The Empty Chair
A totally heart-stopping crime thriller with a twist from the global bestseller
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- 5,99 €
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'OMG! Jeffery Deaver I think just gave the term twists and turns a new name, he hit the ball right out of the park with this one!!' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Outstanding! This series is so good! I thought that I had this one figured out, but not even close. The twists and turns just keep on going! Twists, on twists on twists... Can't wait for the next one' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
You've followed a killer into a swamp. Hopefully you'll find him before he gets to his next victims. But you'd better watch out - the Insect Boy doesn't need his own hands to kill . . .
Sick of his debilitating injuries, 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 draft Rhyme and his partner Amelia into a shocking new case. Using their forensic skills the pair desperately try to track down 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, Lincoln and Amelia finally manage to find him - except suddenly Amelia, convinced of his innocence, breaks the boy out of jail. And it's left to Lincoln to find them both, while Amelia uses all the skills her mentor and lover has taught her to evade him.
But her actions are to have more disastrous consequences than either of them could anticipate . . .
Everyone is gripped by The Empty Chair:
'Another winner. The twists and turns this book took amazed me and kept me reading' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Okay wow. That was an incredibly wild ride... It just kept twisting right up until the very end... I'm extremely invested in these characters now. I NEED MORE' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Just when you think you've figured out all the twists, there's another. Fast paced and a great ride' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Thrilling in every sense of the word! Action packed from start to finish! I could never have guessed that ending' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Full of heart stopping thrills from beginning to end!' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Wow... Just wow... This book completely captured my attention, I took it everywhere with me so I could read it at any chance that I got. This is another brilliant novel written by the amazing Jeffery Deaver... I got it completely wrong as to what happened I thought that I had it all figured out and then it turns out that I knew nothing, it just took over my mind completely. The way he describes the crime scenes and the characters you can close your eyes and follow them, see what they see in your mind. I can't praise Jeffery Deaver enough another amazing novel!' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'The most creative, skilled and intriguing thriller writer in the world' Daily Telegraph
'Deaver is a masterful storyteller' Daily Express
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Lincoln Rhyme, the gruff quadriplegic detective and forensic expert of Bone Collector fame, strays far from his Manhattan base to a spooky North Carolina backwater in this engrossing and outlandish tale about the hunt for evil. The hick town is called Tanner's Corner, where Rhyme--in North Carolina for experimental surgery--has been called by the local sheriff to oversee the search for a kidnapper and his victims. The kidnapper is 16-year-old Garrett Hanlon, a local youth of ill repute whose obsession with bugs has earned him the nickname "The Insect Boy." His captives are Mary Beth McConnell, who Hanlon has stalked for months, and local nurse Lydia Johansson, who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. A marathon chase ensues across North Carolina's perilous swampland by sheriff deputies and Rhyme's assistant and lover, Amelia Sachs. Rhyme, a former New York City cop whose on-the-job injury several years earlier left him with movement in only one finger, directs the search from his wheelchair at sheriff headquarters. As he examines forensic evidence from the crime scenes and points along the search route, Rhyme grows increasingly suspicious about which players are the good guys and which are masking their evil intentions. The story grows heavy in the middle, but eventually takes several of Deaver's trademark twists, cleverly camouflaged for maximum effect. The characters surrounding Rhyme in his third adventure are colorful, back-country cutouts who serve their purpose well. In the end, it's all a bit hard to swallow--particularly the ultimate revelations about Tanner's Corner and its strange inhabitants--but for thrills and surprises, Deaver is still aces.
