About the book: 2024 / The long-awaited continuation of “The Puppet Show”! Jared Keaton, celebrity chef. He's charismatic. Incredibly smart. And...deadly dangerous. Anyone could be on the list of his victims. He is serving a life sentence for the brutal murder of his own daughter, Elizabeth. But her body was never found, all the evidence turned out to be circumstantial, and the dangerous psychopath went to jail only thanks to detective Washington Poe. And this could be the end of his story, but... Suddenly, a young woman comes to the police station with irrefutable evidence that she is Elizabeth Keaton, and then suddenly disappears. Poe's career is in the balance. But not only his job is under threat... Now he needs to quickly find an answer to a difficult question: how can a person be alive and dead at the same time? Tick ​​tock. Time has passed.