The Twelfth Card
(JEFFREY DEAVER)
Quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme returns in Jeffery Deaver''s The
Twelfth Card You
may remember Rhyme from The Bone Collector (either the book or the movie
starring Denzel Washington. This time out, Rhyme must look into the case of
Geneva Settle, a Harlem high-school girl who
survived a rape/murder attempt while doing research at a library. It seems
there may be some connection between Geneva''s
term-paper research on a freed-slave ancestor and the attempt on her life. In
order to connect the dots, Rhyme and his assistant, Amelia Sachs, will have to
delve into a seriously cold case, one that is some 140 years old. Deaver is
superb at plotting; he seamlessly weaves in the story of a post-Civil War
conspiracy, high-level modern-day financial chicanery and the calculating
iciness of a nondescript assassin. Red herrings abound, and each epiphany seems
to unearth another facet of the dense mystery. In The Twelfth Card, more
than in previous books, the character of Lincoln Rhyme is fleshed out?cracks
are beginning to appear in his stony facade, a change that will be welcomed by
compassionate readers. The dialogue is especially crisp; Deaver displays a feel
for street vernacular virtually unparalleled in modern crime fiction.
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