杰弗里·迪弗（Jeffery Deaver）　1950年出生于芝加哥，其父亲是广告文员，母亲则是普通的家庭主妇。杰弗里早在十一岁时即完成了个人的第一部小说，后在密苏里大学新闻系和福得汉姆法学院就读，他的作品陆续获得了包括安东尼小说奖和艾勒里·奎恩读书会奖等在内的文学大奖。杰弗里·迪弗1990年辞去在华尔街的律师事务所的工作，开始全职创作小说，以“林肯·莱姆系列”跻身畅销小说家之列。

A stunning new Lincoln Rhyme thriller takes Lincoln and Amelia on a journey of unbearable suspense, by the number one bestselling author.

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. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.