Lincoln Rhyme

Lincoln Rhyme is the protagonist of the Jeffery Deaver Lincoln Rhyme crime series, which has spanned ten books. He is a quadriplegic forensic criminalist who along with Amelia Sachs solve homicidal crimes. In the 1999 movie The Bone Collector (based on the first book by the same name) he was played by Denzel Washington.

Biography
Lincoln was involved in an accident when investigating a crime scene, which left him paralyzed neck down and has to rely on equipment and care to keep him going. He became suicidal and plotted to take his own life. He is visited by homicidal detectives Lon Sellitto and Jerry Banks who want his help on a homicidal case in which two people where kidnapped, but one still alive but missing. Lincoln, despite appearing disinterested begins to be drawn in when looking through the case files. During the book he works with Amelia Sachs who had come across one of the crime scenes and acted upon it.

At the climax of the book Lincoln's doctor Peter Taylor is revealed to being the killer. Peter had lost his family and blamed Lincoln for not preventing it, and plotted to kill Lincoln on their first meeting. However seeing Lincoln was suicidal and wanted to die, Taylor wanted to give Lincoln a reason to live and thus began the serial killings, with the inspiration of a 19th Century serial killer named James Schneider, AKA The Bone Collector. Taylor revealed he planned to kill Lincoln's friends in front of him, but Lincoln managed to grab onto Taylor's neck with his teeth, tearing at his artery and killing him.

In the following books, Lincoln begins a relationship with Amelia.

List of Appearances

 * Books


 * The Bone Collector (1997)
 * The Coffin Dancer (1998)
 * The Empty Chair (2000)
 * The Stone Monkey (2002)
 * The Vanished Man (2003)
 * The Twelfth Card (2005)
 * The Cold Moon (2006)
 * The Broken Window (2008)
 * The Burning Wire (2010)
 * The Kill Room (2013)
 * Film


 * The Bone Collector (1999)