#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Missing acting students Dylan and Michaela are found in the remote
mountains of Malibu, battered and terrified after a harrowing ordeal at
the hands of a sadistic abductor. But forensic evidence soon exposes the
incident as a hoax, and the kids are charged as criminals themselves.
"Kellerman shows why he is called the 'master of the psychological
thriller.'"--Orlando Sentinel
After examining Michaela, psychologist Alex Delaware is certain that
there's more to this sordid psychodrama, and his instincts prove dead-on
when she is savagely murdered. Casting their dragnet into the murkiest
corners of L.A., Delaware and homicide cop Milo Sturgis unearth more
questions than answers--and a host of eerily identical killings. What
bizarre and brutal epidemic is infecting the city with terror, madness,
and sudden, twisted death?