I’ve enjoyed a number of Jeffrey Dever’s novels over the years, but this one does not cut it for me. After losing my Kindle in a taxi when I was out of the country and was having trouble downloading new books, I felt like I was a captive audience to the audiobooks I had already downloaded to my phone. So I did finish it. This book was part of the Lincoln Rhyme novels, which was a very successful series. The first one, The Bone Collector, was published in 1997 and was made into a movie in 1999, starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. Along the way, Dever wrote about Lincoln Rhyme’s archenemy, The Watchmaker. Before The Skin Collector in 2014, The Watchmaker had apparently been killed off, but Dever brought him back in this book. Rhyme was a police captain in NYC until he was in an accident which left him as a quadriplegic. Still, his remarkable skills at solving murders was so good, that he continued to work on homicide cases. I just found this book to be tedious. The basic story line is good, and Rhyme was complemented by a strong cast of characters, but I also got bogged down in the details. There were lots of betrayals and surprise liaisons, but I was more than ready for the book to end by the time I hit the 50% mark. Nearly all prolific authors like Dever write one that does not live up to the standards they have set for themselves, and this book is one of those.
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