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Top reviews from India. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Verified Purchase. I had seen the movie when it was released years back and read the novel just now. The movie version does follow the novel but deviates a bit towards the end. But hey, it is called fiction for a reason. To sum up, it is another good Deaver's book I found and I enjoyed it.
Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs, although not my favourite fiction characters, make a really well working duet and I will certainly follow their other scary cases. The Bone Collector is a gory, suspenseful horror that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
The first chapter starts with Officer Sachs, who is checking out a crime scene. Little does she know that she will find the mangled remains of the first victim of the Bone Collector. Lincoln Rhyme is a brilliant person. He is an angered man because many years ago he was in an accident that made him a quadriplegic, but when the killings get brutal, the police have no one else to turn to but him. The Bone Collector is also an angry man. All three characters are thrown together for a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Sachs and Lincoln must figure out the clues, while the Bone Collector fights to stay sane before time runs out, and another person goes missing. This book was overall a well written and good read. The pros of the book are that it is very descriptive and the attention to detail is one of the books best qualities. This story is exciting, scary, mysterious, suspenseful, and action-packed and as scary as tripping during a stampede. Excellent read. I really enjoyed this and was almost shouting at the main characters.
This story really pulls you along with an excellent twist at the end I've not seen the film. Wish I'd read this sooner, thoroughly enjoyable. The PremiseLincoln Rhyme is a world leading forensic criminalist — or rather, he was. Rendered a quadriplegic by an accident at work, Rhyme has gradually rejected the world around him and has now only wishes to die.
As he is only able to move one finger below his neck, he is trying to talk someone into helping him commit suicide. When old colleagues approach him seeking help with a new and gruesome case, he is drawn back into the tense world of crime solving. At each crime scene, the killer leaves clues to the next. Can Rhyme solve them in time? And will he still want to die when the case is over? However, his physical flaw is an unusually harsh one and does make this story have a different feel to those with similarly grouchy lead characters.
His disability has allowed him to gradually restrict his interest and involvement with the world to his interaction with one aide, Thom, and his misery is apparent. His condition guarantees a certain level of sympathy, so even when he treats victims with shocking carelessness he never becomes a cruel figure but remains vulnerable.
What could the skeleton of the snake possibly mean? Where exactly did that dirt come from? Why the fondness for the name Hanna? Amelia Sachs is enduring her last day of Patrol before transferring into Public Affairs when she is asked to investigate a sighting of a body. A man has been buried and his hand is stretching out of the earth. As the main female character in a crime novel, Sachs also has to have secrets, flaws and be generally unhappy.
Fair enough. I found the deepening relationship the only boring aspect of the novel. Interestingly, her past is one that could come back someday, so I thought Deaver laid the groundwork effectively for something to happen later on in the series. Reading parts of this book was a little like watching CSI. Personally, I felt that the details were very relevant since the criminal actually knew forensics too and was trying to play some kind of game with the police. Of course, I really enjoy watching CSI precisely because of the focus on evidence, so the similarity would appeal to me.
Although the forensics are the main focus there is sufficient focus on running about trying to save lives, interviewing witnesses and developing motives for the plot to feel well rounded. The killer turns out to have an interesting blueprint and as that is gradually revealed his motives begin to come to light. Neatly tied upWhen I finished reading the book I felt pleasantly satisfied.
Everything was resolved in a sufficiently plausible manner and the book felt self-contained. I liked that there was no pressure to read the next book in that there are no big cliff-hangers forcing you to purchase number two in the series.
I would be interested in the next book, but I like not feeling pressurised by a false ending. I liked the twists and turns as the ending approached. I particularly liked the punch line involving the final victims, which tied off a thread that had seemed a little random.
I felt the story kept my interest very well because, by the end, I had forgotten a detail that I meant to keep in mind because I was following events so closely. When that detail returned I liked the way it fitted in with what had gone before. The chapters are organised into sections which are headed up by days and times. The whole action of the story takes place over four days and there is so much happening in terms of the investigation that I did find it hard to find a good stopping point.
Some readers have complained about the realism of the novel. I have to admit that it does not sound particularly feasible. However, I thought that more generally the protocols and behaviour of the various officers was convincing and I did not find the rather less realistic elements distracted from my interest in the story.
I found it to be tightly plotted and consistently interesting. The characters are rather stereotypical and their burgeoning relationship a slight distraction from the real story, but I found it interesting following the threads of the case as they unravelled.
The structure of the story trying to keep one step ahead of the killer is not new but is well handled. If you like crime fiction that focuses on forensics and genius detectives then this would suit you. This is the first in the Lincoln Rhyme series of crime novels. It has one of the most deadly killers who commits some truly horrendous murders throughout the book.
Anyone reading this series would do well to take the books in strict order if at all possible. As is usually the case with me,I read them as I find them,and of course started late and have only just read this,the first one!. Rhyme is virtually immobile from a terrible accident and is paralysed from the neck down.
Before the accident he was a brilliant forensic criminalist but now he is strongly considering suicide. Then a case comes along of such fascination,that he becomes interested in spite of himself. It helps that a beautiful,but deeply flawed police officer called Amelia Sachs is part of the investigation of the murder of a man,buried up to his neck and with his finger literally scraped down to the bone.
The man's companion has been abducted. This is just the start of a number of awful killings committed by the man they call The Bone Collector.
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