The midnight lock / Jeffery Deaver.
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TextSeries: Deaver, Jeffery. Lincoln Rhyme novel ; 15.Publisher: New York : Random House Large Print, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: Large print editionDescription: 556 pages (large print) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780593395646Subject(s): Rhyme, Lincoln, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Sachs, Amelia, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Rhyme, Lincoln, (Fictitious character) | Sachs, Amelia, (Fictitious character) | Rhyme, Lincoln (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Suspense fiction | Detective and mystery stories | Forensic scientists -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | Murderers -- Fiction | Large type books | Forensic pathologists -- Fiction | Quadriplegics -- Fiction | Locksmiths -- Fiction | Police -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction | Burglars -- Fiction | FICTION / Thrillers / Crime | FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General | FICTION / Crime | Police | Forensic pathologists | Locksmiths | Quadriplegics | Forensic pathologists -- Fiction | Locksmiths -- Fiction | Quadriplegics -- Fiction | Police -- Fiction | Thieves -- Fiction | Large print books | Large type books | Burglars | large print books | New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction | New York (State) -- New York | New York (N.Y.) -- FictionGenre/Form: Large Print books | Suspense fiction. | Mystery fiction. | Large type books | Thrillers (Fiction). | Detective and mystery fiction. | Fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction. | Thrillers (Fiction). DDC classification: 813/.54 Summary: A woman awakes in the morning to find that someone has picked her apartment’s supposedly impregnable door lock and rearranged personal items, even sitting beside her while she slept. The intrusion, the police learn, is a message to the entire city of carnage to come. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to investigate and soon learn that the sociopathic intruder, who calls himself 'the Locksmith,' can break through any lock or security system ever devised. With more victims on the horizon, Rhyme, Sachs and their stable of associates must follow the evidence to the man’s lair and discover his true mission. Their hunt is interrupted when an internal investigation in the police force uncovers what seems to be a crucial mistake in one of Rhyme’s previous cases. He’s fired as a consultant for the NYPD and must risk jail if he investigates the Locksmith case in secret. The Midnight Lock is a roller-coaster read that takes place over just a few days’ time, features surprise after surprise and offers a fascinating look at the esoteric world of lockpicking.
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Sequel to: The cutting edge.
A woman awakes in the morning to find that someone has picked her apartment’s supposedly impregnable door lock and rearranged personal items, even sitting beside her while she slept. The intrusion, the police learn, is a message to the entire city of carnage to come. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to investigate and soon learn that the sociopathic intruder, who calls himself 'the Locksmith,' can break through any lock or security system ever devised. With more victims on the horizon, Rhyme, Sachs and their stable of associates must follow the evidence to the man’s lair and discover his true mission. Their hunt is interrupted when an internal investigation in the police force uncovers what seems to be a crucial mistake in one of Rhyme’s previous cases. He’s fired as a consultant for the NYPD and must risk jail if he investigates the Locksmith case in secret. The Midnight Lock is a roller-coaster read that takes place over just a few days’ time, features surprise after surprise and offers a fascinating look at the esoteric world of lockpicking.
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