Clockwork Crime
(2025)(The fourth book in the Renovation and Homicide Mystery series)
A novel by Grace Greenwood and Maisy Marple
When the past refuses to stay buried, it's time to call in the experts—even if one of them has four paws and a talent for sniffing out trouble.
Zoey Parker thought her days of stumbling across skeletons were behind her. Settled into her renovated Victorian home in charming Pinecrest, she's built a thriving graphic design business and found contentment in small-town life with her golden retriever Max and detective boyfriend Jack Sullivan. So when the courthouse renovation uncovers human remains sealed behind a wall in the clock tower, Zoey plans to stick to creating promotional materials and leave the investigating to the professionals.
But Max has other ideas.
The skeleton belongs to Theodore Hamilton, a master clockmaker who vanished without a trace in 1952, leaving behind an intricate timepiece and a reputation for simply abandoning his work. As Zoey documents the renovation for the town, she discovers that Hamilton was far more than a vanishing craftsman—he was a man who died protecting the truth.
Hidden within the clock mechanism itself, Hamilton left behind evidence of corruption that reaches into Pinecrest's most respected families. Someone killed him to keep their secrets buried, then spent seventy years ensuring his story was never told. But Hamilton built his final masterpiece to outlast his murderer, and now his clockwork creation is ready to reveal the truth.
With Max's unerring instincts guiding the way and the courthouse's own dark history unfolding around them, Zoey must navigate family secrets, buried evidence, and a conspiracy that has shaped Pinecrest for generations. Because in a town where time has stood still, some secrets are worth killing for—and some truths are worth dying to protect.
Genre: Mystery
Zoey Parker thought her days of stumbling across skeletons were behind her. Settled into her renovated Victorian home in charming Pinecrest, she's built a thriving graphic design business and found contentment in small-town life with her golden retriever Max and detective boyfriend Jack Sullivan. So when the courthouse renovation uncovers human remains sealed behind a wall in the clock tower, Zoey plans to stick to creating promotional materials and leave the investigating to the professionals.
But Max has other ideas.
The skeleton belongs to Theodore Hamilton, a master clockmaker who vanished without a trace in 1952, leaving behind an intricate timepiece and a reputation for simply abandoning his work. As Zoey documents the renovation for the town, she discovers that Hamilton was far more than a vanishing craftsman—he was a man who died protecting the truth.
Hidden within the clock mechanism itself, Hamilton left behind evidence of corruption that reaches into Pinecrest's most respected families. Someone killed him to keep their secrets buried, then spent seventy years ensuring his story was never told. But Hamilton built his final masterpiece to outlast his murderer, and now his clockwork creation is ready to reveal the truth.
With Max's unerring instincts guiding the way and the courthouse's own dark history unfolding around them, Zoey must navigate family secrets, buried evidence, and a conspiracy that has shaped Pinecrest for generations. Because in a town where time has stood still, some secrets are worth killing for—and some truths are worth dying to protect.
Genre: Mystery
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