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  • The Midnight Lock

  • Lincoln Rhyme, Book 15
  • By: Jeffery Deaver
  • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
  • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (838 ratings)

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The Midnight Lock

By: Jeffery Deaver
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
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Publisher's summary

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 listen that takes place over just a few days’ time, features surprise after surprise and offers a fascinating look at the esoteric world of lockpicking.

©2021 Jeffery Deaver (P)2021 Penguin Audio
About the Creator- Jeffery Deaver

About the Creator

Jeffery Deaver is an international number-one bestselling author. His books are sold in 150 countries and have been translated into 25 languages. He has served two terms as president of Mystery Writers of America, and was recently named a Grand Master of MWA, whose ranks include Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, Mary Higgins Clark, and Walter Mosley.
The author of 43 novels, three collections of short stories and a nonfiction law book, and a lyricist of a country-western album, he’s received or been shortlisted for dozens of awards. His The Bodies Left Behind was named Novel of the Year by the International Thriller Writers, and his Lincoln Rhyme thriller, The Broken Window, and a stand-alone, Edge, were also nominated for that prize. The Garden of Beasts won the Steel Dagger from the Crime Writers Association in England. He’s also been nominated for eight Edgar Awards by the MWA.
Deaver has been honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention, Strand Magazine’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Raymond Chandler Lifetime Achievement Award in Italy
Deaver's most recent works are Hunting Time, a Colter Shaw novel, and The Broken Doll, a four-story collection from Amazon Original Stories. His Shaw novel, The Never Game, will be a CBS Prime-time series later this year.

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Good story with many twists

I enjoyed the many twists and the appearances of all the Rhyme crew. All of the stories wove together in a seemingly unbelievable fashion.

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Fantastic Deaver Novel

I have only read a few of his novels but need to read them all!

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GREAT

Great Great Really Great Loved It Reread again Terrific and ending got my attention

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Fast paced and good narration

Once again great narrator.

Story is entertaining with some good twists and appropriate pace.

Characaters can be somewhat one dimensional but they are still likeable.

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Always enjoy Jeffery Deaver

Great story. It was sometimes difficult to keep the characters straight though. Also the narrator has some difficulty with assigning different tones for the characters., they tend to sound the same and this also causes confusion in keeping the characters identified correctly.

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Well worth waiting for

I have listened to a few other books by Jeffrey Deaver. Still enjoy Lincoln Rhyme the most

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another great tour de force-- love this series

Love the series, and this one was uniquely complex and a nuclear complex and unexpected. Can't wait for the next One

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Midnight🕛

Truly enjoyed this story. Mr. Deaver is a master storyteller. His Lincoln Rhyme is outstanding.

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Keyed Up.

Loved the twists.
Narrator is the best. loved the whole story,
looking for the next now

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Solid experience

I love the narrator of this series and this edition doesn’t disappoint. The ending got a bit convoluted, like the author tried to cram too much into one chapter. Overall worth the credit!

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