The Coffin Dancer (1998)
Detective Lincoln Rhyme, the foremost criminalist in the NYPD, is put on the trail of the Coffin Dancer, a cunning professional killer who has continually eluded the police. Rhymes —-a quadriplegic since a line-of-duty accident — must use his wits to track this brilliant killer who’s been hired to eliminate three witnesses in the last hours before their grand jury testimony. Rhyme works with his eyes and ears, New York City cop Amelia Sachs, to gather information from trace evidence at the crime scene to nail him, or at least to predict his next move and head him off.
So far, they have only one clue: the assassin has a tattoo on his arm of the Grim Reaper waltzing with a woman in front of a coffin.
Praise
“Author Deaver is just as cunning and deceptive as his killer”
—Kirkus Reviews
“superb plotting and brisk, no-nonsense prose”
—Publishers Weekly
Also In This Series
- The Watchmaker’s Hand (2023)
- The Midnight Lock (2021)
- The Cutting Edge (2018)
- The Burial Hour (2017)
- The Steel Kiss (2016)
- The Skin Collector (2014)
- The Kill Room (2013)
- The Burning Wire (2010)
- The Broken Window (2008)
- The Cold Moon (2006)
- The Twelfth Card (2005)
- The Vanished Man (2003)
- The Stone Monkey (2002)
- The Empty Chair (2000)
- The Bone Collector (1997)