--- product_id: 25268905 title: "The Skin Collector (A Lincoln Rhyme Novel, 12) Mass Market Paperback – November 24, 2015" brand: "jeffery deaver" price: "9221CFA" currency: XOF in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.sn/products/25268905-the-skin-collector-a-lincoln-rhyme-novel-12-mass-market store_origin: SN region: Senegal --- # The Skin Collector (A Lincoln Rhyme Novel, 12) Mass Market Paperback – November 24, 2015 **Brand:** jeffery deaver **Price:** 9221CFA **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Skin Collector (A Lincoln Rhyme Novel, 12) Mass Market Paperback – November 24, 2015 by jeffery deaver - **How much does it cost?** 9221CFA with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sn](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/25268905-the-skin-collector-a-lincoln-rhyme-novel-12-mass-market) ## Best For - jeffery deaver enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted jeffery deaver brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![The Skin Collector (A Lincoln Rhyme Novel, 12) Mass Market Paperback – November 24, 2015 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51OfifmqVJL.jpg) ![The Skin Collector (A Lincoln Rhyme Novel, 12) Mass Market Paperback – November 24, 2015 - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41zUDlIzA5L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐ DISAPPOINTING POLITCALLY MOTIVATED PSEUDO THRILLER IN OPINION OF DEDICATED DEAVER FAN *by P***1 on Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2020* My Review Two Stars**Last year I began the challenge of reading all of Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme books in the order of their publication. It's difficult to grasp that the fictional character of the quadriplegic forensic genius was first featured in 1997's New York Times Bestseller THE BONE COLLECTOR. I was pleased with my progress in 2019, having read the eighth installment in the series (THE BROKEN WINDOW) by the end of the year.This year I read THE BURNING WIRE [2010] in February and re-read THE KILL ROOM [2013] during the summer. THE SKIN COLLECTOR is the 11th installment and the last Lincoln Rhyme Book I’ll be reading this year. Deaver is among my favorite authors and that has been true for decades. I might add that this year I have also read both novels featuring his recently launched Colter Shaw series, not to mention two standalone novels from earlier in his career [MISTRESS OF JUSTICE and THE BLUE NOWHERE].I apologize for the lengthy prelude to this review of THE SKIN COLLECTOR published in 2014. That said, I felt like that it was necessary because perhaps inexplicably I found myself disinterested in the forensic investigation with Rhyme, Sachs and team at the beginning of this novel. I plodded along, and did find the research on toxins frankly fascinating, and the arcane background history of tattoos equally intriguing. The gist of the story line at least initially was the team’s usual “mad dash” for an unsub (in this instance a serial murderer using a tattoo gun and exotic poisons derived from plant sources to kill his victims). He was dubbed The Underground Man because he attacked his prey beneath the streets and in the tunnels running like veins and arteries beneath New York City.I would imagine that nearly every reader who peruses book reviews, perhaps Customer Reviews in particular, has encountered avid fans asserting that this novel or that novel was not written by the person designated as the author. The notion of “Ghost Writers” aside, THE SKIN COLLECTOR just didn’t “feel” like the typical “Lincoln Rhyme Book” penned by Deaver. In particular, the narrative didn’t conjure the persona of Lincoln Rhyme for me, and the usual interplay I had come to enjoy between Rhyme and Sachs was all but absent. Rhyme seemed to present in the narrative as imperious, narcissistic, cold, rash, impatient….and was the “eff word” and “g—damn” used not infrequently in the prior Rhyme books? If so, I didn’t notice it until now. The camaraderie among the team seemed almost tenuous as well, and I couldn’t believe that Lon Sellito really suffered such a horrific fate. I naturally thought it was one of the author’s clever red herrings. The very fact that a main character would really be figuratively “struck by lightning” is not at all typical of a Rhyme book. In fact, it is completely uncharacteristic. It is part of what I love so much about the books. That is that the main characters (including Rhyme and Sachs) are put in simply horrible predicaments that seem impossible to escape or avoid, but of course the reader knows that the heroes will escape harm. Not so much this time around with the indefatigable Lon Sellito, and the team as a whole doesn’t seem all that torn up about it, which presents as still another anomaly.Nevertheless, it was a relief that by the 50% mark my level of interest had increased and continuing to read the novel was less of a chore. However, my initial relief proved to be rather short-lived. It wasn’t long before the hunt for a particularly nasty serial killer was history, and Deaver’s signature plot twists and turns were on full manic display. The speed with which the reason for a goal-oriented organized murderer to pretend to be a psychopathic sadistic predator went through so many transformations that it was dizzying. Jeez! It went from bombing International Fiber Optic Networks to rupturing the city’s water lines to creating a flood of biblical proportions to a terrorist’s mass poisoning of New York City’s population with the deadliest toxin on earth.The above is another major reason I disliked the book. If you read Deaver, you know that nothing is as it seems. That is part of the fun. However, there is a point of diminishing returns when we are discussing preposterously wild plot twists. The reader doesn’t have time to do much more than think “Hey, this is now a completely different plot!”, take a breath and read a couple more paragraphs before it becomes déjà vu. Again and again.I know some readers may have been annoyed because of the book starting out with the infamous WATCHMAKER’s death, the whole narrative that was devoted to investigating the incident before the plot thread was unceremoniously dropped. Then there was the emphasis on the BONE COLLECTOR by virtue of a forensic piece of evidence connected to