BOOK CLUB
November 20, 2025
6:00 PM - Point Street Tavern
A quadriplegic since a beam crushed his spinal cord years ago, Lincoln Rhyme is desperate to improve his condition and goes to the University of North Carolina Medical Center for high-risk experimental surgery. But he and Sachs have hardly settled in when the local authorities come calling. In a twenty-four-hour period, the sleepy Southern outpost of Tanner’s Corner has seen a local teen murdered and two young women abducted. And Rhyme and Sachs are the best chance to find the girls alive.
The prime suspect is a peculiar teenage truant known as the Insect Boy, so nicknamed for his disturbing obsession with bugs. Rhyme’s unsurpassed analytical skills and stellar forensic experience, combined with Sachs’s exceptional detective legwork, soon snare the perp. But even Rhyme can’t anticipate that Sachs will disagree with his crime analysis and that her vehemence will put her in the swampland, harboring the very suspect who Rhyme considers a ruthless killer. So ensues Rhyme’s greatest challenge—facing the criminalist whom he has taught everything he knows in a battle of wits, forensics, and intuition.
With the intricate forensic detail, breathtaking speed, and masterful plot twists that are signature Deaver, The Empty Chair is page-turning suspense of the highest order.
November 20, 2025
6:00 PM - Point Street Tavern
A quadriplegic since a beam crushed his spinal cord years ago, Lincoln Rhyme is desperate to improve his condition and goes to the University of North Carolina Medical Center for high-risk experimental surgery. But he and Sachs have hardly settled in when the local authorities come calling. In a twenty-four-hour period, the sleepy Southern outpost of Tanner’s Corner has seen a local teen murdered and two young women abducted. And Rhyme and Sachs are the best chance to find the girls alive.
The prime suspect is a peculiar teenage truant known as the Insect Boy, so nicknamed for his disturbing obsession with bugs. Rhyme’s unsurpassed analytical skills and stellar forensic experience, combined with Sachs’s exceptional detective legwork, soon snare the perp. But even Rhyme can’t anticipate that Sachs will disagree with his crime analysis and that her vehemence will put her in the swampland, harboring the very suspect who Rhyme considers a ruthless killer. So ensues Rhyme’s greatest challenge—facing the criminalist whom he has taught everything he knows in a battle of wits, forensics, and intuition.
With the intricate forensic detail, breathtaking speed, and masterful plot twists that are signature Deaver, The Empty Chair is page-turning suspense of the highest order.
SALTSBURG FREE LIBRARY
STORY HOUR
NOVEMBER 18, 2025
6:00 – 7:00 PM
CHILDREN 3 YEARS TO 3RD GRADE
SALTSBURG FREE LIBRARY, 417 WALNUT ST., SALTSBURG, 724-702-0261
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Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 4-7pm, Wednesday & Saturday 10am-2pm
STORY HOUR
NOVEMBER 18, 2025
6:00 – 7:00 PM
CHILDREN 3 YEARS TO 3RD GRADE
SALTSBURG FREE LIBRARY, 417 WALNUT ST., SALTSBURG, 724-702-0261
[email protected], www.saltsburglibrary.com,
Facebook: Saltsburg Free Library
Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 4-7pm, Wednesday & Saturday 10am-2pm
