My mom had said this was going to be a movie and the movie paperback edition had just come out. I read Mission: Impossible, Batman and Robin, and The Saint. The only books I would read were the cheesy movie knock off books. When I was in high school I hated to read. I won a copy of this book in a Goodreads giveaway! Trigger Warnings: Almost everything imaginable! I read some sick and twisted books, but this book takes things to another level. However, by the time I got to the most brutal of passages, I was hooked which compelled me to pick this book up again but had I not been, I don’t know if I could have done it.

And the final scene with the killer being taken down was absolutely disgusting! There is one scene involving rats feasting on a victim that caused me to put this book down for several days.

This sick individual cut people down to the bone, essentially skinning them alive. I did not enjoy the level of detail included in the killer’s scenes. I enjoyed seeing all of the threads come together. Like some of the later books, the plot is complicated and has many threads. I was able to gain some insight into how this series and relationships developed, especially the relationship between Sachs and Rhyme. I have read some later books in the series, so it was interesting to read the first book. This is a complex, intricately plotted sick and twisted tale with intelligent MC’s and a sick and twisted killer. There are over 2,500 reviews and over 150,000 ratings of this book on Goodreads, so mine doesn’t really matter at this point, but I will post one anyway!

The Bone Collector is a police procedural/thriller about a sick and twisted serial killer and the criminologist who brings him down. 'This is a novel that will chill your blood on the warmest day of any summer holiday. But as he edges closer to the truth, the Bone Collector is closing in on Lincoln Rhyme himself. With the help of a young police officer, Amelia Sachs, he starts to close in on the killer. Left paralysed by a debilitating accident, ex NYPD cop Rhyme has to dig deep into the only world he has left - his astonishing mind - to have any hope of solving the case. Baffled, the cops turn to the one man with a chance of solving them - Lincoln Rhyme. New York City has been thrown into chaos by the assaults of the Bone Collector, a serial kidnapper and killer who gives the police a chance to save his victims from death by leaving obscure clues. From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Goodbye Man, discover Jeffery Deaver's chilling thriller that inspired the film starring Angelina Jolie and Denzel Washington and is now a major NBC TV series.

The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver