Jeffery Deaver: The Midnight Lock

Jeffery Deaver: The Midnight Lock (UK 2022)

From the Publisher:
The "master of ticking-bomb suspense" Jeffery Deaver brings us the latest thriller featuring his most beloved protagonists. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are back - on the hunt for a criminal terrorising New York City

A killer without limits
He comes into your home at night. He watches you as you sleep. He waits.

A city in turmoil
He calls himself 'The Locksmith'. No door can keep him out. No security system can catch him. And now he's about to kill.

A race against time to stop him
Nobody in New York is safe. Now it's up to Lincoln Rhyme to untangle the web of evidence and catch him.

But with Lincoln under investigation himself, and tension in the city at boiling point, time is running out...

Jeffery Deaver: The Midnight Lock. You shut your door. You turn the key. But nothing will keep him out... The New Lincoln Rhyme Thriller. HarperCollins, ISBN: 9780008303884 (March, 2022), 448 p., £8.99.

Jeffery Deaver: The Midnight Lock (UK 2021)

A woman living alone in Manhattan wakes up to find that items in her apartment have moved during the night. Someone has broken into her flat and, worse than that, there are signs they have stayed to watch her sleep...

Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are asked by City Hall to lead the investigation into this new and dangerous criminal: He calls himself the 'Locksmith', and can break through any lock or security system ever devised.

But their hunt is interrupted when a police investigation uncovers a crucial mistake in one of Rhyme's old cases. Fired as a consultant for the NYPD, he risks jail if the police discover he's still investigating the Locksmith.

Rhyme and his team must work in secret to untangle the web of forensic evidence that stands between the criminal and justice.

Jeffery Deaver: The Midnight Lock. You shut your door. You turn the key. But nothing will keep him out... The New Lincoln Rhyme Thriller. HarperCollins, ISBN: 9780008303846 (November, 2021), 512 p., £14.99., eBook £11.99.

Jeffery Deaver: The Midnight Lock (USA 2021)

From the Publisher:
The "master of ticking-bomb suspense" (People) Jeffery Deaver delivers the latest thriller featuring his beloved protagonists Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs as they search for a criminal whose fascination with breaking locks terrorizes New York City.

A woman awakes in the morning to find that someone has picked her apartment's supposedly impregnable door lock and rearranged personal items, even sitting beside her while she slept. The intrusion, the police learn, is a message to the entire city of carnage to come. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to investigate and soon learn that the sociopathic intruder, who calls himself "the Locksmith," can break through any lock or security system ever devised. With more victims on the horizon, Rhyme, Sachs and their stable of associates must follow the evidence to the man's lair... and discover his true mission.

Their hunt is interrupted when an internal investigation in the police force uncovers what seems to be a crucial mistake in one of Rhyme's previous cases. He's fired as a consultant for the NYPD and must risk jail if he investigates the Locksmith case in secret.

The Midnight Lock is a roller-coaster read that takes place over just a few days' time, features surprise after surprise and offers a fascinating look at the esoteric world of lockpicking.

Jeffery Deaver: The Midnight Lock. A Lincoln Rhyme Novel. Putnam's, ISBN: 9780525536000 (November, 2021), 448 p., $28.00, eBook $14.99.