Lincoln Rhyme Books in Order

A saboteur begins toppling construction cranes around New York City, threatening mass casualties and sending cryptic messages that hint at Lincoln Rhyme’s old nemesis, the Watchmaker. As buildings and alliances sway, Rhyme and Sachs must determine whether the mastermind has truly returned—or if someone is exploiting that fear for their own ends.

In this Lincoln Rhyme short story, an unnervingly patient predator uses charm and technology to worm his way into victims’ lives and destroy them emotionally, all while staying just this side of the law. Rhyme and Amelia Sachs must find a way to stop him before psychological torment turns into murder.

A criminal dubbed the Locksmith slips into women’s apartments at night, rearranging their belongings and leaving taunting messages without ever setting off an alarm. As public fear grows and Lincoln Rhyme battles political pressure on his own career, he and Amelia Sachs must stop a predator who seems able to open any door.

In this short Lincoln Rhyme case, an apparently airtight murder scheme looks ready to fool everyone—until a few overlooked traces land on Rhyme’s evidence table. Piecing together hair‑thin clues, he shows how even the most careful killer can never plan for everything.

Someone is murdering engaged couples in New York’s diamond district, leaving shattered gems and grotesque crime scenes behind. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs race to stop the so‑called Promiser before he strikes again, uncovering jealousies, insurance angles and a reality‑show culture built on the promise of perfect love.

A kidnapper nicknamed the Composer films his victims slowly strangling in nooses while eerie music plays, then posts the footage online. When a new abduction pulls Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs from New York to Italy, they must navigate unfamiliar ground, diplomatic pressure and a case that may hide a larger terror plot.

After a man dies in a freak escalator accident, Amelia Sachs suspects sabotage and is soon chasing a killer who turns everyday devices into death traps. While Sachs works the scenes, Lincoln Rhyme investigates from afar, uncovering a web of product‑liability suits, online revenge and a vigilante with a chilling sense of justice.

A deliveryman is shot in a New York alley while his young son looks on, and Lincoln Rhyme inherits a mountain of trash‑filled evidence from the scene. As he and Amelia Sachs reconstruct the victim’s last route, they discover a hidden cargo that others are desperate—and willing to kill—to recover.

A terrifying copycat of the Bone Collector kidnaps victims and tattoos cryptic messages into their skin using poison instead of ink. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs must decode the macabre designs and their connection to an old enemy before more bodies are claimed underground.

In this crossover novella from the anthology *FaceOff*, Lincoln Rhyme and Minnesota detective Lucas Davenport team up when a case spans New York and the Midwest. Combining Rhyme’s forensic brilliance with Davenport’s on‑the‑ground instincts, they hunt a predator neither man could easily stop alone.

A U.S. citizen is assassinated in the Bahamas by a sniper acting on a secret government order, and Lincoln Rhyme is asked to investigate whether the shooting was justified. Digging into classified files and political maneuvering, Rhyme and Sachs find themselves chasing both the triggerman and the people trying to bury the truth.

Asked to analyze a small packet of evidence for training purposes, Lincoln Rhyme realizes the items point to a real and unsolved murder. Treating the exercise like a live case, he walks readers through a step‑by‑step forensic lesson that ends with a very real suspect.

A saboteur turns New York City’s electrical grid into a weapon, killing victims through seemingly random power surges and outages. As panic spreads and a controversial energy company scrambles to contain the damage, Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs hunt a terrorist who can strike anywhere a wire runs.

When a man is framed for a gruesome murder using impossibly exact personal data, Lincoln Rhyme traces the evidence back to a shadowy data‑mining company. To unmask a killer who can manipulate credit records, surveillance, and every digital footprint, Rhyme must confront both cutting‑edge technology and a trauma from his own past.

A meticulous murderer calling himself the Watchmaker stages killings around New York with chilling precision, leaving antique clocks as signatures. As Lincoln Rhyme tracks the time‑obsessed killer, he crosses paths with kinesics expert Kathryn Dance, and the investigation exposes how tightly a patient predator can wind his victims’ lives.

Harlem honor student Geneva Settle barely survives an attack in a museum while researching an ancestor. Lincoln Rhyme suspects a hired killer is trying to erase her because of a 140‑year‑old secret tied to stolen land and buried history, and he has only days to uncover the truth before the assassin strikes again.

After a killer vanishes from a locked room at a New York music school, Lincoln Rhyme is drawn into a series of murders modeled on classic illusionist tricks. Facing an adversary who thinks like a magician, Rhyme and Amelia Sachs must see past smoke and mirrors to stop the next performance.

Rhyme and Sachs help federal agents intercept a ship smuggling Chinese immigrants and a notorious human trafficker called Ghost. When the operation goes wrong and the ship sinks, Ghost escapes into New York’s Chinatown, and the race is on to find two surviving families before he silences them forever.

In North Carolina for experimental surgery, Lincoln Rhyme is asked to consult on a local manhunt for a teenage outcast accused of kidnapping. As he and Amelia Sachs dig into the case, they uncover tangled motives in a small town where everyone seems to be hiding something—including the supposed suspect.

A professional hit man known as the Coffin Dancer is hired to eliminate three key witnesses just days before a grand jury hearing. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs must protect the survivors while hunting a killer who has already outsmarted them once and revels in turning every move into a deadly game.

Quadriplegic forensic criminalist Lincoln Rhyme is pulled out of retirement when a sadistic killer starts staging murders around New York and leaving cryptic clues behind. With patrol officer Amelia Sachs as his eyes and ears, Rhyme races to decode the trail before the next victim is claimed.