The Twelfth Card is the newest Lincoln Rhyme novel by Jeffery Deaver, following The Vanished Man. Rhyme is a paraplegic forensic investigator on a quest to discover the motives behind the stalker of Geneva Settle, a black high-school student. The tempermental Rhyme and his protégé/lover Amelia Sachs make an unsurpassable detective team.

Jeffery Deaver is a graduate of the University of Missouri and the author of twenty novels. The Twelfth Card is published by Simon & Schuster.