The Empty Chair by Jeffery Deaver - ISBN: 9781444791570
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Risky surgery, kidnapping, and betrayal in a deadly forensic game.

The Empty Chair

A totally heart-stopping crime thriller with a twist from the global bestseller

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  • Paperback

    496 pages

  • Release Date

    13 May 2014

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Summary

Lincoln Rhyme has travelled to a world-famous spinal cord injuries center in North Carolina for some risky, experimental surgery. It may make him a tiny bit better; it may kill him. But before he has a chance to undergo the operation, the local police department is drafting in Rhyme and Amelia, using their forensic skills to help find two women kidnapped by a psychotic young man known locally as the Insect Boy.

After a cat-and-mouse game through the abandoned swamps of North Carolina,…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781444791570
ISBN-10:1444791575
Author:Jeffery Deaver
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Hodder Paperback
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:496
Release Date:13 May 2014
Weight:340g
Dimensions:196mm x 130mm x 36mm
Series:Lincoln Rhyme Thrillers
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Critics Review

The best psychological thriller writer around * The Times *The most creative, skilled and intriguing thriller writer in the world … [Deaver] has produced a stunning series of bestsellers with unique characterisation, intelligent characters, beguiling plots and double-barrelled and sometimes triple-barrelled solutions. * Daily Telegraph *This is a novel that will chill your blood on the warmest day of any summer holiday. Keep looking over your shoulder * Independent on Sunday *

About The Author

Jeffery Deaver

Jeffery Deaver is the award-winning author of two collections of short stories and 31 internationally bestselling novels, including the 2011 James Bond novel Carte Blanche. He is best known for his Lincoln Rhyme thrillers, which include the number one bestsellers The Vanished Man, The Twelfth Card and The Cold Moon, as well as The Bone Collector which was made into a feature film starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. The first Kathryn Dance novel, The Sleeping Doll, was published in 2007 to enormous acclaim. A three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader’s Award for Best Short Story of the year, he has been nominated for an Anthony Award and six Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America. He won the WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award in 2001 and in 2004 won the Crime Writers’ Association Steel Dagger for Best Thriller with Garden of Beasts, and their Short Story Dagger for The Weekender from Twisted. Jeffery Deaver lives in North Carolina and California.

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