THE CLOCKMAKER'S LIE

A dead judge. A vintage watch frozen at 11:42. And a secret the FBI buried ten years ago.

Ten years ago, FBI Supervisory Special Agent Julian Vance helped put Arthur Cross, the infamous Clockmaker Killer, in the lethal injection chamber.

The case was closed. The killer was dead. Vance's career was made.

Until federal judge Albert Sterling is found murdered inside an abandoned Newark watch factory, tied to a wooden chair with his throat cut in a scene of chilling precision.

On his wrist is a vintage Rolex Submariner. Its crystal is cracked. Its hands have stopped at 11:42.

Then Vance notices something that should be impossible.

Hidden inside the watch crown is a trace of crimson forensic chalk, a piece of classified holdback evidence that was never released to the public.

Evidence only the investigators and the dead Clockmaker Killer were supposed to know about.

Forced into an uneasy alliance with Dr. Evelyn Cross, a brilliant forensic pathologist and the executed killer's daughter, Vance begins digging into the murder.

What they uncover is far worse than a copycat.

• A Broken Timeline: People connected to the original Clockmaker investigation are dying in staged suicides and seemingly accidental deaths.
• A Buried Secret: Someone has access to details from the original case that should have died with Arthur Cross.
• An Enemy Inside the Bureau: Every clue Vance discovers seems to lead him exactly where someone wants him to go.
• A Race Against Time: Vance has just two weeks before the abandoned factory and the evidence hidden inside it are destroyed.

Someone is manipulating the investigation.

Someone knows what happened ten years ago.

And someone has been waiting for Julian Vance to come looking.

Now Vance must answer the question that could destroy everything he built his career upon:

Did the FBI put the right man in the execution chamber?

The Clockmaker's Lie is a dark psychological thriller packed with forensic investigation, serial killer mystery, federal conspiracy, hidden evidence, and a relentless race against time.

The clock is already ticking.

Read The Clockmaker's Lie and uncover the truth before 11:42.