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* HeroesWantRedHeads: Lincoln eventually ends up with Amelia, and in ''The Broken Window'' recounts with some embarrassment that his first love was also a redhead. Amelia seems more amused than anything.
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** TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight: He turned out to be pretty spot on about pretty much everything. Including there being an RFID in the book he thought had "cursed" him.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Robert Jorgensen]] in ''The Broken Window'' [[spoiler:manages to save Sachs' life by tailing her and eventually tracking down "God". Sadly he gets shot in the process.]]
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* ProperlyParanoid: Roert Jorgensen, a poor doctor whose life has been hell after 'God' decided to steal everything from him.
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* ProperlyParanoid: Roert Robert Jorgensen, a poor doctor whose life has been hell after 'God' decided to steal everything from him.
** TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight: He turned out to be pretty spot on about pretty much everything. Including there being an RFID in the book he thought had "cursed" him.
** TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight: He turned out to be pretty spot on about pretty much everything. Including there being an RFID in the book he thought had "cursed" him.
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* StillbornFranchise: The [[TheBoneCollector film version]] of the first book.
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* StillbornFranchise: The [[TheBoneCollector [[Film/TheBoneCollector film version]] of the first book.
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''This page is about the Lincoln Rhyme series of novels. For the film based on the first book, check TheBoneCollector''
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Film/TheBoneCollector''
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* FunWithAcronyms: Roland Bell is fond of them.
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*LocardsTheory: Brought up a lot, and sometimes quoted.
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** [[spoiler: In ''The Stone Monkey'', whenever Amelia is with John Sung, who's actually Kwan Ang the Ghost.]]
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* FatBastard: The 'Watchmaker''s partner.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: In ''The Stone Monkey'', the old Chang Jiechi decides to meet the Ghost while pretending to sell his family, in order to murder him in lieu of his son Sam.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Malerick the 'Conjurer', who's eventually tricked and captured thanks to Kara, who's a skilled magician like him.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Malerick the 'Conjurer', who's eventually tricked and captured thanks to Kara, who's a skilled magician like him.]]
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* NoNameGiven: The Coffin Dancer. [[spoiler: Joe D'Onofrio is a fake identity.]]
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* ProfessionalKiller: The Coffin Dancer, [[spoiler: both Stephen Kall and "Jodie"]] and the killer in ''The Twelfth Card''. [[spoiler: The 'Watchmaker' is one, posing as a psycho.]]
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* LifeOrLimbDecision: A variation -- Rhyme tells Donaghy to cut a body's hand off rather than risk damaging the handcuffs which he wants to examine.
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* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Justified and deconstructed - Donaghy is a patrol cop with no forensics training beyond reading Rhyme's textbook on the subject, and she's only involved in the investigation at his insistence (he feels she has good instincts) and against her and her SO's objections. When Rhyme pushes her over the limit by ordering her to [[spoiler:dissect a body,]] she storms off the scene.
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* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Justified and deconstructed - Donaghy Amelia Sachs is a patrol cop with no forensics training beyond reading Rhyme's textbook on the subject, and she's only involved in the investigation at his insistence (he feels she has good instincts) and against her and her SO's objections. When Rhyme pushes her over the limit by ordering her to [[spoiler:dissect a body,]] she storms off the scene.
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** [[spoiler: In the climax of ''The Twelfth Card'', Amelia beat down the killer (who has a gun) with a stone.]]
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* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: The Coffin Dancer, after getting shot by Sachs and having his right eye destroyed, still tries to murder his target, slowly crawling towards her, holding a sharp stone in his hands.]]
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* CoolCar: Sachs' 1969 Camaro. [[spoiler: Ends up getting completely destroyed in ''The Broken Window'' when 'God' has it repo'd and sent to a junkyard for it to be trash compacted.]]
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* CoolCar: Sachs' 1969 Camaro. [[spoiler: Ends up getting completely destroyed in ''The Broken Window'' when 'God' has it repo'd and sent to a junkyard for it to be trash compacted. Gets replaced by a Ford Torino Cobra.]]
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** Then proceeds to [[spoiler: Up the ante and do that to the whole investigating team, faking drug test results for some, having the wives of others flagged as illegal immigrants, cutting the power to their apartments and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking repo their cars]].
* WhoWatchesTheWatchmen: 'God' has access and can control all the data. ]]
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* CoolCar: Sachs' 1969 Camaro. [[spoiler: Ends up getting completely destroyed in ''The Broken Window'' when 'God' has it repo'd and sent to a junkyard for it to be trash compacted.]]
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* ForTheLulz: 'God' in ''The Broken Window'', specially when it comes to the poor doctor. He destroyed his life, his marriage, his medical practice, just for shits and giggles.
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* ForTheLulz: ForTheEvulz: 'God' in ''The Broken Window'', specially when it comes to the poor doctor. He destroyed his life, his marriage, his medical practice, just for shits and giggles.
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* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: Dellray is always described as wearing the worst possible outfits out there, including green plaid suits and bright neon orange shirts.
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* StraightGay: Thom.
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* HeroWorship: Pulaski towards Sachs, Sellito and Rhyme. [[spoiler:'God' towards Andrew Sterling, the CEO of SSD, whom he considers 'God' instead]].
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* HeroWorship: HeroWorshipper: Pulaski towards Sachs, Sellito and Rhyme. [[spoiler:'God' towards Andrew Sterling, the CEO of SSD, whom he considers 'God' instead]].
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* HeroWorship: Pulaski towards Sachs, Sellito and Rhyme. [[spoiler:'God' towards Andrew Sterling, the CEO of SSD, whom he considers 'God' instead]].
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* RockBeatsLaser: [[spoiler: How 'God' would get the information from the SSD datapens. More specifically, SSD had a system that would wipe all electronics, be it a pen drive or a cell phone, so 'God' would just write everything down on a legal pad instead]].
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* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler:''The Conjurer'']].[[spoiler:'The Conjurer' in ''The Vanished Man'']].
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** [[spoiler: In the ''Broken Window'', 'God' is the security guard]].
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* OnlyOneName: Thom. [[spoiler: We find out 8 books in that his last name is 'Reston']]
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** [[spoiler: To a lesser degree, the person who was behind the bombing at the end of ''The Bone Collector'']]
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* RedShirt: The poor cyclist cop in ''The Vanished Man''.
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* SuperOCD: The 'Watchmaker'.
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** [[spoiler: And again in ''The Vanished Man'', where 'The Conjurer' sneaks into Lincoln Rhyme's apartment and almost kills him in a fire]].
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** [[spoiler: And again in ''The Vanished Man'', where 'The Conjurer' sneaks into Lincoln Rhyme's apartment and almost kills him in a fire]].fire, or at least was highly convincing in that that was the plan]].
