The Cold Moon: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel (Lincoln Rhyme Novels)

On a frigid December night, an eerie pattern emerges from two equally brutal murder scenes, where a killer’s calling card is a moon-faced clock that seemingly ticked away the victims’ last moments. From his wheelchair, criminologist Lincoln Rhyme tracks the Watchmaker, a time-obsessed genius. With every passing second, the Watchmaker is moving with razor-sharp precision to his next act of perfectly orchestrated violence—and Rhyme can’t afford to have his trusted partner, Amelia Sachs, distracted by a daunting homicide case of her own. Up against a brilliant madman, Rhyme and Sachs are locked in a blood-chilling race with their deadliest enemy: time itself. . . .

lincoln Rhyme Recognizes The Calling Card Of The Notorious Watchmaker—and Realizes That The Killer Has More Murders Planned In The Hours To Come.

the New York Times - Marilyn Stasio

the Pyrotechnics Of The Murder Plot Are Dazzling On Their Own Terms, But In The Great Scheme Of Things, As The Watchmaker Puts It, Time Itself Is The Subject Of The Story. In Observing How A Calamitous Event Like The Destruction Of The World Trade Center Can Establish New Indexes Of Timekeeping (the Before And After Syndrome), Deaver Argues That Stopping Time In Its Tracks Is A Madman's Ruse For Stopping Life Itself.

Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs have only hours to stop the brilliant, icy-cold serial killer known as the Watchmaker, whose obsession with time drives him to plan his carnage with the precision of a fine timepiece