When Leo's wife Laura inexplicably vanishes one day in London, it soon becomes apparent she is the latest victim of the Vacation Killer. But unlike his other victims, her body was never found. John R Bookwalter is a man who claims to be the Vacation Killer and has achieved a cult following on the Internet but has been dismissed by police as a crank because he has never left the state of Louisiana. Yet with Bookwalter exerting so much power with his website, how can Leo dismiss him as a mere prankster? And how can he disregard his claims that he still has Laura captive? Or ignore his invitation to come find her? Virral marketing campaign to tie into the sinister email chain letters that the killer uses.