一具屍體，六名被害者；一張殺人預告清單。
一場宛如貓捉老鼠的死亡遊戲。

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一具屍體，六名被害者。
凶手寄給媒體一張清單，預告下一次犯罪的「材料」。
沒有人比警探沃夫更想逮到這位布娃娃殺手，
因為他是名單上的最後一人。

綽號「沃夫」的警探威廉．佛克斯是個令長官頭痛的麻煩人物，情緒管理不佳的他曾在法庭上出拳毆打無罪釋放的被告，只因沃夫強烈認定對方百分之百是殺人凶手、全靠辯護律師對自己的栽贓抹黑才得以脫身。重回警界的沃夫這次得好好收斂脾氣，擔任保護「預告中的被害者」工作──這一切，得從幾天前聲名大噪的「布娃娃殺手」所犯下的凶行說起。

老舊公寓的挑高房間裡懸吊著一具屍體，卻是由六名被害人的部分身軀縫綴而成，消息一出立刻引發廣泛的討論與恐慌：這六名死者是誰？凶手為何要做出如此殘暴異常的行為？

此時，新聞臺記者收到一封來信，裡頭夾有命案現場照和一份列有六個姓名的清單，每個名字後面都標註了日期，顯然是凶手的犯罪預告：這六個人將會是犯人製作下一具「布娃娃」的材料，而第一位受害者的死亡截止時間只剩不到二十四小時──這個人竟是大名鼎鼎的倫敦市長！

即使用盡各種周延的保護方式，倫敦警方仍阻擋不了凶手惡魔般的精巧殺戮，甚至懷疑是否有內應相助。這是一場宛如貓捉老鼠的死亡遊戲，眼見清單上的活人愈來愈少，名列最後一人的警探沃夫的處境也愈來愈艱困，逼迫他的不只是上級給予的壓力與攸關性命的危機，還包括了他得正面迎擊的黑暗記憶……


William Fawkes, a controversial detective known as The Wolf, has just been reinstated to his post after he was suspended for assaulting a vindicated suspect. Still under psychological evaluation, Fawkes returns to the force eager for a big case.

When his former partner and friend, Detective Emily Baxter, calls him to a crime scene, he’s sure this is it: the body is made of the dismembered parts of six victims, sewn together like a puppet—a corpse that becomes known as “The Ragdoll.”

Fawkes is tasked with identifying the six victims, but that gets dicey when his reporter ex-wife anonymously receives photographs from the crime scene, along with a list of six names, and the dates on which the Ragdoll Killer plans to murder them.

The final name on the list is Fawkes.

Baxter and her trainee partner, Alex Edmunds, hone in on figuring out what links the victims together before the killer strikes again. But for Fawkes, seeing his name on the list sparks a dark memory, and he fears that the catalyst for these killings has more to do with him—and his past—than anyone realizes.

With a breakneck pace, a twisty plot, and a wicked sense of humor, Ragdoll announces the arrival of the hottest new brand in crime fiction.