改编自绫辻行人创作的同名畅销小说,讲述了编辑江南孝明(奥智哉 饰)与同事前往神秘宅邸“钟表馆”采访灵异事件,却在封闭空间中卷入连环杀人案。同时,推理作家鹿谷门实(青木崇高 饰)也介入调查,共同揭开宅邸与过去惨剧的真相。
Lewis returns to Oxford after several years absence and is reluctantly assigned by his new boss, DCS Innocent, to the murder of an Oxford mathematics student who was shot while participating in a sleep study. The key-code used to access the sleep lab was assigned to a fellow maths student, Daniel Griffin, but Daniel's math tutor has provided him with an alibi. Daniel is a maladjusted young man who will soon inherit his father's automotive empire. He is disruptive and has no respect for his uncle who now heads the company. The future of the company however rests on an impending deal with Japanese investors who insist that family unity is all important at this time. When two other murder occurs, Lewis must decipher a cryptic clue left in an old case file by his former boss, Chief Inspector Morse.