#37 in Thriller
The Bone Collector
- 433
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Bone Collector” is a tense forensic thriller built around a remarkable mind: Lincoln Rhyme, a criminalist who is almost entirely paralysed. Injured at a crime scene, he works by intellect, and the book’s pleasure is watching evidence turn into deduction. Some readers who came to it from the film prefer the novel. It opens a series, runs to more than four hundred pages and stays dark throughout: detection that is all brain.
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About the book
The Bone Collector is a 1997 thriller novel by American writer Jeffery Deaver. The book introduces the character of Lincoln Rhyme, a quadriplegic forensic criminalist.
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.1 across 248 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 63% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Thriller average of 7.6. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.0 | 10 | 4% |
| Hardcover | 8.1 | 238 | 96% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Bone Collector?
It has 433 pages — longer than 50% of the ranked books in Thriller.
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