A new type of serial killer is stalking the streets of New York - one more devious and disturbing than ever before. They call this butcher The Skin Collector: a tattooist with a chamber of torture hidden deep underground. But instead of using ink to create each masterpiece, the artist uses a lethal poison which will render targets dead before they can even entertain the prospect of escape. Drafted in to investigate, NYPD detective Lincoln Rhyme and...

The tenth novel in the critically acclaimed series. Robert Moreno, an American citizen living in South America, is shot in the Bahamas by a sniper. The killing was commissioned by the U.S. government, who received a tip-off that Moreno was planning a terrorist attack on a U.S. oil company headquarters. But this intelligence was fatally incorrect: anti-American Moreno ordered a protest at the oil company, not an attack. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs...

Geneva Settle is a bright young high school student from Harlem writing a paper about one of her ancestors, a former slave called Charles Singleton. Geneva is also the target of a ruthless professional killer.

Rhyme's cousin has been arrested for murder. It turns out that his cousin, along with others, has been wrongly convicted because the killer knows every detail about the lives of his victims & the men he sets up. This allows him to get close to the victims, murder or rape, then set up others to fall for his crimes by planting evidence.

A killer flees the scene of a homicide at a Manhattan music school and locks himself in a classroom surrounded by police. A scream rings out, then a gunshot. The police break in. The room is empty. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are pitted against a killer with one final, horrific trick to play.

In the month of December a young man is found dead in lower Manhattan, the first in a series of victims of a man calling himself the Watchmaker. This killer's obsession with time drives him to plan his murders with the precision of fine timepieces, and the victims die prolonged deaths.

A woman awakes in the morning to find that someone has picked her apartment's apparently impregnable door lock - and, terrifyingly, rearranged her personal items, even sitting beside her as she slept. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to investigate and soon learn that this brilliant, sociopathic intruder, styling themself as 'the Locksmith', can break through any lock or security system ever devised. With more victims on the horizon,...

There's no pain, no theatrical agony. No screaming, no shouting. The kill shot is catastrophic, yet surgically precise. I slumped silently on to my knees and toppled forward, head first, into the dirt. The lads had seen enough death to assume mine was instantaneous. The lights were out. That's him gone. Toby Gutteridge was only 24 when he was shot through the neck while operating behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. He survived despite not breathing...