Head on a Silver Platter

The death of the famous writer Michael Barkley was horrific. He was stabbed multiple dozens of times, then decapitated, and his head was placed on a silver platter. At the same time, Hollywood star Sharon Moore disappears. A blood-written inscription... 'Help!' is found in her home, along with words in a notebook: 'If this continues, a monster will kidnap and kill me.' Then someone described by witnesses as a 'bald monster with a bloodied face' begins to abduct children from families of esteemed filmmakers. Such abductions and a similar creature are described in Barkley's novel that was completed just before his death… And thousands of kilometers away from Los Angeles, a peculiar set floats in the salty waters of the Dead Sea. Here, they are filming 'Salome' - a blockbuster based on a biblical theme about the princess who demanded the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter. It was she who was to be played by the missing Sharon Moore. Events in Hollywood are clearly connected to this location shoot, but how? Only the brilliant Japanese detective Kiyoshi Mitarai, a friend of actress Leona Matsuzaki, who will take on the role of Salome instead of the missing actress, can figure it out…