傑弗裏·迪弗（Jeffery Deaver）　1950年齣生於芝加哥，其父親是廣告文員，母親則是普通的傢庭主婦。傑弗裏早在十一歲時即完成瞭個人的第一部小說，後在密蘇裏大學新聞係和福得漢姆法學院就讀，他的作品陸續獲得瞭包括安東尼小說奬和艾勒裏·奎恩讀書會奬等在內的文學大奬。傑弗裏·迪弗1990年辭去在華爾街的律師事務所的工作，開始全職創作小說，以“林肯·萊姆係列”躋身暢銷小說傢之列。

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.