Book summary

In this installment of the bestselling thriller series starring psychologist Alex Delaware and homicide detective Milo Sturgis, an apparent hoax hides the motives behind an actual crime. After acting students Michaela Brand and Dylan Meserve disappear and then reappear three days later, they claim to have been kidnapped and abused by a carjacker. But questioning and the available evidence poke significant holes in their story, leading officials to charge the pair with inventing their tale. So what are Delaware and Sturgis to make of it when Michaela is murdered and Dylan vanishes again?