Amelia Sachs Crime Scene

Being the first to a crime scene is tough, but stopping the flow of traffic and consequently having your boss get mad is another thing. Amelia Sachs is about to be transferred out of patrol duty when she gets called down to a possible homicide scene. She discovers the Bone Collector’s first victim. A hand that has been stripped of flesh with a diamond ring on one of the fingers is sticking up out of the ground. Mildly panicked, she begins to dig up the body.

Lincoln Rhyme has been paralyzed for years now. Laying in a room alone has definitely taken a toll on his mental state. While suicide is on his mind Lincoln gets asked to consult on the latest serial case with Lon Sellito, his ex-partner. Plagued with interest, Lincoln hesitantly says that he’ll help. That’s when Amelia Sachs came into his life. Lincoln took an interest in her almost immediately and tells her that she is to be his eyes,
They know that he has a deep scar on his index finger, who he idolizes, where he lives, and more, but they just can’t seem to find the unsub himself. After another hard scene, Amelia goes home to relax and forget about the struggles of life when the unsub manages to subdue her and tries to bury her alive. The team finds her just in time, thanks to Lincoln, but the killer slips away undetected.

Little did Lincoln know that the killer was right under his nose. Peter Taylor, whose real name is Colin Stanton, has been planning this since he lost his family due to Lincoln not fully checking the crime scene. Clouded with revenge he hatches a plan to give Lincoln a reason to want to live, and kill him when he least expects it. At the climax of the story, Colin reveals to Lincoln his real identity and procedes to tell his plan of killing anyone he has ever cared about in front of him. In a moment of struggle, Lincoln takes the chance to bite down into Colin's neck until he bleeds