Gone

The incomparable team of Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis embark on their most dangerous excursion yet. Dylan Meserve and Michaela Brand, young lovers and fellow acting students, vanish on the way home from a rehearsal. Three days later, the two of them are found in the remote mountains of Malibubattered and terrified after a harrowing ordeal at the hands of a sadistic abductor. But before long, doubts arise about the couples story, and as forensic details unfold, the abduction is exposed as a hoax. The case is closedonly to be violently reopened when Michaela is savagely murdered. Casting their dragnet into the murkiest corners of L.A., Delaware and Sturgis unearth more questions than answersincluding a host of eerily identical killings. What really happened to the couple who cried wolf? And what bizarre and brutal epidemic is infecting the city with terror, madness, and sudden, twisted death?