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The Empty Chair

By: Jeffery Deaver
Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
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A quadriplegic since a beam crushed his spinal cord years ago, renowned criminalist Lincoln Rhyme is desperate to improve his condition and goes to the University of North Carolina Medical Center for high-risk experimental surgery. In a 24-hour period, the sleepy Southern outpost of Tanner's Corner has seen a local teen murdered and two young women abducted. And Rhyme and his protégé Amelia Sachs are the best chance to find the girls alive. The prime suspect is a teenaged truant known as the Insect Boy, so nicknamed for his disturbing obsession with bugs. Rhyme agrees to find the boy while awaiting his operation. Rhyme's unsurpassed analytical skills and stellar forensic experience, combined with Sach's exceptional detective legwork, soon snare the perp. But Sachs disagrees with Rhyme's crime analysis and so ensues a battle of wits and forensics between Rhyme and Sachs, this best friend and soul mate.©2000 Jeffery Deaver, All Rights Reserved (P)2000 Simon & Schuster, Inc., All Rights Reserved, AUDIOWORKS Is an Imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Division, Simon & Schuster, Inc. Crime Crime Thrillers Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Forensics
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Another great Lincoln Rhyme story by Jeffery Deaver.

The Empty Chair

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Narration was good and entertaining for the characters other than Rhyme and Sachs. The twist went all the way to the very end of the bood which was great. Wow...how does Deaver do it? Good job.

Wow...the mystery never ends

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I am a big Lincoln Rhyme fan and I love Joe Montana as a reader, but this book was slow, to predictable. I almost didn't finish listening, but I did and it was worth the time.

love the author and reader

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Entertaining, a little offbeat, and more than a touch improbable. Well worth a read.

Strange days in Camp Swampy

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I enjoyed this book despite certain difficulties. The south is a caricature -- rednecks, etc. think Deliverance meets Lincoln Rhyme. But, if you like other Deaver books, you will probably like this one. I had figured out one of the clues before Rhyme -- perhaps that's why I liked it. But the ending is a bit strange. The narrator was good.

Good story; some problems

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i really enjoyed this story - so many twists and turns, it made my head hurt! i loved the character of lincoln rhyme. would love to hear more of him. worth listening to.

complex story - a good listen

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The bad read distracted from the book--Rhyme's and Amelia's reader should be reading nursery rhymes not mystery thrillers--the reader spoiled the book--sorry.

good book; BAD reader!!!

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Is there anything you would change about this book?

If I was the author, sure. The book begins with what should have been a huge event in a Lincoln Rhyme novel. He's been bound to a wheelchair his entire career in every book in his series. He's off to get the "big operation" that could repair him, or kill him. Soon, too soon, Amelia Sachs has him lured into a murder mystery that isn't very clear. I can't even tell you much more beause I got bored with it.

If you???ve listened to books by Jeffery Deaver before, how does this one compare?

I've never, ever not finished a Jeffrey Deaver book. this one didn't hold my interest at all.

Which scene was your favorite?

Well.....I guess I didn't get far enough o have a favorite scene.

Could you see The Empty Chair being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

Funny, I've thought of this before. I'm not exactly referring to this book though. I thought Anjolina Jolie, who starred in "The Bone Collecter" was good at a role she often plays anyway. But in Deaver's books, Amelia Sachs is a beautiful, brave but compassionate detective. Julienne Moore fits that description far beter than A.J.

To play Lincoln, hmmm, very hard to get "Ironsides" out of my mind when I read about him; his nature, sterness, dry sense of humor.....There's an actor named Paul Grose who I can see playing that part well.

Any additional comments?

I'm not abandoning Jeffrey, this one just didn't make the grade, in my mind & I've read many, many of his novels. I was hoping to get to review another book, ANY other book, that I could have given good reviews about! Sorry.

this one doesn't live up to Deaver's other books>>

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