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
NYPD criminalist Lincoln Rhyme joins his beautiful protégé, Amelia Sachs, in the hunt for the Coffin Dancer -- an ingenious killer who changes appearance even faster than he adds to his trail of victims. They have only one clue: the madman has a tattoo of the Grim Reaper waltzing with a woman. Rhyme must rely on his wits and intuition to track the elusive murderer through New York City -- knowing they have only forty-eight hours before the Coffin Dancer strikes again.
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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
548pages
20 heures de lecture
The page-turning New York Times bestseller from Jeffery Deaver’s “simply outstanding” (San Jose Mercury News) Lincoln Rhyme series! The FBI has recruited forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme and his protégée, Amelia Sachs, to capture “the Ghost,” a homicidal immigrant smuggler. But when they corner him aboard a cargo ship, the bust goes disastrously wrong and the Ghost escapes. Now the killer must eliminate two families who witnessed his flight before they jumped ship and vanished. . . . Searching New York City’s Chinatown, can Rhyme and Sachs find the Ghost’s targets before he does?
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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
Rhyme's cousin has been arrested for murder. The evidence clearly shows he did it, but Rhyme agrees to check things out. It turns out that the cousin along with other people has been wrongly convicted because the true killer knows every single detail about the lives of the victims he kills and the men he sets up to take the fall for those crimes. This allows him to get close to the victims under false pretenses, murder or rape, and escape safely. And then he sets up others to take the fall for his crimes, planting incontrovertible evidence... Rhyme, Sachs and the rest of the team have to find out who at the huge, ominous data mining company is getting access to this information. Meanwhile the villain--known only by a number to us--realizes he's being pursued and turns his knowledge of data and information into a weapon. Oh, and lest things seem too delicate, he also gets information through good old-fashioned murder and torture too...
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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
438pages
16 heures de lecture
COPYCAT? OR REVENGE? They have never seen a murder like it. A talented tattoo artist is using poison instead of ink. His victim is a young woman. And on her skin he's left a message: 'the second'. Drafted in to investigate, NYPD detective Lincoln Rhyme and his associate Amelia Sachs find the scene has been scrubbed of evidence. All except for one trace - a scrap of paper that connects this case with one they will never forget. And like the Bone Collector before him, Rhyme and Sachs find themselves pitted against a twisted serial killer choosing his victims seemingly at random, a perpetrator who plans his work to the last detail, in a deadly contest with any who try to stop him. But how close is his connection with that old case? What is the meaning of the words tattooed in poison on the skin of his first victim? And where will he strike next?
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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
The only leads in a broad-daylight kidnapping are the account of an 8-year-old girl, some nearly invisible trace evidence and the calling card: a miniature noose left lying on the street. A crime scene this puzzling demands forensic expertise of the highest order. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are called in to investigate. Then 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, 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
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The Cutting Edge
Jeffery Deaver
368pages
13 heures de lecture
Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs return to New York City from their honeymoon in Italy to discover a killer is terrorizing New York City. Dubbed the Fiancé Killer, their latest foe targets newly engaged couples by following them into jewelry stores, ending the couples' lives just before they can purchase the ring that symbolizes the future that will never be theirs. As panic grips the city, Rhyme and Sachs quickly spring into action with the full weight of the NYPD backing up the pair's forensic brilliance. But the killer proves elusive, and his agenda is much more than first meets the eye. Soon it becomes clear that the closer Rhyme and Sachs draw to the killer, the closer the killer draws to them. And their foe soon notices that there's something especially arresting about the ring Rhyme gave Sachs--something that could cost both of them their lives.
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