mitabird
Written on Dec 11, 2008
It's the night of the full Cold Moon -- the month of December according to the lunar calendar. A young man is found dead in lower Manhattan, the first in a series of victims of a man calling himself the Watchmaker. This killer's obsession with time drives him to plan the murders with the precision of fine timepieces, and the victims die prolonged deaths while an eerie clock ticks away their last minutes on earth. Lincoln Rhyme, Amelia Sachs and the rest of the crew are tapped to handle the case and stop the Watchmaker and his partner, Vincent Reynolds, a repulsive character with a special interest in the female victims of the killer. Amelia is not only Lincoln's eyes and ears at crime scenes on the Watchmaker case, but she's now running her own homicide investigation--her first case as lead detective. The policewoman's unwavering efforts in pursuing the killers of a businessman, who left behind a wife and son, sets into motion clockwork gears of its own, with consequences reaching to people and events that will endanger not only many lives but Lincoln's and Amelia's future together.
- ISBN10 0743296788
- ISBN13 9780743296786
- Publish Date 26 June 2006 (first published 30 May 2006)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 11 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Simon & Schuster
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 416
- Language English
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