[Alex Delaware 20] • Gone

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jonathan Kellerman's *Guilt.*

**#1 *NEW YORK TIMES *BESTSELLER**

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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?