A dark and twisted crime novel, this is the eagerly anticipated follow up to The Puppet Show from award-winning author M. W. Craven.

Jared Keaton, chef to the stars. Charming. Charismatic. Psychopath . . . He's currently serving a life sentence for the brutal murder of his daughter, Elizabeth. Her body was never found and Keaton was convicted largely on the testimony of Detective Sergeant Washington Poe.

So when a young woman staggers into a remote police station with irrefutable evidence that she is Elizabeth Keaton, Poe finds himself on the wrong end of an investigation, one that could cost him much more than his career.

Helped by the only person he trusts, the brilliant but socially awkward Tilly Bradshaw, Poe races to answer the only question that matters: how can someone be both dead and alive at the same time?

And then Elizabeth goes missing again - and all paths of investigation lead back to Poe.


Praise for M W Craven:

'Fantastic' Martina Cole


'Gripping prose and fiendish plotting. Superb!' Craig Russell

Dark, thrilling and unputdownable with sharply drawn characters that stride off the page