The empty chair

THE EMPTY CHAIR Lincoln Rhyme, the renowned criminalist from The Bone Collector and The Coffin Dancer, faces his ultimate opponent: a kidnapper and murder dubbed the Insect Boy. But Rhyme in in for a surprise when he learns that catching a criminal is one thing.keeping him is another. Now Rhyme finds himself hunting a ruthless killer in the heart of a southern swampland . and going head-to-head with his protégé, Amelia Sachs, in a rivalry that tests the limits of both their expertise and their love.