The Clockmaker’s Murder (Emma Langley Victorian Mystery #5)

A murdered clockmaker. A stolen masterpiece. An observatory full of secrets.

London, 1889. When elderly clockmaker Horace Whitby is found bludgeoned to death in his workshop at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, suspicion falls on the woman who discovered his body – Charlotte Mellor, who makes her living selling the time, carrying her pocket watch from banks to shipping offices each day to keep London’s clocks in step with Greenwich.

Convinced of Charlotte’s innocence, Emma Langley and her friend Penny Green begin their own investigation. But Charlotte has not been entirely truthful with them – and the world of the Royal Observatory is far more secretive than it appears. Behind its gates lie bitter professional rivalries, a decades-old family feud, and whispers of a clock so valuable that powerful men have been scheming over it for years.

As Emma and Penny dig deeper, they attract dangerous attention. Someone has been watching them. And not everyone investigating Whitby’s murder wants the truth to come out…

Emma Langley returns in this enthralling Victorian mystery – a tale of ambition, betrayal and murder in the shadow of the Royal Observatory.