The Midnight Lock by Jeffery Deaver
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