The Twelfth Card (Lincoln Rhyme Novels, book 6) by Jeffery Deaver

The story starts out in a museum where Geneva Settle, a high-school student in Harlem, is researching information for a paper about her ancestor, Charles Singleton. While she is looking at an old newspaper, Thompson Boyd, an unfeeling, professional killer, attempts to murder her.

Genre: Thriller, Novel, Crime Fiction, Mystery