The Twelfth Card (A Lincoln Rhyme Novel)
by Jeffery Deaver
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Author: Jeffery DeaverEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-04-18
ISBN: 0743491564
Number of pages: 576
Publisher: Pocket Star
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Book Review: Forensic science suspense mystery
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Twelfth Card" begins in an Afro-American museum-library. A skinny lass scrolls through a microfiche, absorbed in research for a high school term paper. Hidden in the bookshelves, a stalker creeps forward with dark intentions....
The Lincoln Rhyme novels resemble a Sherlock Holmes story, or an episode of the TV series "CSI." The killer eventually succumbs to rigorous examination of clues left behind.
Jeffrey Deaver's main characters stand out for two reasons: One is that the hero is paralyzed in all four limbs, a quadriplegic. The other is his female sidekick. In her cherry-red Camaro, Amelia Sachs races at incredible velocities to save the day, sharpshooting with her finger-sensitive automatic pistol; or in her white hazard suit, she walks the crime-scene grid and collects evidence. Audio-visual gimmicks allow Lincoln Rhyme to accompany her at the grid. He collates the data in a wheelchair, connected to his computerized laboratory. And of course Rhyme makes brilliant deductions.
Though this was my sixth reading of a Lincoln Rhyme suspense-mystery, Deaver still managed to create moments of genuine suspense as well as mystery. I did not, however, read the six books in succession. I advise against that. Deaver uses a formatted recipe, and if you read the stories in succession you will be saying, "This is just the same old thing." Allow a few months, if not a full year, between readings; read other authors; and understand that the goodness of these stories lies not in the sameness of their overall pattern, but in the variety of their details. Deaver tries to set his events in colorful locales, and he always gives salient qualities and personalities to his characters. He also provides historical, political, and scientific background. Details, details, details.
If you are pleased by interesting characters, by fairly plausible action sequences, by prose that reads easily and progresses at a fairly fast pace, or by a story with multiple twists, this novel has something to offer. Just remember to intersperse your Lincoln Rhyme adventures with books by other authors.
Summary of The Twelfth Card (A Lincoln Rhyme Novel)
Unlocking a cold case with explosive implications for the future of civil rights, forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme and his protégé, Amelia Sachs, must outguess a killer who has targeted a high school girl from Harlem who is digging into the past of one of her ancestors, a former slave. What buried secrets from 140 years ago could have an assassin out for innocent blood? And what chilling message is hidden in his calling card, the hanged man of the tarot deck? Rhyme must anticipate the next strike or become history -- in the bestseller that proves "there is no thriller writer today like Jeffery Deaver" (San Jose Mercury News).Literature & Fiction Books
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