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Detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware are drawn into a high‑stakes investigation when fellow acting students Dylan Meserve and Michaela Brand disappear after a rehearsal. Found months later in the remote mountains of Malibu, the couple insists they were abducted and tortured, but forensic evidence points to a hoax. Complicating the case, Michaela is murdered and Dylan goes missing. Delhi and Sturgis follow a trail of troubling similarities between these deaths and other unsolved murders in Los Angeles, probing the psychological motives that lie beneath the surface.
First publish date: 2006
Genre: Thriller/Psychological Thriller
Authors: Jonathan Kellerman
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