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    The Twelfth Card: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel
    The Twelfth Card: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel
    The Twelfth Card: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel
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    The Twelfth Card: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel

    Written by Jeffery Deaver

    Narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris

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    NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION EVENT FROM NBC, STARRING RUSSELL HORNSBY, ARIELLE KEBBEL, AND MICHAEL IMPERIOLI.

    “Deaver’s labyrinthine plots are astonishing”(The New York Times Book Review) in this bestselling thriller featuring a hitman who is out to kill a young girl in Harlem and in order to save her, Lincoln Rhyme has to solve a cold case that’s over 150 years old.

    Unlocking a cold case with explosive implications for the future of civil rights, forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme and his protégé, Amelia Sachs, must outguess a killer who has targeted a high school girl from Harlem who is digging into the past of one of her ancestors, a former slave. What buried secrets from 140 years ago could have an assassin out for innocent blood? And what chilling message is hidden in his calling card, the hanged man of the tarot deck? Rhyme must anticipate the next strike or become history—in the New York Times bestseller that proves “there is no thriller writer today like Jeffery Deaver” (San Jose Mercury News).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJun 7, 2005
    ISBN9780743552387
    Author

    Jeffery Deaver

    Jeffery Deaver is the #1 internationally bestselling author of forty-four novels, three collections of short stories, and a nonfiction law book. His books are sold in 150 countries and translated into twenty-five languages. His first novel featuring Lincoln Rhyme, The Bone Collector, was made into a major motion picture starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie and a hit television series on NBC. He’s received or been shortlisted for a number of awards around the world, including Novel of the Year by the International Thriller Writers and the Steel Dagger from the Crime Writers’ Association in the United Kingdom. In 2014, he was the recipient of three lifetime achievement awards. He has been named a Grand Master by Mystery Writers of America.

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    • 2/5
      Not bad bust too much jumping around from lost of different characters
    • 5/5
      For some weird reason I'm so happy with the ending, Rhymes didn't gave up and finally manage to hold his dearest. I hope he continue with his progress. And as usually nicely well-written by Jeffery Deaver. Ive finally found a masterpiece thru this series.
    • 4/5
      Jeffery Deaver cannot write a really bad book,but on occasionally one comes up this is not up to his usual high standard. 'The Twelfth Card' is one of them. In the first place he has a certain amount of 'gangsta' slang which needs a glossary to understand it. Then he introduces a killer who has a quite unique take on life (and death),but throws the whole thing away towards the end of the book. Not all is lost because when Lincoln Rhyme takes centre stage,the whole thing comes together.
    • 4/5
      This book took a while to read but not because it was dull...apart from time, you find yourself early on reading slowly to take in the scores of clues and information being fed to you as not doing so will catch you out later when something is figured out.The story starts with an attempted murder of a teen girl in a public library, and soon escalates to a murder of the librarian and an injured bystander. The apparent motive is attempted rape, but then strangely takes on a cultish lead and then changes tack to a crime from 140 years previously. As I allluded to, you need to be on your wits with this one as the plot changes almost with every chapter with clues in abundance - but which clues are genuine and which are 'planted'? Enter the brilliant Lincoln Rhyme, a forensic expert which an attitude - if you have seen The Bone Collector, he was played by Denzel Washington...and as good as that movie was, this book is better.I have never read a thriller that throws you off the scent so many times and I challenge anyone to solve it before it is revealed...There is not much I can find wrong with this book - not ruined by romances, Hollywood staging, nor complex plotting. You do need to get up to speed with street talk quite quickly though as this book is riddled with it (being based in Harlem). The portrayal of the hit-man is done perfectly to the point you cannot help but admire by his murderous trade.A must read.
    • 3/5
      Not quite as fast-paced or engaging as some of the other books in this series, but not bad.
    • 3/5
      a little slow to get started but a pretty cool story about a crime committed after the civil war is tied into a a modern day crime....Lincon Ryme is the the investigator in a wheel chair...Geneva Steel is the herione....tuns out the relative owns property in Manhattan and the there is a cover up by a big wall street guy whose ancestor stole the property to keep the property
    • 4/5
      I love Jeffery Deaver. Love the characters. Love the detecting. The plot was a little iffy, but who cares!
    • 4/5
      A satisfying read, packed with Deaver's trade mark twists and turns. Geneva is fantastic creation - a teenager who is determined not to settle for second best - and I love the subtle character development of each of the recurring characters from book to book.
    • 4/5
      Deaver's quadraplegic forensic scientist returns to solve another seemingly unsolvable mystery. Although I didn't find the background to the crime particularly interesting - African-American history, Deaver's recurring characters and their development kept me interested until the end. I just hope for a more interesting mystery next time.
    • 2/5
      This was a fun CSI type novel. A sixteen year old inner city girl from NYC gets caught up in a mystery that is generations old that her ancestor is included in.
      This book includes some history of New York City; linguistics; and forensics.
    • 4/5
      Good entry in the Lincoln Rhyme/Amelia Sachs series. In this outing, a girl escapes from a potential killer and the gang must solve a 140 year old crime in order to solve the current mystery.
    • 4/5
      This was a very convoluted and fluid plot that kept me guessing. Thompson Boyd was a cool customer. Meticulous and careful, he led them around for a while, but then through Rhyme?s equally meticulous and careful deduction, he was caught fairly early in the book. After a few chapters discovering who hired Boyd, I thought the rest of the story would focus around the older mystery. Wrong. It became unpredictable and pretty interesting. Not perfect, but a good outing for Rhyme & Co.
    • 5/5
      I love the comfort of familiar characters (Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs) doing what they do best...solve mysteries. Lots of twists and turns in this thriller. Loved it.
    • 5/5
      Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs try to figure out why someone would attack 16-yr-old Geneva Settle; Geneva had been researching a relative when someone tried the attack; in the end she was attacked because of property inheritance
    • 5/5
      Couldn't put it down--loved it! Can't imagine how Jeffery Deaver's mind works! Wonderful!
    • 4/5
      A good twisting plot and authentic characters. As an author myself the curse laid on me is that I usually work out the plot before it is revealed. Deaver managed to slip the bad guy past me in this book.
    • 4/5
      Let's start with the worst -- the narrator's clipped, serviceable treatment of this work passes, except for the many segments in which he is called upon to emulate dialogue by inner city youth. To hear Dennis Boutsikaris try to accurately use words like "phat" and "word" is like having a needle stuck in your head. However, Deaver's fine, compelling mystery makes this all worthwhile.
    • 4/5
      Didn't quite like the end of the case but well it's still great
    • 4/5
      Lincoln Rhyme is a famous criminalogist, known for solving the case. Even though he is confined to a wheelchair, he always gets his man. This case involves a 15 year old girl and a 150 year old mystery, but of course, he is equal to the task.
    • 4/5
      The Twelfth Card was my third Jeffery Deaver book in which Lincoln Rhyme and his team featured as the good guys. It was a fast paced story which moved along keeping me wanting to read the next chapter and in so doing incurring some late nights/early mornings.

      I thought the book could/would end about 40 pages earlier than it did, however the twists and turns included made every page thereafter worth reading. It may be that I read before going to sleep, but just when I thought that this would be the end, I was proven incorrect. I did not pick the end to this story until the last page!

      A definite 4 star read