The Empty Chair
- 464
- Pages
- about 9 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Empty Chair” is an action-heavy third Lincoln Rhyme thriller, set in a small town and built around a kidnapping. Jeffery Deaver keeps the investigation moving, and once again everything hinges on painstaking analysis of the evidence. Some readers feel the forensic showmanship goes a little far and find a few characters hard to warm to. Readers who have followed Rhyme from the first book will get the most from it.
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About the book
The Empty Chair is a crime novel by American writer Jeffery Deaver, published in 2000. It is the third novel in a series featuring Lincoln Rhyme; the first of which was made into a movie, The Bone Collector.
Reading order · Lincoln Rhyme
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.5 across 59 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 29% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Thriller average of 7.6. That is how 7.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.5 | 59 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Empty Chair?
It has 464 pages — longer than 72% of the ranked books in Thriller.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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