Order of Lincoln Rhyme Books
Lincoln Rhyme is the most popular character of American author Jeffery Deaver. The Lincoln Rhyme character is a quadriplegic detective. He has been portrayed in film by Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington in the movie The Bone Collector (co-starring Angelina Jolie), which was released in 1999.
The Lincoln Rhyme book series started in 1997 with The Bone Collector and continues to this day. Jeffery Deaver has announced that he will be coming out with a Lincoln Rhyme novel every other year – alternating with his new Kathryn Dance series.
Below is a list of Jeffery Deaver’s Lincoln Rhyme series in order of when the books were published:
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Publication Order of Lincoln Rhyme Books
| The Bone Collector | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Coffin Dancer | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Empty Chair | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Stone Monkey | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Vanished Man | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Twelfth Card | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Cold Moon | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Broken Window | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Burning Wire | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Kill Room | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Skin Collector | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Steel Kiss | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Burial Hour | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Cutting Edge | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Midnight Lock | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Swiping Hearts | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Watchmaker's Hand | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Lincoln Rhyme Short Stories/Novellas
| A Textbook Case | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rhymes With Prey: Lincoln Rhyme vs. Lucas Davenport | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Deliveryman | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Perfect Plan | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Note: Rhymes with Prey also features Lucas Davenport and was written with John Sandford.
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Lincoln Rhyme Synopses: The main character of The Bone Collector is a forensic scientist named Lincoln Rhyme, who his peers regard as “the world’s foremost criminalist.” Rhyme has uncanny reasoning skills along with a considerable selection of gadgets which he will need to solve the case of a serial killer. He is also a quadriplegic and only has the use of one finger. The Bone Collector was adapted into the 1999 film.
In The Coffin Dancer, three witnesses to a murder could be the key to putting a big-time arms dealer behind bars. When one of them is killed in a airplane bombing, only Lincoln Rhyme is able to keep up with the killer. With the help of Amelia Sachs, can Rhyme track the culprit throughout Manhattan?
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