Los Angeles is full of actors.

For psychologist Alex Delaware, finding out what''s real and what''s not is about to become a matter of life and horrific death ...

Called in to evaluate an aspiring actress accused - along with her boyfriend - of staging her own abduction, Alex is indifferent when the case seems to go nowhere. But then the girl is savagely murdered, and suddenly a straightforward script takes a decidedly unexpected turn. Dylan Meserve, the victim''s boyfriend, has also disappeared ...

Is Dylan a deranged killer, or another victim? Alex and detective Milo Sturges begin auditioning suspects and trawling the depths of LA''s seedy underbelly. Then more dead wannabes start turning up ...