A knockout thriller from the "master of ticking-bomb suspense" (People) Jeffery Deaver, featuring his beloved protagonists Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs on the hunt for a criminal whose fascination with breaking locks terrorizes New York City.
A woman awakes in the morning to find that someone has picked her apartment’s supposedly impregnable door lock and rearranged personal items, even sitting beside her while she slept. The intrusion, the police learn, is a message to the entire city of carnage to come. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to investigate and soon learn that the sociopathic intruder, who calls himself "the Locksmith,” can break through any lock or security system ever devised. With more victims on the horizon, Rhyme, Sachs, and their stable of associates must follow the evidence to the man’s lair…and discover his true mission.
Their hunt is interrupted when an internal investigation in the police force uncovers what seems to be a crucial mistake in one of Rhyme's previous cases. He’s fired as a consultant for the NYPD and must risk jail if he investigates the Locksmith case in secret.
Story Locale:New York City
Series Overview: The latest in the popular Lincoln Rhyme series, featuring a quadriplegic detective with incredible reason and logic skills, and NYPD Detective Amelia Sachs as they hunt down criminals in New York City.
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Original Binding: Mass Market
Pages: 528 pages
ISBN-10: 0525536019
Item Weight: 0.6 lbs
Dimensions: 4.2 x 1.0 x 7.6 inches
Customer Reviews: 4 out of 5 stars 1,001 to 10,000 ratings
“The wait has been worth it. This is prime Rhyme: a fiendishly smart villain, bewildering crimes, plenty of plot twists, and Lincoln, the quadriplegic criminalist, is at his cranky, belligerent, brilliantly clever best.” —Booklist
“The dialogue and plotting are as sharp as ever in The Midnight Lock …If the burglar’s break-in feats often resemble magic, so do some of Deaver’s tricks.” —The Sunday Times of London
“Some readers will be aghast in admiration at the nonstop revelations, others impatient for every last T to be crossed so that they can turn the last page and get to sleep before dawn. In the end, everyone will agree that there’s no other detective under the midnight moon like Lincoln Rhyme.” —Kirkus Reviews
Jeffery Deaver is the #1 international bestselling and award-winning author of more than forty novels, three collections of short stories, and a nonfiction law book. His books are sold in 150 countries and translated into twenty-five languages. A former journalist, folk singer, and attorney, he was born outside of Chicago and has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University.
Author Residence: Chapel Hill, NC
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