teams up with Lincoln for solving all the future cases as well.

Hero Antagonist: Briefly in The Empty Chair, when she joins up with Garret and therefore becomes Rhyme's enemy. A psychotic mercenary and main villain of The Coffin Dancer. An ex-soldier turned Professional Killer, he ventures to New York with a list of targets related to an airline company and sets about methodically eliminating them with bombs and high-powered weaponry. However, in reality, he is not the Coffin Dancer that is being searched for, and is merely a puppet of the other assassin.

Ron Talbot

The Alcoholic: Drinking is his favorite pastime, even after he's no longer doing it to shield himself from suicidal pain. Faux Affably Evil: He maintains his charm and politeness even when he's pouring what he thinks is toxic pesticide on Lincoln's face.

I've read and loved every single book featuring criminalist Lincoln Rhyme (this is the 15th), and I'm pretty sure of one thing: I probably wouldn't like him a lot - he's more than a little bit on the arrogant side. That said, there's no one I'd rather have investigating a case in which I'm an innocent suspect than the master of evidence. This book did nothing to change that opinion and maybe enhanced it given the restraints that are placed on him and his team of experts. Lightning Gun: His first act of electrical terrorism sees him use a severed high-powered wire and creative sabotaging and redirection to create a massive arc flash, which shoots out and almost strikes a city bus.For the Evulz: He doesn't have any particular reason for killing and framing whom he chooses to — he just likes to see people squirm. Even his dark past doesn't explain certain depths to which he sinks, such as stalking Robert Jorgensen — a total stranger — and systematically destroying everything he wants from life over the course of years.