Trying to discover why a Harlem high school student is being targeted for murder, quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and his protâegâee, Amelia Sachs, look for answers in the student's term paper about her civil rights activist ancestor.
An incident that occurred 140 years ago has deadly implications for a present-day Harlem teenager in the sixth mystery featuring quadriplegic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme. Early one Tuesday morning, high-schooler Geneva Settle studies at the Museum of African-American Culture and History, working on a term paper concerning the history of one of her ancestors, Charles Singleton, a former slave accused of burglary. When she is viciously assaulted, the NYPD initially assume that the motive was ******. But as the mystery attacker continues to threaten Geneva, Detectives Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs discover more and more connections between the current crime and Singleton's long-ago arrest.
- Genre: Mystery + Crime, Fiction + Literature Themes
- Subgenre: Suspense, Peoples + Cultures, Forensic, Detectives / Physically Challenged, Conflicts + Dualities, Action + Thrillers, Detectives / Private Eye, Society + Social Issues, Police
- Publisher: Pocket Star
- Pages: 546
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: April 18, 2006
- Date Published: April 18, 2006
- Author: Jeffery Deaver