The 7th, I think, in the series about Lincoln Rhyme, a quadriplegic detective who seems to be a permanent consultant for the NYPD. I have not read this series in order and it has not bothered me at all, there is some character development but it is a far second to the murder plots. Rhyme and Detective Amelia Sachs are working a possible serial killer case where the killer leaves an intricate clock next to his victims. Sachs has her own case, the suicide of an accountant that she thinks isn't a suicide. Since this is a novel, of course the two are going to intersect. Deaver always features twists and trick endings in his plots but IMO this one just got too convoluted. Maybe one less twist would have been better. Rhyme of course is very Sherlockian, and...oh wait, no spoilers. Also in this book is a new character to me, Kathryn Dance, a kinesics expert visiting from California. Just by reading body language, she's better than any lie detector. I think I would have liked the character a little better if she weren't so infallible. All in all, a good entry in this series, although to my taste it got a bit complicated by the end.
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