Gone by Jonathan Kellerman

Two wannabe actors stage their abduction, get caught, and a few days later the young woman is dead. As homicide detective Milo Sturgis and Alex Delaware try to figure out whodunit, I had a pretty good idea who was responsible as the bodies kept turning up. And talk about a wacko family that’s introduced! The story is not exciting; it just plods along and should have ended with the killer’s death. But there is a happy note in Alex’s life.

Hopefully the author will put some life into his next Alex Delaware story…if there is another one. They just aren’t quite as exciting as they used to be.