{"product_id":"2940197021601","title":"The Watch That Stopped (The Last Box Mysteries, #4)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA stopped watch should tell you when something ended. This one proves somebody lied about when it began.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen estate clean-out specialist Nell is asked to sort through the workshop of recently deceased watchmaker Samuel Dyer, she finds something Samuel deliberately left for her: a silver pocket watch frozen at \u003cstrong\u003e2:17\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe same time his estranged former business partner, Frank Mercer, supposedly died at the marina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere's just one problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrank's phone called Samuel fourteen minutes later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamuel and Frank had once been best friends and partners in a clock-repair business, until a tragic 2003 accident during the restoration of Grayhaven's clock tower killed a young worker and destroyed their friendship. Now, more than twenty years later, the two men had begun meeting again-and arguing about what really happened that day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Nell and Piper follow Samuel's carefully planted clues, the simple timeline begins to fall apart. A clock stopped at the wrong time. A missing storage key. Old maintenance records. A brass counterweight that may-or may not-be evidence. And a family with very good reasons to keep the past from being examined too closely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen it becomes clear that Frank Mercer's death was no accident.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith Detective Adrian Shaw investigating and Nell discovering that clocks can lie just as effectively as people, she must reconstruct two timelines separated by decades-and figure out which piece of evidence everyone has been reading backward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause Samuel Dyer understood something most people forget:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe dial is only an opinion.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Watch That Stopped is Book Four of The Last Box Mysteries, a clean contemporary cozy mystery series featuring small-town secrets, an amateur sleuth, family history, light romance, and forgotten objects that refuse to stay forgotten.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grayhaven Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48802169487601,"sku":"2940197021601","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/2940197021601_p0.jpg?v=1789857935","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940197021601","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}