Name: The Empty Chair
ISBN: 9780684855639

Jeffery Deaver

The Empty Chair

Peggy Walker

This is a Lincoln Rhyme book that I had missed up to this point. It has a nice twist in that Amelia Sachs is really the lead character in this particular story. It's a good mystery, a captivating read, with some interesting psychological twists. Recommended.

Siya S

A very strong 4 right here. 

OH. MY. GOD Jeffery Deaver did it again!! The last 1/3 of this book alone is a series of WILD plot twist that's crazy enough to make it up to all the laggings this third installment has put me through.

And yes, I've plunged headfirst into the series and finished 3 books in a row. 

Again, I didn't like the whole storyline at time, but by the end it didn't really matter. The revelation hit me pretty hard. I mean, I can see now that Jeffery Deaver loves his characters enough not to give a bad, undeserved ending, but hell the journey toward that point was sure tough as hell.

In this book, the trio (Rhyme, Sachs, Thom) found themselves in North Carolina for Rhyme's special medical treatments. Again, like a harbinger of evil that they were, awful crime followed them all the way to the middle of sad-looking, deadend town called Tanner's corner. Running lose over there was a kid known as the Insect Boy, because well, he's a biophelia who loved small creatures and basically creeped everyone out. Then shit happened and two girls went missing. Fast forward and Sachs became a rogue cop (mild spoiler here). And the whole town erupted like a disturbed hornet's nest. It was a hell of a roller-coaster ride of a plot, man.

Again, great character development! I love everyone in this series (esp. Thom) I ended up loving the (alleged) villain again, which is pretty alarming, this has to stop at some point I guess lol

Rowan Myers

These books are like Michael Bay movies for people who read; they're fun, they go fast, and you might remember a few things about them in a year, but not too much.

Beck Krystal

Lincoln Rhyme has travelled to a world-famous spinal cord injuries center in North Carolina for some risky, experimental surgery. It may make him a tiny bit better, it may kill him. But before he has a chance to undergo it, the local police department are drafting in Rhyme and Amelia, using their forensic skills to help find two women kidpapped by a psychotic young man known locally as the Insect Boy. After a cat and mouse game through the abandoned swamps of North Carolina, Lincoln and Amelia manage to find him - then Amelia, convinced of his innocence, breaks the boy out of jail. And Lincoln has to find them both, while Amelia uses all the skills her mentor and lover has taught her to evade him. Her actions are to have more disastrous consequence than either of them anticipate . . .

Kate Lillie

Aubrey Hicks

Fran Lewis

Jessica Deaner

Kathy Rodger 

Tela Lautzenheiser

Bee 

Renowned criminalist Lincoln Rhyme faces his ultimate opponent: a kidnapper and murderer dubbed the Insect Boy. But Rhyme is in for a surprise when he learns that catching a criminal is one thing...and keeping him is another. Now Rhyme, in North Carolina to undergo risky spinal cord surgery, finds himself hunting a ruthless killer in the heart of a southern swampland -- and going head-to-head with his protégé, Amelia Sachs, in a rivalry that tests the limits of both their expertise and their love.

The Empty Chair

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