the UNDERGROUND MAN. The associations with the BONE COLLECTOR case did not end there of course. Those readers who follow the series know that Pam was rescued by Rhyme and Sachs from a right-wing extremist terrorist group in that novel. In THE SKIN COLLECTOR we have still another subplot simmering about Pam’s plans to drop out of college and take off to Europe with the new love of her life Seth. As a reader, my initial thought was that the book had so much going on in it that it was already a circus, and that family squabbles were just plain superfluous interference in the flow of the narrative. But then I thought, oops! Nothing is as it seems. I then realized that shocking reveals were in store that would indeed surprise many readers (except die-hard Deaver fans). I’ll go on record as agreeing with the readers who were perturbed by Deaver’s “call outs” to other master criminals in the series, that is other books he had written. The author’s compulsion to tie up the loose ends to what I thought of as his “bonus plot twists and turns” were pretty implausible and frankly, I knowingly and willingly suspend disbelief a lot with this book series.My biggest surprise, and my Lord, there were too many to count, was that at the very end of the novel, Rhyme is preoccupied with some forensic evidence that is tied to still another exploit, which is nothing but a cliffhanger ending. And another component of this book that fell under the “disliked” category.I’ve tried to enumerate the aspects of this novel that disappointed me as a reader, and went even further to explain the author’s shenanigans that I flat disliked. I do not want to leave out the single reason that made me decimate the rating as brutally as I ultimately did. That was Deaver’s illuminations to the reader about (his) presented as fact-based information reality of terrorism, foreign and domestic. He proclaimed that card-carrying Christian citizens of the United States were responsible for most of the terrorist horrors that have befallen our country and that Right Wing Militia Groups pose more of a threat than Radical Islamic Terrorists, the Jihad, Taliban, and Al-Qaeda, etc. all combined. Deaver wrote (as an assertion of fact) that there were [in 2014 @ the time of the book’s publication] Right-Wing Extremist Paramilitary Groups NUMBERING 50,000 MEMBERS IN EVERY STATE OF THE UNION. Somewhat conveniently BLM and ATIFA were left out of the conversation entirely. I was not really loving Karin Slaughter even now after reading her “hit piece” THE LAST WIDOW. However, after this slap in the face by Deaver, I am almost ready to pick up Cop Town.Finally, there were a few things I liked about this book, but there were many more aspects that disinterested me, disappointed me, that I disliked, and ultimately the plot that the author ended up with simply infuriated me. I made an effort to avoid spoilers and I hope I succeeded for the most part, albeit most readers who follow Deaver will already have read this installment of the Rhyme Books published six years ago. This was the fifth book of Deaver’s I read in 2020, and it has made me want to reflect on my fan loyalty since the late‘90s. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ With A Bit of "The Bone Collector" Included *by K***T on Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2017* There are possibly 3 stories in this novel. The reader has the present novel, plenty of the original “Bone Collector”, and as a typical Rhyme novel much of the storyline is a police procedural, as well as a thriller. One suggestion: if you have not read “Bone Collector”, read it first before this one. You’ll have a much better understanding toward the end.This is quite far into the Rhyme series as to have the usual cast of characters very developed. The reader can visualize each clearly. Jeffrey Deaver’s writing is very good, adding to this series.On a personal note, I would have preferred the “serial killer” genre continue as is. A good 75% into the book there is a very large plot twist I didn’t care for. The “serial killer” genre could have easily tied in with the Watchmaker without the near do well aunt, uncle, cousin, etc. and their agenda.I’ve read all the Lincoln Rhyme novels and haven’t been disappointed in any of them. ### ⭐⭐ Disappointing and improbable (contains spoilers) *by T***N on Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2014* I thought the Bone Collector was above average, but this one disappointed. The writing is uninspired and both the plot and many of the characters are improbable. There is also a huge element of predictability here. As soon as the person who later turned out to be the killer was introduced, I figured it had to be him. Furthermore, the killer's actions are not consistent with what we later learn about him. He has two tats on him that someone with whom he has had sex for a year somehow has never noticed. He has a job that doesn't at all fit with his supposed religion and ideology. Supposedly, he is a hard core white supremacist, yet he only kills random white people. He beats his GF for using an obscene word, although the spiritual leader of his group very casually uses this same word. And instead of reading Rhyme's own book about CSI, he reads another and much less detailed book written by someone else, to learn about Rhyme's methods. Most weird of all, perhaps, is that he actually HAS the girl of his dreams as his GF, yet chooses to mess up all of that with some crazy terrorist plan.There are also inconsistencies with regard to Rhyme and his female sidekick. An example: The former sends out a press release and image of a known killer (not the Skin Collector), but fails to alert the public to the fact that the Skin Collector has a very odd and large tat on his arm.Then there is the lame, politically correct idea of the killer being part of a white supremacist militia. And of course "the Skin Collector" doesn't actually collect any skin at all.I certainly won't read any more books by these mediocre writer. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.sn/products/25268905-the-skin-collector-a-lincoln-rhyme-novel-12-mass-market](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/25268905-the-skin-collector-a-lincoln-rhyme-novel-12-mass-market) --- *Product available on Desertcart Senegal* *Store origin: SN* *Last updated: 2026-09-15*