The Midnight Lock, Jeffery Deaver
The Midnight Lock, Jeffery Deaver
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The Midnight Lock

Author: Jeffery Deaver

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Unabridged: 10 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 11/30/2021


Synopsis

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.

About Jeffery Deaver

Chicago born author, Jeffery Deaver, has been richly rewarded for his successful career as a an American mystery/crime writer, including being a three-time Ellery Queen Reader's Award winner, and several different newspaper best of lists around the world.

Lincoln Rhyme, a quadriplegic detective is the main character in his most popular series of novels, such as The Broken Window. His time spent practicing law before he embarked on his writing career definitely gave him greater insight into the cases about which he writes.

He was writing about criminal hackers in his 2001 book, The Blue Nowhere. He also established a computer crime unit within the pages of the book. Several of his novels have been adapted for tv and movies. The most popular among them would be The Bone Collector, starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie.

Deaver was chosen to write an official James Bond novel, Carter Blanche, published on May 25, 2011, making him the second American author to participate in the series.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ceecee on September 23, 2021

Lincoln Rhymes #15 Annabelle Talese, a fashion influencer is hung over but hyper aware that a number of things in her apartment are off kilter, especially when she finds a note in her underwear drawer which reads ‘Reckoning - The Locksmith’. Meanwhile, Lincoln is being interrogated in court at the tr......more

Goodreads review by Alan on November 24, 2021

I would like to thank Net Galley and Harper Collins for supplying an ARC of this novel in exchange for an honest review. Now I was really looking forward to reading this as I have loved this series, having read 12 of the previous 14 books. The other 2 books are waiting to be read. But sadly, this one......more

Goodreads review by Carol on October 01, 2022

Jeffery Deaver has outdone himself with this one. His character "The Locksmith" breaks into the apartments of women in New York, simply by just easily picking their locks. Once he is in, he moves their belongings around and sits and watches them sleep. Then he takes a single knife from each of the a......more

Goodreads review by Bill on December 11, 2021

The Locksmith is one of Jeffery Deaver's most intriguing creations. The Locksmith can defeat any lock & security system to gain access to a home, but when he gets in he just moves items around & eats or drinks. He then goes, leaving the victim with the knowledge that someone has entered their home &......more


Quotes

“The wait has been worth it. This is prime Rhyme: a fiendishly smart villain, bewildering crimes, plenty of plot twists, and Lincoln, the quadriplegic criminalist, is at his cranky, belligerent, brilliantly clever best.”
Booklist

“The dialogue and plotting are as sharp as ever in The Midnight Lock …If the burglar’s break-in feats often resemble magic, so do some of Deaver’s tricks.”
—The Sunday Times of London

“Some readers will be aghast in admiration at the nonstop revelations, others impatient for every last T to be crossed so that they can turn the last page and get to sleep before dawn. In the end, everyone will agree that there’s no other detective under the midnight moon like Lincoln Rhyme.”
Kirkus Reviews