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The midnight lock /

Deaver, Jeffery,

The midnight lock / - 434 pages ; 24 cm. - A Lincoln Rhyme novel ; 16 .

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.

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Rhyme, Lincoln (Fictitious character) --Fiction.
Sachs, Amelia (Fictitious character) --Fiction.


Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Forensic pathologists--Fiction.
Forensic scientists--Fiction.
Locksmiths--Fiction.
Burglars--Fiction.
Murderers--Fiction.
Quadriplegics--Fiction.
Police--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.


New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.


Detective and mystery fiction.
Novels.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Novels.

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