TV news: watch Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt For The Bone Collector on NBC and Hulu. Lincoln Rhyme was once a brilliant criminologist, a genius in the field of forensicsuntil an accident left him physically and emotionally shattered. The movie adaptation of The Bone Collector, starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie, was made by Universal Pictures in 1999. The first novel in the New York Times bestselling series featuring forensic detective Lincoln Rhymefrom the author of The Never Game. But she’s never worked a crime scene in her life - and he can only whisper in her ear as she does the exacting work he loved more than anything else. The search leads him to the Bone Collector, whose obsession with old New York colors every scrap of evidence he leaves for Rhyme and his new partner, Amelia Sachs, whom he drafts as his arms and legs.

Reluctantly, Lincoln Rhyme abandons retirement to track down a killer whose ingenious clues hold the secret to saving his victims - if Rhyme can decipher them in time. It belonged to a man who got into a cab at the airport and never got out. Until he sees the crime-scene report about a corpse found buried on a deserted West Side railroad track, its bloody hand rising from the dirt. An accident on the job left him a quadriplegic who can move just one finger, a great mind strapped to his bed, mulish and sarcastic, hiding from a life he no longer wants to live. Now, Lincoln is frozen in place - permanently. Lincoln Rhyme, ex-head of NYPD forensics, was the nation’s foremost criminalist, the man who could work a crime scene and come away with a perfect profile of the killer, frozen in time.

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