Lincoln Rhyme et Amelia Sachs Séries

La série suit le brillant expert en médecine légale Lincoln Rhyme et sa partenaire, la détective Amelia Sachs, alors qu'ils résolvent des crimes complexes en utilisant des méthodes scientifiques et un raisonnement déductif. Leurs histoires se déroulent souvent à New York et impliquent des courses-poursuites palpitantes et un drame psychologique. Rhyme, qui est paralysé, compte sur Sachs pour l'aider sur le terrain. Ensemble, ils affrontent divers adversaires dangereux et découvrent des secrets sombres.

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Le Désosseur
Jeffery Deaver
507pages
18 heures de lecture
Lincoln Rhyme était sans doute le criminologue le plus célèbre des Etats-Unis, capable de dresser le portrait complet d'un tueur à partir de quelques indices recueillis sur la scène du crime. Mais Rhyme, blessé lors d'une enquête, n'est plus qu'un grand paralysé, esprit brillant dans un corps inerte, infirme sarcastique dont la seule obsession est d'en finir avec cette vie. Jusqu'à la découverte d'un cadavre enterré au bord d'une voie ferrée, dont seule une main ensanglantée sort de terre. A regret, Rhyme va reprendre du service pour traquer l'assassin du fond de son lit. L'homme est lancé à la poursuite de nouvelles victimes et il faut, pour les sauver, déchiffrer au plus vite les traces qu'il sème sur son passage avec la volonté diabolique de brouiller les pistes. Avec Lincoln Rhyme, Deaver a créé un formidable personnage d'enquêteur, cynique, érudit et d'une précision méthodique. Le Désosseur est un terrifiant cocktail de suspense et de médecine légale. Un film, Bone Collector, adapté du Désosseur a été réalisé par Philip Noyce.
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The Coffin Dancer
Jeffery Deaver
390pages
14 heures de lecture
The Coffin Dancer, America's most wanted hit man, is back. He's been hired by an airline owner who wants three witnesses taken care of before his trial, and has got the first, a pilot, by blowing up his entire plane. Enter quadriplegic ex-cop Lincoln Rhyme, who can find forensic evidence to hang a man in the smallest debris, and his assistant Amelia Sachs. Their job is to keep the remaining two witnesses safe, and to find the Coffin Dancer before he finds them. Because he will find them, and anyone else who tries to get in his way.
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La Place Du Mort
Jeffery Deaver
664pages
24 heures de lecture
Une chance unique s'offre à Lincoln Rhyme, le célèbre criminologue tétraplégique : une intervention chirurgicale pourrait lui rendre partiellement sa mobilité. Mais rien ne se passe comme prévu, et Rhyme se trouve pris au piège d'une machination infernale. Pendant ce temps, la police locale piétine dans une affaire de meurtres. Le suspect, un adolescent surnommé le Cafard, a pris la fuite. Amelia Sachs, la coéquipière de Rhyme, persuade celui-ci de diriger l'enquête. Commence alors une course-poursuite haletante dans de lugubres marais, infestés d'insectes. Mais la capture de l'assassin n'est qu'un début...
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The Stone Monkey
Jeffery Deaver
528pages
19 heures de lecture
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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The vanished man
Jeffery Deaver
416pages
15 heures de lecture
A killer flees the scene of a homicide at a prestigious Manhattan music school and locks himself in a classroom. Within minutes, the police have him surrounded. Then a scream rings out, followed by a gunshot. The police break down the door. The room is empty. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to help with the high-profile investigation. For the ambitious Sachs, solving the case could earn her a promotion. For the quadriplegic Rhyme, it means relying on his prot�g�e to ferret out a master illusionist they've dubbed 'the conjurer', who baits them with gruesome murders that become more diabolical with each fresh crime. As the fatalities rise and the minutes tick down, Rhyme and Sachs must move beyond the smoke and mirrors to prevent a terrifying act of vengeance that could become the greatest vanishing act of all.
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The twelfth card
Jeffery Deaver
544pages
20 heures de lecture
Geneva Settle is a bright young high school student from Harlem writing a paper about one of her ancestors, a former slave called Charles Singleton. Geneva is also the target of a ruthless professional killer. Criminalist Lincoln Rhyme and his policewoman partner Amelia Sachs are called into the case, working frantically to anticipate where the hired gun will strike next and how to stop him, all the while trying to get to the truth of Charles Singleton, and the reason that Geneva has been targeted. For Charles Singleton had a secret – a secret that may strike at the very heart of the United States constitution, and have disastrous consequences for human rights today. And Sachs is going to have to search a crime scene that’s 140 years old before she can stop the killer.
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The Cold Moon
Jeffery Deaver
544pages
20 heures de lecture
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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The Broken Window
Jeffery Deaver
He is watching you. He knows you, better than you know yourself. And he is using his knowledge to plan your death. But you are not his only victim. He is also watching your killer. He is about to get away with the perfect murder . . .
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The Burning Wire
Jeffery Deaver
432pages
16 heures de lecture
The electrifying ninth Lincoln Rhyme thriller.
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Lincoln Rhyme: The Kill Room
Jeffery Deaver
484pages
17 heures de lecture
Renowned investigator and forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme is drafted to investigate the sniper-killing of a U.S. citizen in the Bahamas. While his partner, Amelia Sachs, traces the victim's steps in Manhattan, Rhyme leaves the city to pursue the sniper himself.
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The skin collector
Jeffery Deaver
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
Number one bestselling author and master of suspense Jeffery Deaver returns with the twelfth Lincoln Rhyme thriller.
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The Burial Hour
Jeffery Deaver
466pages
17 heures de lecture
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
Lincoln Rhyme is back - and from his New York townhouse, he and Amelia Sachs must contend with a killer who seems to be targeting couples just as they start out on their lives together.
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