'Another genuinely compulsive chiller from the best psychological thriller writer around.'  The Times

Lincoln Rhyme is strapped to his bed and actually planning his suicide when he gets a call he can't ignore from his old partner in the force.

A single human hand has been found, buried on a deserted railway track on New York's West Side - the hand belonged to a man who got in a cab at the airport and never got out.  Ane the driver of the Bone Collector.

The Bone Collected, a killer and kidnapper obsessed with old New York, leaves clues that only Lincoln Rhyme can decipher.  As the minutes count down towards each successive death of an innocent, Rhyme and the female police officer acting as his arms and legs race to locate the victims by unravelling the Bond Collector's clues.

Slowly the criminalist begins to narrow the noose around the kidnapper.  But it appears the Bone Collector has his own plans, and is narrowing his own noose - around Lincoln Rhymes.

Kerry Shales' stage credits include His Girl Friday (National Theatre).  TV and film includes Cracker, Sharpe's Rifles and Code 46.  He has won three Sony Awards for radio acting and writing.