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Eighteen months have passed, however the scars the Ragdoll murders left behind are reopened on a daily basis, the legacy of the infamous investigation infecting all aspects of daily life. Regardless of the media's best efforts, copycat murders all over the planet are actually only violent mutilations by the unimaginative and deranged. Andrea Hall's memoirs are topping the charts, while Halloween saw children all over the country distastefully donning grotesque costumes of the real-life monster in their midst. The Ragdoll, apparently, was here to stay. Overpromoted in to the role of Chief Inspector following her focus on the situation, Emily Baxter is ill suitable for her new bureaucratic posting. Alex Edmunds won't admit it, but he is bored, too, having returned to his monotonous job in Fraud after fighting so hard to escape. When Baxter is summoned to a meeting with Special Agents Elliot Curtis of the FBI and Damien Rouche of the CIA, she actually is presented with graphic photographs of the latest copycat murder: a body contorted into a familiar pose, strung up impossibly over the Brooklyn Bridge, the word BAIT carved deep into its chest. The victim's name: William Fawkes, a Wall Street banker, giving a very clear message that murder is different to others. Baxter is ordered to aid the unrelentingly professional Curtis and the charmingly eccentric Rouche with the investigation, another PR exercise to appease the ever-demanding public. Accompanying these to New York and the scene of another murder, they find the same word scrawled over the victim, torn in to the assailant - the word PUPPET. The team helplessly play catch-up as the murders continue to grow in both spectacle and depravity on both sides of the Atlantic, building towards a devastating crescendo. Their only hope: to work out who the bait is supposed for, the way the Puppets are chosen and, most of all of all, who's holding the strings.
