- African American teenage girls, Murder for hire, Quadriplegics, Police
Trying to discover why a Harlem high school student is being targeted for murder, quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and his protégée, Amelia Sachs, look for answers in the student's term paper about her civil rights activist ancestor.
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- Author
- Jeffery Deaver
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 544
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books, Ulverscroft Large Print Books, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
- Editions
- 35
- Language
- German, Italian, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780743570930
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- African American teenage girls
- Murder for hire
- Quadriplegics
- Police
- Fiction
- Fiction, thrillers, general
- Rhyme, lincoln (fictitious character), fiction
- Sachs, amelia (fictitious character), fiction
- African americans, fiction
- New york (n.y.), fiction
- People with disabilities, fiction
- Adolescentes noires américaines
“His face wet with sweat and with tears, the man runs for freedom, he runs for his life.”
Jeffery Deaver is an international number-one bestselling author. His novels have appeared on bestseller lists around the world. His books are sold in 150 countries and translated into twenty-five languages. He has served two terms as president of Mystery Writers of America, and was recently named a Grand Master of MWA, whose ranks include Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, Mary Higgins Clark and Walter Mosely. - https://www.jefferydeaver.com/about/
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