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The Bone Collector

The First Lincoln Rhyme Novel

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The Bone Collector

By: Jeffery Deaver
Narrated by: Connor O'Brien
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Don't miss the NBC television series Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for The Bone Collector.

The first novel in the New York Times best-selling series featuring forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme - from the author of The Never Game.

Lincoln Rhyme was once a brilliant criminologist, a genius in the field of forensics - until an accident left him physically and emotionally shattered. But now a diabolical killer is challenging Rhyme to a terrifying and ingenious duel of wits. With police detective Amelia Sachs by his side, Rhyme must follow a labyrinth of clues that reaches back to a dark chapter in New York City’s past - and reach further into the darkness of the mind of a madman who won’t stop until he has stripped life down to the bone.

Includes the short story “A Perfect Plan” and a chapter from The Midnight Lock.

©2014 Jeffery Deaver (P)2014 Penguin Audio
Crime Thrillers Fiction Police Procedural Psychological Serial Killers Suspense Thriller Mystery Scary Exciting Detective Forensics
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About the Creator - Jeffery Deaver

About the Creator

Jeffery Deaver is an international number-one bestselling author. His books are sold in 150 countries and have been translated into 25 languages. He has served two terms as president of Mystery Writers of America, and was recently named a Grand Master of MWA, whose ranks include Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, Mary Higgins Clark, and Walter Mosley.
The author of 43 novels, three collections of short stories and a nonfiction law book, and a lyricist of a country-western album, he’s received or been shortlisted for dozens of awards. His The Bodies Left Behind was named Novel of the Year by the International Thriller Writers, and his Lincoln Rhyme thriller, The Broken Window, and a stand-alone, Edge, were also nominated for that prize. The Garden of Beasts won the Steel Dagger from the Crime Writers Association in England. He’s also been nominated for eight Edgar Awards by the MWA.
Deaver has been honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention, Strand Magazine’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Raymond Chandler Lifetime Achievement Award in Italy
Deaver's most recent works are Hunting Time, a Colter Shaw novel, and The Broken Doll, a four-story collection from Amazon Original Stories. His Shaw novel, The Never Game, will be a CBS Prime-time series later this year.

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Interesting book, but it's too bad the narrator sounds like a robot. Listen to the clip to see if you can put up with it for an extended period of time.

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not the most enjoyable listen

the story was great. the reader sounded like a robot. will check out more by this author and hope for a better reader.

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did Stephen Hawking narrate this?

not sure how many bad reviews this narration needs before the publisher will remake it

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Narration is awful!

I really enjoyed this story very much but had to grit my teeth at the narration! It was only tolerable because I wanted to start this series at the beginning as I always do. I'm a fanatic about listening to series books in order. I noticed that the rest of the series has different narrators so I continued with this one hoping the future narrators are better!

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Good story, questionable narration

I really enjoyed the story but hated the narration just seconds in. The "voices" are okay, but the rest of the narration sounds horribly robotic. I actually thought Microsoft Dave/Stephen Hawking was reading until I realized it was a different person. I think it would have been more interesting if that was so, given Lincoln's condition. So, for my own sanity, I decided it was a conscious effort and purposeful, and decided it lended an interesting element, but be aware it's probably just a poor performance.

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Yes, the narrator is very bad.

I agree with the review that compares the narrator to that of a GPS unit. The performance is like this for 9/10ths of the book.

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Love the storyline. Reader is boring. Though he changes voices his voice don’t match the feelings and emotion that the book emotes

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Narration was terrible beyond words.

Character were interesting and the story attention getting. The Kindle robot voice would have been better.

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Crippled by a TERRIBLE Performer

I knew the movie and was interested in the show. Learning this story was actually a book series I came here to partake. The story was great and I was thrilled to get a deeper story of Lincoln from what was even in the movie. The guy performance on this production was basically garbage. During the first few minutes I was worried the performed wasn't even human but a text-to-speech program. I will stay away from this Performer at all cost in the future.

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robot reader

The story is a 5 star but almost couldn't stand the reader. He sounded like a computer reading.

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