Book 15: The Bone Collector

The Bone Collector by, yes, Jeffery Deaver. This one was made into a movie starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. Denzel Washington played Lincoln Rhyme, a quadripalegic ex-detective who had an obsession with creating databases of various types of evidence, like soil samples from all over New York City. Angelina Jolie's character, Amelia Sachs, is a beat cop who gets unwillingly recruited to be Rhymes's eyes and legs, walking the scenes of the crimes to collect evidence and rescuing the victims of a serial killer.

This one is much more graphic, with gruesome details. It's engrossing and fun. Rhymes is a big jerk. It's impossible to imagine the characters looking as written if you've seen the movie. So you get to imagine Angelina with nervous tics and going into dangerous situations, and Denzel using adult diapers.

There IS a twist at the end, but it doesn't feel like a cheat. He has gotten a lot better over time at making his endings Plausible Surprises.