"When Special Agent Kathryn Dance - a brilliant interrogator and kinesics expert with the California Bureau of Investigation - is sent to question the convicted killer Daniel "Son of Manson" Pell as a suspect in a newly unearthed crime, she feels both trepidation and electrifying intrigue. Pell is serving a life sentence for the brutal murders of the wealthy Croyton family in Carmel years earlier - a crime mirroring those perpetrated by Charles Manson...

Country-pop ingenue, Kayleigh Towneś career is just reaching new heights with her huge hit single "Your Shadow",but increased fame is also bringing unwanted attention. Edwin Sharp thinks Kayleighś songs contain messages that speak directly to him. Then a potentially fatal accident occurs at the concert hall where Kayleigh is rehearsing for a triumphant hometown performance, and she is convinced that someone, maybe Edwin, was there watching her from...

On a freezing December night, with a full moon hovering in the black sky over New York City, two people are brutally murdered, the death scenes marked by moon-faced clocks investigators fear ticked away the victim's last moments on earth. Renowned criminologist Lincoln Rhyme immediately identifies the clock distributor and has the chilling realization that the killer who has dubbed himself the Watchmaker has more murders planned in the hours to come....